Planura Hütte, Switzerland

The morning after the short night at the beautiful but very busy Planura Hütte was rewarding: the sun was lightening the alps from the north-eastern horizon and the cold night wind made the snowy surface of the glacier freeze. After walking along the "Kolk" (wall of hard snow at the edge of the glacier) our bones got warm again and we continued towards the Clariden. My friends decided to climb up the steep glacier field to the top - myself I felt safer on the glacier plateau. When we reached the end of the glacier the temperature was again up and we enjoyed a hot August day. We had another rest at the Clariden Hütte, then we decended to the Fisetenpass ropeway and returned to Urnerboden and took the scenic Postauto bus route back to Klausenpass.