September 3

Back into Switzerland to Binntal
IMG 4959-2  Day 3 sees Jeremy up early to capture the sunrise on the L. Vannino 20130903-0153-2  Will captures our group before we start off Sept13 5  Crossing streams running into the lake 20130903-0155-2  Then climbing above what look like a lake of paint
IMG 0856-2  Will on the way up to Scatta Minoia Sept13 6  Just a bit of snow at the top of the pass DSCN9265-2  A boquetin in the crags above the pass IMG 0865-2  Rosalie, Sarah and Bruce obscuring the route ahead
Image 30-2  the huge Alpe Forno DSCN9271-2  Alpine wetlands IMG 0870-2  The barns and hut at Alpe Forno DSCN9275-2  We are still in Italy
IMG 0871-2  We climb toward Albrunpass IMG 0873-2  Lago di Dévero below us CIMG3296-2  Leo and lake IMG 0550-2  Bruce crossing over the Albrunpass
20130903-0166-2  Will and borne DSCN9281  The hut was hidden from us. IMG 4977  the sesquicentennial of CAS IMG 4978-2  Our destination on day 3: Binntalhutte, run by Francophones from the Jura
IMG 0876-2  We arrived here in the early afternoon IMG 0878-2  so after regrouping we did separate things 20130903-0170-2  some did laundry and 20130903-0168-2  stared down Binntal
CIMG3303-2  Others went on an outing up to some caves DSCN9288  while others reconnoitered the next day's route DSCN9294  Wetlands below the hut which DSCN9289-2  eventually drain over this falls
DSCN9291  The next day's Plan B runs across the photo DSCN9292-2  Binntalhutte from the Binntal side DSCN9293-2  Binntalhutte IMG 0880-2  The crew had moved to a different bench
IMG 0881-2  but the m.o. was the same! IMG 4982  This continued on after dinner IMG 0883-2  and into the evening IMG 0887-2  starting with this board game
IMG 0889-2  but this was just the beginning of a long evening for some! folderimage folderthumb