Piz Ault im Val Medel

We start our tour in Pardé, a small village on the Lukmanier pass road. The first minutes we walk on a paved melioration road, which we leave shortly after a stone wall on the left. We almost missed the turnoff! We now ascend through forest, over meadows and past pretty mountain pastures to the Ziegenalp Puzzetta. The modern building surprises with its red color, but we agree that it fits well into the landscape and is very photogenic. Along a mountain flank and only moderately ascending we hike into the Val la Buora, at the bottom right we see the stony stream bed, where the waters of the glaci Davos la Buora flow to the valley. Then we look up and we mentally prepare ourselves for the fact that we now have to overcome about three hundred meters of altitude, practically thread-straight up, to the Fuorcla dalla Buora.

Once at the top, this transition to Val Medel is still in the shade, so that the freed-up view of the Medels Glacier almost dazzles us a little. The following ridge is alternately wide and overgrown with grass and erika, then again demanding and interspersed with rocky passages. And it goes up and down until we can finally enjoy the view at point 2479, next to the big Steinmann. The valleys with their villages and fractions are far below us and the 360 degree mountain panorama is impressively peppered with snow-capped peaks. On the descent we pass in Crap Stagias at a hut with fireplace and fountain, then we soon look down to our starting point Pardé.