Sun., Aug 23: Piz Nair loop

Post date: Aug 24, 2009 3:08:19 PM

41 years ago, on Aug 23rd, I met my wife on the 1st day of college at the Freshman orientation. Two years later we married. I am the luckiest man alive!

LaPunt -> St Moritz (15 minutes). 3 cable cars (4000' elev gain) to 9963'.

• Scrambled to summit (10,050), then descended on west face to Suvretta Pass.
• Descended N. down picturesque Suvretta da Semedan (valley) to jct. with Val Bever.
• Then down to Spinas (5800') and N. again across the high path back to LaPunt.
• Mountain bikers descending from Pass at the same time. We took turns passing each other over the next 3 miles.
  • Steep rocky switchbacks and nasty river crossings. They had to carry their bikes.
  • Simple boulder hopping on foot, so had no problem moving right by them.
  • Hit base of valley at Alp Suvretta (6900') at the same time.

Note: at breakfast we observed a 220km bike race (over 900 riders) came screaming by. Very impressive.

14 miles with 5000 foot elev difference. 4 hours moving time, 5 hours total. Avg 3.7mph.