Hiking guide Chlasi Salzgeber believes that you have only been to a place if you have been there on foot.
It used to be said that hiking without a hiking map is a mortal sin. Today, Chlasi Salzgeber astonishes me with the statement that you can simply leave the hiking map at home.
The huts I stayed in couldn’t be more different: mass processing in the comfortable Schesaplanahütte, lots of charm, but only the bare essentials in the Carschinahütte.
“Bergmanndli” Andres Scherrer wanted to persuade me to go on a climbing tour on the Sulzfluh. But as I was still pretty exhausted from the 10-hour tour on the Schesaplana, I decided not to be on the via ferrata at 6 a.m.
Bergmanndli Andreas Scherrer
Instead of taking the via ferrata, we wanted to take the less steep Austrian side to the Sulzfluh, but had to turn back because the summit was threateningly covered by clouds. On the way back to Partnunsee, we discovered an incredibly diverse world of flowers that made the hearts of the botanists among us beat faster: In the Sulzfluh mountain hut (built in 1875), we had a hearty Swiss dinner: “Chäsgetschätter”, cooked on the charcoal stove by an Iranian chef…
An Iranian cooks.
At Martin Phillipp’s on the Alp Partnun I was able to watch how alpine cheese is made:
Alp Partnunchäs