Second last week

On Monday we set off to Drei Zinnen once again. It was with Markus this time, through Talschlusshütte. We should have had a climbing course but apparently Markus remembered the day wrong, so we had the whole day to do what we liked. We started the journey from a parking lot near Talschlusshütte. We took a route around the mountain in the south of the hütte. The weather was pretty cloudy but there were a lot of people hiking.

We stopped at first in Zsigmondyhütte where Aino had something to eat and we continued to Büllelejochhütte. From there tho Drei Zinnen hütte the route was familiar to us, so we walked it quickly. Markus took some photos and we kept on going so it wouldn't have felt so cold.

"SMILE"

The way back was easy and we ate again back in Talschlusshütte. Even though the weather wasn't really on our side the trip was fun and we'll be taking the climbing course next Tuesday!

During the week we have been a lot in Bruneck, working in front of the computer. We have completed (finally) a few exercise packs for Markus and made a little slideshow for his little screen that will be placed in the reception of the hotel. We have also planned the rest of our stay here so that Markus has time to check the Sports therapy tasks we have completed (there's four of them). We will also be having a little feedback discussion of our stay in here with Markus before we'll be heading back to Finland.

Snow wall swallowing Gleb

On Friday we took another little hiking trip to mountain Helm. It's a mountain situated on the boarder of Italy and Austria. We felt a bit lazy (the closer we are coming back to Finland the lazier we feel) so we took Markus' car to Sexten and even took a ski lift up to the mountain. Up there we walked to Sillianerhütte which was four kilometers away from the ski lift station. There was only a little ascent so the route wasn't bad at all, but the weather wasn't on our side this time either. The whole mountain was literally inside of a cloud so we couldn't see the beautiful landscape.

A little stone marking the border.

We walked down on a route that was surprisingly long and full of scary animals we had to avoid. There was one electric fence that we had to turn down before crossing it and turn it on again afterwards - all the while being watched by the bloodthirsty mammals.

Another peak reached!

We had an umbrella with us the whole time due to the threatening clouds hanging on the mountain; it even rained a bit, but we didn't feel like using it so we just carried it around classically. According to Markus and some locals it has been a very cold summer. Some hüttes are almost "depressed" because there's not enough tourists visiting and even in southern Italy there has been 17% less tourism.

But the weather has not affected on our adventures that much - maybe we would have taken even more hiking trips if the weather had allowed. But we feel happy and extremely lucky just to be here, in the middle of the mountains for one more week.

Fearless Aino asks the terrible beast which way we should continue.