13/06/2024
La Porta del Cel - Day 2.
This was adventure pure and we named one of the sections the death hill…
Everything started fine, we set off from the first hut eager to climb 1500m in elevation and descend about 700m. The way took us through beautiful valleys past horses, waterfalls and creeks and the views got better as we climbed the meters.
Then we got to more scrambling parts and after an extremely painful water crossing (so cold 🥶 it actually hurt the feet), and a beautiful lunch spot, we got to snow. The first snow fields were still interrupted by grass islands but soon we had to mount the crampons on the shoes to manage the slopes. And as if finding the way wasn’t hard enough yet the fog rolled in as well. We could hardly see, especially were never sure if there was running water below the snow we stepped on. Scary! But after 3h of that we finally reached the hut 🛖