Roland and a group from the DAV Freiburg turned up in the morning and we headed to Montafon. We took the Vermuntbahn up to Biehlehoehe. From there we headed off into the mountains with blue sky and sunshine. I sweated like crazy and wished i was wearing ski pants that could be unzipped.
As we climbed though, the clouds came in until the peak we had intended to climb had vanished. The visibility continued to decline and we decided to head directly over the Totenfeldscharte to the Jamtalhuette instead.
We reached the Totenfeldscharte. The temperature had dropped dramatically, visibility was very low, it was windy, bits of snow fell out of the sky and blew past us. The descent didn’t look as friendly as expected. A lip of snow jutting out from the ridge into the air had formed and it looked steep below.
Lucky Roland and Dagmer were prepared and packed out the ropes and set up an anchor. We took turns abseiling off the ridge to the slopes below. It turned out that it was only a short section where we really needed the rope. The low visibility had made things look more difficult than they were.
One we finished abseiling we skied down over the glacier in fairly average snow conditions. We made it down to the jamtalhuette though with only a few face fulls of snow between us. We arrived in time for dinner and for some of the grouchy service/stinginess that I remember from previous years.
Before the visibility dropped the sky was blue and the sun did shine.
The descent from the Totenfeldscharte.
