The unavoidable long road walk to access the snow took quite some time up another South Tyrolean valley, the Valser Tal. This allowed us to soak up the peace of this agricultural area, the top end of which had some enormous quantities of avalanche debris, long before we got to the snow itself. By now it was hot and we had some debate about the exact line to take up the SW facing ground, but in the end we decided the terrain was largely stripped of snow on this side, but luckily on the summer footpath there had just enough snow to skin up.