Roter Stein

We had planned to climb Daniel, but given the lack of wind forecast and the high temperatures, decided that a large day fully spent on a south facing slope may have been a bit unpleasant, so we diverted to climb another mountain which has been on my todo list for a while, the Roter Stein which started from Berwang.

The route was a there and back route, which took us up a beautiful valley before climbing steeply up to a spur of the Roter Stein which then took us to the summit. The walk up the valley in the morning was hot, with absolutely no wind, baking sunshine and ascent. There was also surprisingly still some snow, but it was almost impossible to detect as snow as it was covered with tree debris, so it only looked like snow when you really looked at it hard and from the side.

As we climbed out of the valley three things happened, firstly as we left the lush green valley the humidity dropped, secondly we were greeted by a welcome breeze and thirdly the views started to open up. The views kept improving as we got higher and we soon arrived at the summit. From here we had a wonderful 360 degree panorama which we soaked in while we ate our lunch and cooled down from the ascent.

Cautious that we didn‘t want to be heading down the valley too late in the afternoon heat, we soon headed off on the descent, which was beautiful, as while descending we were looking out and able to admire the beautiful view. Thankfully as we descended into the valley it wasn‘t as hot as we thought it might be, as there was now a valley breeze and also the sun had moved around so there was some shade which wasn‘t there on the way up.