Duca egli Abruzzi hut

 

Amazingly, I found the camp Glair, the campground, about 10 k down the road. I slept 10 hours, the sun hitting the yellow tent, did a little climbing at the local crag on a self belay, then packed for a few hours. I had a lot of gear to take up, including a rope, a tent,  boots, crampons, climbing gear and so on.  I used my 85 liter pack, and still I had to attach some things to the side of it. I started up the trail on the very hot afternoon, with the pack that I could barely lift, about 80 lbs.  I could barely walk under the weight, I was jet lagged.  I went for a ways, then came back down.  I knew there was a jeep taxi somewhere that could take me to Duca egli Abruzzi hut, and after all, I had already covered that ground the day before. I found the jeep, and at 6:00 PM he drove me up, the price was 100 Euro, but he must have felt sorry for me and charged me only 90. At the hut, I tried to get some information about the climb, a Swiss man who spoke a little English just pointed to the poster on the door of the Abruzzi, and his girlfriend scoffed at my intention to climb the mountain alone. She scoffed!  Well, I was feeling a little lonely, no one to talk to, I set up my tent in the meadow, scouted the next morning’s trail  and then went to sleep.

This is the Duca egli Abruzzi "hut".  And my yellow tent, below Il Cervino 4478 M ((14, 691 feet).