"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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Mathias Zehring - Mar 22, 2006 6:06 am Date Climbed: Mar 20, 2006
SporatobelWe did not chose the usual ascent but the route to Drusentor pass. There a traverse leads to the saddle behind Sporaturm. Snow was hard here because of downhill skiers the days before. So this part above some steep rocks was dangerous, but no real problem with ski crampons. Along the upper Sporatobel to the ridge and via the final slope to the summit with great views to all directions. Downhill was fine but no fresh snow because of hundreds of skiers the days before. At app. 2050m we stopped, puttet furs on again and climbed the more western slopes of Eiskar up to app. 2515m. (route to Drusenfluh) Only some ski tracks here, so this was a better downhill as a finish of a fine day.