Piz Ault, Val Medel

We start our tour in Pardé, a small village on the Lukmanier pass road. For the first few minutes we hike on an asphalt improvement road, which we leave shortly after a stone wall on the left. We now climb through forest, across meadows and past pretty Maiensässen to Ziegenalp Puzzetta. The modern building surprises with its red color, but we agree that it fits well into the landscape and is very photogenic. We hike along a mountain side and only moderately uphill into the Val la Buora. At the bottom right we see the stony stream bed where the waters of the Davos la Buora glacier flow into the valley. Then we look up and mentally prepare ourselves for the fact that we now have to climb around three hundred meters in altitude, practically straight up, to Fuorcla dalla Buora.

Once at the top, this transition into Val Medel is still in the shadows, so that the view of the Medelser Glacier that opens up almost blinds us a little. The ridge that follows is alternately wide and overgrown with grass and heather, then again demanding and interspersed with rocky passages. And it goes up and down until we can finally enjoy the view at point 2479, next to the big stone man. The valleys with their villages and districts lie far below us and the 360 degree mountain panorama is impressively peppered with snow-covered peaks. On the descent we pass a hut with a fireplace and a fountain in Crap Stagias, then we soon see down to our starting point, Pardé.

At the cottage in Crap Stagias it has a fire pit, table with bench and a fountain with fresh spring water.

In Pardé we follow the trail signalling towards Fuorcla dalla Buora. On a paved road we hike uphill until we reach the junction of the hiking trail shortly after the Steinwall, at a small stream. Now it goes steeply up to the left and immediately over a bridge again right. We are now on the hiking trail to Alp Puzzetta and again and again we find white/red markings. At Alp Puzzetta we make sure that we catch the upper one, the two hiking trails leading into the Val la Buora. This leads us first flat, then slightly uphill into the valley. On the way we cross a stony stream bed, after which we soon go up to the Fuorcla in very short bends. On the Fuorcla we turn left onto the ridge. Now we stay on the ridge and follow the path until we meet a road. We walk a few minutes south on the road until we meet a hiking trail again. This leads us above Pardé to a Maiensäss at the point 1703. We turn right and follow the path we came in the morning until we reach Pardé