Two friends and I had decided to go on a short hiking holiday during Pentecost (a.k.a. Whit Sun) which is a two day holiday in the Netherlands. We stayed at a lovely mountain lodge called Berggasthaus Sücka. We started the hike at 08:00 in the morning temp was about 3-5C, partly in the clouds. We marched towards Gapfahl where we crossed some snow fields and saw lovely little flowers. So far a T1 route. After Gapfal the path was somewhat unclear because there were more snow fields. A few red marked sticks however marked the route upwards until we reached the saddle between the Rappastein and Goldlochspitz. Now we turned left and crossed some rocks (T2) after which the path continued across some fields. Again part of those were covered with up to 50cm of snow. Close to the ridge it was clear and after about 20 minutes we reached the summit with poor visibility.

The weather that day was changing very rapidly. One moment you were in the clouds with visibility <100m, a minute or so later you could see 30-40km towards the Bodensee under blue skies... Magnificent views! At some point it also snowed... it never rained up there. That started on the way back after Gapfahl in the Valuna valley.