Tourist - Stupid Bastards on the Dachstein
Sat 28 Jul 1990
Jeremy Rodgers
Results:
Summary: 20 miles, 8000 feet of ascent & 8000 descent, T/o/f: 13 hrs
Jeremy Rodgers
Plan:
- Get up early
- Set off from Halstatt
- Walk in to Simony Hütte
- Sleep
- Get up early
- Walk to top & back down again
Results:
- Got up early
- left Halstatt (-us one radio battery) at 9-30 am
- Walked ridiculously fast for 4½ hrs & found [?] at Simony Hütte
- Rested for ½ hr while letching at local talent & decided to go for the top hut despite Jeremy feeling a bit squiffy in the 'far too much' heat.
- Went for it & only took ¾ of hr to reach hut, so went for top (without using any of our nice ice gear) - Jeremy really f***ed.
- Got to Hütte & found it was full (6.00pm). "Oh, dear"! - "Oh well, lets go for it" - "but isn't that a bit silly?" - "Yes" - "Just checking"
- Run across bit of glacier & bloody hill in way (another 100-200 metres !!) - Jeremy really completely fuck*d.
- Stopped at top of hill, ate dinner, realised had no bloody water (oh god!) & radioed down to paralytic Julian at base camp - praise Philips in the high (whatever that means?).
- Walked/ran down to the next hütte hallucinating about water, got some strange looks when we got there.
- Ran down next bit until it got dark
- Jeremy forgotten zoom (yet another light failure for the intrepid duo!) & we got lost.
- Found road at bottom & managed to meet others thanks to radios
- Shagged
Summary: 20 miles, 8000 feet of ascent & 8000 descent, T/o/f: 13 hrs