{"id":19911,"date":"2012-04-05T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:25:47","slug":"ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski tour to Monte Rosa Hut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Neil and I decided to go up to stay the night at the New Monte Rosa Hut.<br \/>\nThe weather was fantastic and we skied the Schwarztour down to the Gornerglacier.<br \/>\nIt was 10 days since it snowed so the decent was more like pist skiing, but of course<br \/>\nwith less people and a beautiful scenery.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6330\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/touring-up-to-monte-rosa-hut-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6330 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Touring-up-to-Monte-Rosa-Hut-1-404x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAt the bottom we met some other mountineers with heavy back packs heading<br \/>\ntowards the hut.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6214\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/img_2201\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6263\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/img_2200\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6263 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2200-404x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlmost there we passed the Zwillings Glacier where it meets the Grenz Glacier.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6264\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/img_1141-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6264 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_11411-404x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe got to the Hut and had a nice afternoon in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The hut is almost like a hotel nowadays with toilets and shower in the hut, heating and<br \/>\nsingle bunkbeds intead of the dorms that was the only option in the old hut.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6265\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/img_1158\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6265 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1158-404x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe food was nice and we had a good view of the sun going down behind Matterhorn.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6349\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/morning-at-monte-rosa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6349 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Morning-at-monte-rosa-404x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe alarm went of at 4 am and we set off at 5.15 am with our head torches.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6350\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/img_4402\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6350 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_4402-404x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI love the mornings in the mountains. It was a clear night, so calm and walking<br \/>\nis almost meditative. Then the sun rises and you are surrounded by beautiful peaks.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6274\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/4000-meters-toppar-vid-monte-rosa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6274 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4000-meters-toppar-vid-Monte-Rosa-404x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe made it to the 4200 m then I was to tired to continue. From there we had a good<br \/>\nview of many of the surrounding 4000 m peaks. Breithorn 4164 m, Lyskamm 4527 m,<br \/>\nMatterhorn 4478 m and Nordend 4609 m.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6281\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/skiing-down-monte-rosa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6281   alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Skiing-down-Monte-Rosa-271x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we skied down. Starting off a bit hard and icy&#8230;, but in the end we found some<br \/>\nsurprisingly nice snow  : )<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6298\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/ski-tour-to-monte-rosa-hut\/mvi_2256-2\/\">MVI_2256<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep Touring!<\/p>\n<p>\/Anna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Neil and I decided to go up to stay the night at the New Monte Rosa Hut. The weather was fantastic and we skied the Schwarztour down to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}