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Day 1 From the Douglass Hut follow the lakeside path in either direction as far as the Lünersee Alm where there’s a signed junction. Take the upper path climbing into a hanging valley, and keep ahead at the next junction 5mins later. (The right branch goes to the Cavelljoch on the Swiss border – see Route 4.) Aiming for the Verajöchl the path rises alongside a little stream leaking through pastures. Ignore a second path branching right to the Cavelljoch, continue ahead and cross the stream by footbridge, then skirt a marshy basin fluffed with cotton grass.

Passing below an abandoned customs hut, the way climbs left into an upper region littered with rocks and boulders, then becomes more grassy on the final approach to the 2330m Verajöchl. From the saddle a splendid view ahead shows the great gash of the Schweizertor cleaving the limestone wall that runs from the Kirchlispitzen to the Drusenfluh. Looking back the Schesaplana is equally impressive.

Descend grass slopes on the east side of the saddle to another one-time customs hut close to the Schweizertor at 2137m, then keep ahead to climb through a narrow grass valley below the contorted limestone of the Drusenfluh, and gain the 2291m Ofapass about 40mins from the Verajöchl. The Lindauer Hut can now be seen below to the east, and a sign suggests a rather generous 1hr 15mins to get there.