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Sulzfluh, seen from Sporeralpe near the Lindauer Hut

With the hut in sight virtually all the way, the path descends steeply in places, with the Drusenfluh’s rock scenery growing more impressive with each step. Shortly after passing a very small alm hut, wander past the complex of buildings of Obere Sporalpe to reach the Lindauer Hut, about 3½hrs from the Douglass Hut.

The Category I Lindauer Hut (1744m) has 60 beds in rooms and 140 dormitory places, is staffed from the end of February to the end of March, and from June to mid-October (tel 0664 5033456 www.lindauerhuette.at). A notable alpine garden is located next to it.

Day 2 The second stage of the tour is also short (3hrs 15mins), but full of interest and notable for the long, steep ascent of the Bilkengrat. It begins by following a signed path heading east. This becomes a track, and when it curves left you continue ahead on a footpath sloping down among bilberry, dwarf pine and alpenrose, then twisting through light pinewoods with the big walls of the Sulzfluh towering overhead. Edging below these walls the way forks at the entrance to a hanging valley.