We’re happy to see the breakfast buffet has not changed since last year: basically, just about anything you could want except Eggs Benedict. Satisfied, we walk into town to get our Gardena Pass 6-day lift tickets and find we have to wait in quite a line (last year, the four of us had the ticket office to ourselves for a half hour.

We use our pass to take the same easy gentle walk to Alpa de Suisa that we took last year. The mountainsides of dense green conifers still have streaks of dead brown trees but the streaks seem only marginally larger. Maybe a good sign?

We begin on the same trail as last year — trail 9 which heads south and loops roughly north — but we branch off onto trail 6-A that climbs to Refugio Malaga Contrin for a nice “Italian taste” G&T and coke after waiting for a table with sufficiently spectacular views.

As we leave, Cynthia videos girls feeding goats in a fenced area.

We are a tad hot from the day and tired from steady travel, so we return to Grones for some R&R: Cynthia stays in our room with a David-delivered Hugo while David writes this blog with a Negroni at a table looking at the lift we used today.

Dinner and bed