Punta Albigna from the Hut

From the hut the little mountain actually looks very nice. The meuli route is on the bastion in the front. You start by the two small parellel butresses and go almost straight up keeping a bit to the left. A little bit to the right you'll find the route 'modern times' (5+). Further right on the bastion are more difficult routes. When you finish Meuli or Modern Times you end up on the left side of the small ridge (from left to right) on top of the bastion. You can see in the picture that behind this is a rock/snow basin. Here you can descent to the hut (not difficult, but tricky, see the meuli page) or go up to the upper part of the route. Another less climbed way to the upper route is following the small ridge itself (mostly about 2nd degree climbing, on the nice big tower a rope of about 4). You can also ofcourse enter the route to the summit from this basin. This is not so populair, but I think it is really a very nice half day route (it can be combined with the trip from valley to the hut for instance). The top part of the route begins with 2 ropelengths of 4 much like most of the Meuli route and ends with a nice ridge (2-3). The quality of the rock is as good as everywhere. The descent to the hut starts with an abseil and then a lot of stones and snowfields, but has no real difficulties.