Arosa - Zernez

For once, the thermal forecast was much more pessimistic than the actual conditions turned out to be.
As happens very often in 'Arosa' (at least to me) I had quite some problems launching from the the to of the 'Weisshorn', but finally I got airboren from a lower TO.
I arrived at the 'Schafrügg' rather low, but after I found the first thermal, it became rather easy going.


above 'Schafrügg', looking N towards 'Arosa; 'Weisshorn' slightly left of center

The flight then took me South above the 'Albula'-valley towards 'Bergün' and the 'Albula'-pass.


Albulatal -Bergün -Bernina (background)

Here cloudbase was above 4000m and a couple of times I had to make 'big ears' in order to remain below 3950m (the legal ceiling here in Graubünden).

Originally I wanted to cross via 'St.Moritz' towards 'Corvatsch'and 'Bernina', but the ceiling was almost overcast.


Bernina

So I turned East to follow the 'Engadin'-valley and finally landed in 'Zernez'.
2h40m for almost 54km - exactly the it took me to get back to Arosa by train' ;-)


Zernez, looking East towards St.Moritz