Last night was cold. My tent was covered in a thin layer of ice – at the outside as well as on the inside.
We wanted to hike some serious distance but we managed only around 22 km (I know the stats say differently but I don’t know why yet…). The morning started out okay and we passed by Refugio Manfré. We stopped there for some warm tea and had a nice conversation with the owner, nice guy. He was very interested in our adventure and told all his friends coming in about us. We had to answer many questions. They gave us some information about our path around Etna. We decided to go to a Refugio only 10 km. away, but eventually didn’t make it there. Shortly after leaving Manfré our path was covered in snow. Post-holing and steep uphill slowed us down to around 2 km/hr. We found another Refugio on the way and decided to stay here. Unfortunately it was closed, but we agreed on pitching our tents anyways. We had to pitch on snow and it started to snow. At least we found a spot underneath a roof and we are protected from the wind. Temperature is going to drop way below zero and I don’t even bother to get out of my clothes. Another freezing cold night…
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