I get up early and check the weather. It was supposed to be flyable but isn’t.

A friendly shepherd takes me up to Timmelsjoch. 600 sheep in his care. Cloudbase is below the pass height, it’s cold, and it’s blowing across the pass to the south. 5 hPa pressure gradient, not 3 hPa as the forecast originally assumed.
It is frustrating to walk down from 2500 m asl. That said, the weather isn’t making it a close call.
In the afternoon the rain avatars and the sun comes out. I hike up a west flank. Rather uneasy about flying under the circumstances, I launch. I get up to cloud base without much trouble. Heading East, I dodge clouds to enter my valley of choice- it has landing opportunities, unlike some of the narrower ones. As I approach the Wipp valley that leads north to the Brenner pass, I face very strong headwinds. I decide against flying into the main valley to land, fearing the Föhn.

Finding a hotel is the next challenge. I really want to wash my clothes, shower and shave. Everything is booked out. The tenth place I try has a last room left. I take it. The clerk, realizing I haven’t had dinner yet, and seeing I’m by foot, generously offered me her bike to get to the old town for dinner. No locks here, “just leave it behind this tree when you’re done”.