I was skiing in the Ortler this week with Stephen Olivant, Steve Hunt, Jenny Raffle, Lesley beck and aspirant Guide Mark Thomas. We met in Rheinold Messners home town of Sulden gaining height on the first morning using the lift then shuffling over the Madritschjoch skiing down the other side Stephen clipped a rock fell and dislocated his shoulder, the shoulder poped back in but unfortunatley came out again when skinng the short distance to the Zuffal hut. Unfortunatley it did not go back in so we had to have Stephen sledged out to hospital where he was put back together again. The rest of the team continued to the Marteller hut, it snowed over night which mean't some trail breaking to the Cima Marmotta and a fantastic powder snow descent. On Tuesday morning we headed up the Zuffal Firner to the Casati hut for morning coffee, from there we skinned up the Sulden spitz then skiied some great snow on it's north side before crossing a small col and back to the hut for the night. Wed dawned with some mixed weather, we headed for the Cevedale but were stopped by bad weather, we headed down the Vedretta di Cedec glacier initially on a rope until the visibility improved and we could ski down to the Pizzini hut. The only hut I have stayed in with en-suite facilities. We managed a short tour in the afternoon to the Passo di Zebru Nord.Thursday was a bit mixed so we had 2 short tours one to the Col Pale Rossee then back to the hut for luch then onto peak 3119m just north of the Passo di Zebru Sud. Against the forecast Friday dawned clear with fresh snow and a cold NE wind, we managed to climb the Cevedale and had fantastic powder right from the summit, we stopped in past the Casati hut for coffee (we were in Italy) then skinned over the Sulden Spitz and skiied to Sulden where we were reunited with Stephen.