Today we arrived early at Pian Gran and thought we would be the only ones, but we are not. We are in six, all wanting to go on the long walk to capanna Buffalora tomorrow, all insecure about the weather. We were lucky, made it to this beautiful place just in time before it started to rain. The others arrived later, all soaked. The path was easy, but it was a long climb of 1300m and we hurried the last bit to avoid rain, thunder and lightning. On our way we chatted with a German lady from Stuttgart who had worked at Alpe d'Arbea once and decided to stay. She was nice enough to give us her number and told us to call so she would tell us where she had hidden the key of the next alp if we needed shelter in case of a thunderstorm.