From the col there is a wonderful view back down over the ski village in its cirque.
The trail suddenly levels out and for the next hour you contour the side of the right-hand valley to the cirque at its head.
The map showed the glacier tucked into a gigantic spoon-shaped cirque on the north-facing side of the mountain.
At the head of the gulch is a tight cirque facing east, north and west and rimmed with rock slabs pitched at 45 degrees.
Typical habitats include woodland, the banks of streams and ditches; it can even be found at high altitude in damp cirques.
Cols are saddle-shaped depressions in the ridge between cirques.
If two adjacent cirques erode toward one another, an arte, or steep sided ridge, forms.
They were named this because there is often fog rising from the cirques.
