The Hairpins Before Breakfast
First light on the Stelvio, then dropping off the east ramp
Up before the buses. The east side of the Stelvio in that first light is the reason you sleep at two thousand meters. Walked the hairpins with a coffee somewhere in the jacket, helmet on a wall, the whole stack of switchbacks sitting in shadow and then lighting up. Then we dropped off the pass. I kept turning around.
