I took the bus up to Le Tour and bought a half day liftpass. Three lifts took me to the lifts high point. I continued booting up the ridge for another 10 minutes, traversed on skis and finaly booting up to the "varde". It was mighty tempting to ski down the colouire on the other side, but being alone and ending up in Swisserland without my passport was probably not a good idea.