In reply to Deezel65:
> That’s a lot of super useful info cheers - we may consider walking over then so any photos would be great cheers. You can email them if that’s easiest cheers.
I'll just put the info here in case it's useful to anyone else. Tbh this is probably all extremely obvious if you have a map, but at the time we didn't want to buy one and didn't have any data to use google maps...
This will probably make more sense if you have a look on google maps at the same time, all the places are clearly marked.
You want to aim for the Rifugio Teodulo. We went to the Furgsattel ski lift, between the Furgghorn and the Theodulhorn, discovered there's just a chossy cliff on the Italian side, then traversed the Theodulhorn to the Rifugio Teodulo, which was actually surprisingly straighforward, but definitely more effort than just going to the right place first time.
If you want to use lifts on the Swiss side then going to Shwarzee cuts off a lot of height gain from Zermatt, there's some benefit in going slightly further to Trockner Steg, but the easiest thing to do would be to go to Testa Grigia and then walk down the piste to the Rifgio Teodulo. We went for the Schwarzee option as it seemed the best value for money. If you go to Testa Grigia and there's decent visibility you can't get lost really, you'll just be able to see everything you need.
Once on the Italian side the way you go depends on whether you're going down to Cervino or across to the Abruzzi hut/then up to Carrel hut. There are a lot of gravel tracks/roads which were pretty obvious, though if they're covered in snow it'll be a lot more of a pain. Leave yourself plenty of time if you're going to walk all the way from Zermatt to the Carrel hut in one day, the final bit between the Abruzzi and Carrel is PD or so in it's own right I think, so it's not all a walk.
The photo below was taken at some point on the walk from the Schwarzee lift station.
Post edited at 16:38