Dischma is an alpine valley in the municipality of Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubunden, the middle of three parallel valleys running southeast from the Davos plateau toward the Engadin, with the Fluela valley to its northeast and the Sertig valley to its southwest. Its floor ranges from about 1,500 to 2,000 meters in elevation, drained by the Dischmabach stream, and its name comes from the Latin decimus, meaning tenth. At its head sits the Scaletta Glacier, flanked by Piz Grialetsch, 3,131 meters, and Scalettahorn, 3,068 meters, and two passes there, the Scaletta Pass and Fuorcla Grialetsch, once carried wine imports from the Valtellina to Davos during the late medieval and early modern periods; a regular bus service today connects Davos to Durrboden, the valley's uppermost settlement.
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