We use the term 'breath-taking' a lot, but this time we mean it.
We just returned from the most beautiful (and strenuous!!) hike
we've ever taken, with spectacular scenery around every corner.
Although it was all downhill (hill? almost a mile of
altitude change from top to bottom), our legs are
aching and burning. Caroline is currently napping, hoping she'll be
able to drag herself to the gondola which will take us back down
the mountain in the morning. But it was all worth it, even
though the 3,000 photos we took will of course pale in
comparison. Yesterday's shorter hike was another perfect day
out. We were looking for that stereotypical alpine
experience, the grassy ridges with mountain huts and snow-capped
mountains in the background, and we found it. Scott even
got Caroline to run and spin down a grass-covered mountain-top
all Sound-of-Music-style... though she refused to sing.
These past couple of days in the Alps have been exactly what we were
hoping for, and we could easily imagine coming back to experience more of
the seemingly endless hiking 'proposals' (as all the Swiss
brochures say) and unimaginable beauty that is... the Alps. |
At the peak of Schilthorn,
10,000 feet
Caroline is alive, w/sound-of-music
Scott, hiking down the ridge... Alpine style
Caroline, still with plenty of steam
Lunch with a view at 7,000 feet, halfway down!
Our lunch view back at the room wasn't bad either (too bad they had to put that ugly stairway in)
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