I've done some great hikes in some great places - NZ South Island, The Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Glacier, etc. Today was the best. Perfect weather, great guide, fun companions. Up the gondola, easy walk to alpine lake surrounded by 1000' high stone amphitheater, waterfalls cascading down everywhere from melting glaciers. Then a tough scramble up the rock to a meadow carpeted with wildflowers. Lunch at a mountain hut (pretty bad chicken noodle soup) amongst a flock of chickens & herd of very friendly cows. Then around the bowl on a narrow path through another wildflower carpet, across some tough talus scrambles & back down to the gondola. Pictures can't begin to do justice to the magnificent beauty of this place.
Can't wait for tomorrow.
John, beautiful scenery, glad you are enjoying it so much and the weather continues to cooperate with your hikes. You said you were headed to the Bernese Oberland, so I assume you are near the Eiger, the Jungfrau and the Monch peaks. Were you hiking around Wenger, Kleine Scheidigg or some where else. You did not say where you were exactly./ Perhaps you are above Interlaken in Grindelwald.
ReplyDeleteDid you get your brat yet?
At the southern edge of the Berner Oberland - a little remote village of Kandersteg. About an hour south of Interlaken.
ReplyDeleteStill hunting for the perfect brat. Maybe Saturday in Zurich.