Today was day 1 of our 6 day hiking trip. Did I mention 6 days?? Did I also mention today was day ONE?
Its 830 at night here and we are both in bed already! Talk about endurance atheletes... Not.
The walk today took us from Meiringen to grindlewald, ome of the most popular walks in switzerland. It is around 4 hours of hiking in which you climb about 3000ft. The hike for today ends on top of the highestt point of the walk a bit like those stages in the Tour de france. Except without bikes, and the elite athletes, and the crowds, apart from that, identical.
The walk allegedly goes beside the wetterhorn mountain and its glacier. It is about 8000 ft above you and is incredibly impressive. As I said, apparently.
It seems this would be the case if it wasn't pissing down rain the whole way and in cloud the rest of the time. Seriously when we got the end point the only thing we could see were water vapour circles about 2mm in front of our face.
We then jumped the bus down to grindlewald with, again,allegedly, one of the best views of the North Face of the Eiger in the World. We have not seen anything above 376 ft high and probably wont for our walk tomorrow either. Diasppointing, but as rob consoled me with, "at least its not as hot as the amazon.
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