The next day we took a cable car up to Grutschalp and then the
Panoramafahrt - the Panoramic train - to Murren. Murren is a bustling
resort town...except in November, when its shoulder season. To be
honest, shoulder season is my favorite time to travel (see
Sweden
in November and Italy in February - if I had actually written a post,
whoops) - less crowds and cheaper, so one can get photos like this...
However, one problem in traveling during shoulder season is that lots of other things may be closed...like the cable car up to Allmunhubel, where our hike started. So instead, we decided to hike up to Allmunhubel, which was up 1,000 feet from Murren, which turned out to be a bit difficult since the air is much thinner up there, and it was straight uphill. Luckily we had lots of beautiful views...
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| Birg station on top and the path cutting up on the right. |
The weather was gorgeous, and we had some great views. Here's Murren from above, and a non-working ski lift. There are great ski trails all around the area - I can't wait to go back in March!
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| Murren from above |
The hike was very long, but had amazing views. Here's a high plateau with a gorgeous view of the mountain range. That is the Schwartzmonch and Jungfrau.
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Eye of the Tiger
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| The Big 3: Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau, and in the foreground, the Schwartzmonch. |
We decided to hike down to Gimmelwald via the Sprutz trail, where one sees the Sprutz waterfall. HOWEVER, we did not know that right before the Sprutz waterfall, there is another waterfall that runs on the trail. This is fine in most months of the year, but when it freezes over and you, your hubs, and your hubs' parents have to cross it AND there is what seems like a 200 foot drop into an icy river, its much, much more scary. We definitely should have had crampons to cross it. We asked the TI in Lauterbrunnen if it was OK to go on the trail, and very Swiss like, they said yes it is fine but didn't tell us that a part of the trail could be frozen and there is a drop into the icy river below if you fall. Oh, and you are at least 3 km from civilization should you hurt yourself. Anyway, we survived! :)
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| Frozen waterfall |
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| After I crossed, D's mom + dad getting ready to cross. D's dad scampered back and forth 3x while I hyperventilated. |
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| Sprutz waterfall |
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| Frozen waterfall on the left, Sprutz on the right. I'm freaked out thinking about it. |
We finally got down to Gimmelwald, just as the sun was setting and emerged from the forest for sunset and the very end of some beautiful Alpen glow.
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| Alpen Glow |
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