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Trails & Mountains
The Swiss mountains have us back again. This time, we decided to hike in the mountains in Valais near Zermatt, and we got us another quite adventurous trail straight up a mountain called Weisshorn. With an altitude of 4505 m (appr. 14.800 ft), the Weisshorn is the forth highest mountain in the Swiss Alps. Usually, alpine rock and glacier climbers hike up the mountain to a cabin near the top in order to set out in the wee hours of the following morning (that’s usually no later than 3 am) to climb through ice and snow up to the very peak. We, however, made the Weisshorn mountain cabin our hiking destination for the day.
After a rainy previous day, weather conditions began to change when we left home early this morning, and by the time we reached the car train we could see the sky turning blue. (Yes, you read correctly: a car train is a train on which you drive with your car, and it takes you through a very very long tunnel across an alpine mountain range; saves you a lot of time driving around all those mountains).
Car train in Kandersteg
Car train – about to enter the tunnel
In Randa, a tiny town, deep down in the valley, we parked our car, and then set out on a steep path that would take us through a forest and straight up the mountain, across streams of water, and with a view that got more and more amazing the higher we got. (And need I say more breath-taking – in the literal sense – the higher we got?)
Train station in Randa (near Zermatt)
First half of the hike – through the woods
Little town of Randa
Alpine flora
By 4 o’clock in the afternoon we reached our cabin, where we could rest, explore the surroundings and talk with other hikers and glacial climbers. And of course, we marveled at the scenery when the sun began to set slowly …
We finally made it; Weisshorn mountain cabin, 2932 m
From the Weisshorn mountain cabin the peaks of 19 mountains higher than 4.000 m can be seen – a breathtaking panorama!
This is where our hike ends – too much soft snow, too dangerous to cross this late in the day …
Weisshorn cabin, 2932 m, with view to Monte Rosa, Switzerland’s highest mountain still covered in clouds; here we’re going to spend the night
Surrounded by glaciers and rocks – a great place to spend the night
Mountains aglow
Weisshorn Peak (4.505 m) – finally cleared from clouds, and too difficult for us to climb
Monte Rosa mountain massif (4634), Switzerland’s highest mountain
Alpine Tour: Weißhorn-Hike – Day 1
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- Car train near Kandersteg
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- Car train near Kandersteg
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- Randa train station
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- Village of Randa
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- Village of Randa
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- Village of Randa
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- Weißhorn mountain cabin
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- Trail up to Weißhorn peak
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- Weißhorn mountain cabin
Checking Out Berne
We’ve been busy these last two days. Busy, because we’re getting ready for the next adventure – another two-day Alpine hike in Switzerland. Exciting? Yes, but it means that we’ve spent hours today and yesterday to check out places and trails that would make a good hike. Aside from that, however, we also had a chance to check out Berne, and we had fun eating a Swiss-German chocolate fondue (the equipment was Swiss, the chocolate – how sad is that – was German)!
Berne:
Celebrate
Credits:
All American Guy by Heather Roselli & Meghan Mullens
Font: DJB Miss Molly Brown by Darcy Baldwin
Journaling Café: Summer Holidays
For most of us the summer holidays are in full swing, so it’s about time to talk (and journal) a bit about what’s going on on that side of life. Here are today’s prompts:
I also wanted to journal a little about what I enjoy doing during my summer holidays (esp. what things I like doing away from home), so here’s my page:
Berne
Moving On – Or the Worst Packed Car Ever
My week of school is over, which means it’s time to move on – yet once more. (Didn’t I tell you earlier that I’m living by weekly increments this summer?) Well, and this time, it’s taking us across the border to Berne. So, of course, whenever you move from one place to another, your stuff also has to move. Quite logical, isn’t it? What wasn’t quite that logical to me was the way my friend and travel mate thought would be the feasible way to pack the car. Well, yes! I admit it! I do have a lot of stuff that needs packing and moving (not all of what you see in the car is mine). But with just a little effort, it’ll all fit smugly into the lower half of the trunk, and so we safely made it across the border, without getting stopped for the worst packed car ever, or whichever other reasons Swiss-German border officers might find to put us into trouble! Yay for that!
Into the Depths of the Black Forest
Our goal today was to visit Hell’s Valley, a gorge in the heart of the Black Forest. Now, we didn’t end up quite there, I believe (we kind of took the wrong turn), but we did end up somewhere in the depths of the Black Forest. And if not as “gorgeous” as Hell’s Valley, it was still a pretty place. Here are more pictures of our trip (though sadly I forgot to bring along my camera, so they’re whatever my phone was able to handle):
P2D: Beautiful Dreamer
Paper to Digi means I’m taking a traditionally scrapped paper layout and scraplift it so as to create a digital layout.
This week, I found this lovely page that immediately inspired me:
What I loved about this page was the composition, the piece of word art that got so much focus, the placement of the title, and all the little scattered elements. It’s what I tried to incorporate on my own page (and, of course, this time the topic of the page inspired me as well). So, here’s how my page with this turned out:
