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| Hali Hiking - Switzerland 2019 |
Wow!
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Monday, February 3, 2020
Monday Red-Billed Teal Blogging
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| Red-billed Teal (Zurich) - Switzerland 2019 |
Seen in a humid building at the Zurich Zoo. Reminds me a little of the Eastern Spot-billed duck.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Train to Innsbruck
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| Bludenz - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Train Stops - Switzerland 2019 |
"Juergen Spagolla, executive chef at the famed Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont, grew up next-door to a chocolate factory in Bludenz, a small mountain town in western Austria."
Travelling on the train from Zurich to Innsbruck we passed through a number of small mountain towns. After some after the fact research they turned out to be places that would have been worthy of an extended stay. Oh well.
Also, the train route happened to take us through Lichtenstein! So we can add that to the list of our visited places.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Lucerne Train Station
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| Lucerne Train Station - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Lucerne Train Station - Switzerland 2019 |
A transfer point on our way back to Zurich. Taken with a Canon G5XII, most likely using the flip-up LCD screen feature. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Train Leaving Lauterbrunnen
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| Train Leaving Lauterbrunnen - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Coffee Drinks - Switzerland 2019 |
So, we had gotten up at 4AM to catch this train. Not that many people around at that time in the morning.
Note the pre-bought coffee drinks . . . one big problem that we hadn't anticipated was the overall lack of morning coffee options throughout our trip. The drinks pictured were our clever workaround. No, not hot, but kind of OK.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Leaving Murren
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| Tree, Snow - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Gondola, 5 AM - Switzerland 2019 |
We got up at 4 AM in order to catch the first gondola ride down to the valley. There had been a light dusting of snow during the night.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Autumn, Alps
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| Autumn Leaves - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Trees, Stream - Switzerland 2019 |
Further on up we started seeing the start of autumn colors. Eventually we reached Murren and our hotel and started packing for our next day's departure.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Fog
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| Tree, Mountains - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Hali, Fog - Switzerland 2019 |
We hiked up and out of Gimmelwald, into the fog.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Gimmelwald Flowers
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| Flowers - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Flowers - Switzerland 2019 |
Luckily, it was overcast for some nice diffused light.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Gimmelwald - 2
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| Gimmelwald Buildings - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Firewood - Switzerland 2019 |
Good photography weather, clouds and fog concealing, now revealing, distant snow-enhanced mountains.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Gimmelwald - 1
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| Gimmelwald Gondola Station - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Gimmelwald Sign - Switzerland 2019 |
Gimmelwald is a small village located below Murren, made famous by a glowing Rick Steves review. We wanted to go for a hike, but not a downhill hike, so we decided to take the gondola down to Gimmelwald and walk back up. A nice, somewhat blustery day . . . rainfall early on prompted us to don our raingear.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Murren Views
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| Buildings, Eiger (Murren) - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Hikers from Gondola (Murren) - Switzerland 2019 |
Wow. Are there similar locations in the U.S.? Not in the Sierra Nevada, but maybe in the Rockies?
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Restaurant Stagerstubli
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| Food (Murren) - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Menu (Murren) - Switzerland 2019 |
Nice restaurant in Murren, but only open for one of the days we were there.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Alpine Hike - 4
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| Rock Wall - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Cattle Shed - Switzerland 2019 |
Photos taken as we descended to the little station where we caught the train that took us back to Murren.
As I said, the final stretch consisted of very steep downhill sections, through crumbly soil and tree roots. If we'd known, we would have started from that end (footing much easier to maintain while going up.)
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Alpine Hike - 3
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| Ferns - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Tree Trunks - Switzerland 2019 |
Descending into the woods.
Hmm . . . these photos are very similar to others I've taken in Marin County!
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Alpine Hike - 2
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| Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau - Switzerland 2019 |
So, the Mountain View hike provides plentiful sightings of these impressive peaks. From left to right: Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau. (Click to enlarge.)
Interesting that during the hike I didn't know exactly what I was seeing . . . got the names only after doing some internet sleuthing.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Alpine Hike - 1
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| Hali Hiking - Switzerland 2019 |
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| Hali Hiking, Eiger in Distance - Switzerland 2019 |
We wanted to do some hiking in the Swiss Alps, so after some cursory research we decided on the Mountain View trail. From Murren we took a small cog railcar up to the trailhead, then started out. Our starting point was pretty high up - that meant that the rest of the hike was downhill. That was OK for most of the distance, but became disadvantageous later on.
Monday, January 6, 2020
Monday Horse Blogging
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| Horses (Gimmelwald) - Switzerland 2019 |
Horses seen during a nice little hike we took from Gimmelwald up to Murren.
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