Today is Hohtürli day!
Hohtürli (2 778m) is namely the highest pass on whole Alpine Pass Route.
So it was very special day and very special feeling...
I woke up at 4 o´clock and woke up Wolf, because "it is already morning!". Wolf did not believe my gut feeling about "already morning" and just checked time... Well I was very surprised to see results.. :)
We slept bit more..
Had nice swiss breakfast - mysli. And took off for Hohtürli (with blessings from our host.. who also predicted nice cloudless weather..).
Hohtürli is 1400 meters of ascend and 1300 meters of descent, all that fitting in 10 kilometers. Wolf was cool. And i felt challenge :)
Path went through the forest and reminded Brüsti at some point... We came out from the forest and found ourselves in the pasture-grounds.
There we saw three most happy, playful young calves.
Calves were running through the pastures.. May be they thought that they are dogs or young horses..
It was very sweet picture... Running happy calves..
Well... unfortunately we all know, what will happen to them in the future...
The road through pasture grounds finished quite quickly and ascend began.
Today was no rain.. but we were walking in the clouds again. So no rain, but no view also..
At some point we took rest.. sitting on big white stone, staring at mist.. Suddenly mist dissolved and beautiful view appeared.. Just for some moments..
One strong swiss lady in her fifties carrying heavy backpack (much bigger that our backpackes together) passed by and asked jokingly, if we were enjoying the view.. Well yeah, we ARE enjoying indeed, but there is no definitely any view present. We shared a laugh, few sentences and continued our ascend.
That magical moment, when you somehow understand with your gut feeling, that there is no much clouds left, and soon you will be ABOVE clouds. Just climb few more meters.. and few more.. and there you are... above the clouds:
it is like endlessly big, soft, warm bed.. and peaks of the surrounding mountains here and there..
this picture was made y another hiker up there, he send it to us by e-mail later. thank him for our only picture from whole trek! :)
We spent some time up there. Took some refreshments, sitting there and enjoying the view.
After rest and heart-fulfilling enjoyment we started our way down towards Kandersteg. Descent was quite steep in the beginning, but not so challenging. On the way you just stop sometimes and look around and cannot believe your own eyes. That something can be so touching.. so amazing. Whom we should thank for the beauty of Nature?
After couple of hours we saw a lake. That was Oeschinensee... Probably the most beautiful lake I saw in all my life.
That was the day we had a bridge kiss..... ;)
We approached the lake and decided to stay there in one hotel, which also had dormitory accomadation. So we are sleeping happily in dormitory for just 52 franks (thats without breakfast).
Anyway... Lake is beautiful, sun set is beautiful.. Today is today. And tomorrow will be another day.
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