Day 4 - from Elm to Linthal

richetlipass

Today we can see some blue sky and finally great scenery is also visible!
We woke up in this nice room with bed and yellow sheets, ate some breakfast and at 9.15 we left.
Today we planned to take a bus and save two hours. Of course Wolf would walk all the way up, but my muscles were bit tense and tired, so he took pity on me and we went to look for a bus stop.

Elm is nice small village-town, where the bus stop near the church and both are in the very center.. We found church and bus stop quite quickly and it was still half an hour till the bus, so we were hanging out there and met one nice swiss lady, who spoke very nice English - thats something! :)

Near by was small shop full of different close and such stuff, we came in to check out if they have also gloves. Kind shopkeeper brought from the basement one big box full of all different type of gloves. Wolf picked very quickly and I needed like 15 minutes more to pick a pair for myself. Anyway that hardest task was also done and we became happy gloves owners.. :) You need those in Switzerland even during summer! :)

Bus came right in time. Besides us there was couple of younger boys, but they went out next stop. So, basically, we had a taxi-bus just for two of us.. Anyway, we drove around 20 minutes by bus and arrived to Ober Erbs, bus made for us 700 m of gaining altitude.. what to do.. :) well, we had another 700m in front of us and aaaall the way down.

Weather was much more nicer than on previous days, we could some surroundings. We passed by small lonely house, big swiss soldier came out and asked us, where do we think, we are going?! We answered, that we go to the Richetlipass and from there to Linthal. Soldier: "Ok, I just needed to know, otherwise, you know, they will shoot." Shoot? wow.. He told us that after first pass we will see the tanks. We went on and heard some shooting here and there, but we haven't notice any tanks.

So we climbed a little bit (446m) to Erbserpass, then we went a bit down, and after that again a bit of climbing to Richetlipass (2261m).

Going up was nice and peaceful.
In the end it became quite stiff and started to resemble actual climbing :)
Wolf was already up, sitting and smiling and i was still climbing my way up, sweating and taking rest here and there. Finally i was also up, near Wolf.. we spend some time up there, enjoying the view.
Peaceful solitude.... moment of silence....

We started our descent (we will need to lose 1 500 m) towrds Linthal. It was quite slippery. Soon we walked into the cloud again... and of course inside such clouds almost always raining.... :)
We were passing by most beautiful places in the whole Europe, but unfortunately we could not see any of this great scenery. just 15 meters around.. - great visibility! :)
We walked on the top of some hill - small trekking path - couple of meters wide, from one side deep down - forest, from other side deep down - river.
Soon we came to most pleaseant part of our today's journey - tons and tons of mud mixed with cow dung.... OMG. :)
It was extremely slippery and extremely muddy.. Perfect place for mud fights.. if there would not be so much cow dung.. :D Anyway every step was taken with extreme caution. This part of the trek took as trice as more time, as it would take with other weather conditions.

Soon we saw in front of us "real road". We were quite tired of all the rain and muddy descent, and somehow developed hope, that journey for today start to finish and that this nice road will bring as to Linthal very soon.
But guess what, soon road was finished and we turned into a deep forest - and all the way down, down, down...

Such a beautifulk forest walk!
Powerful rivers, dark tonnels, fresh forest smells....
Refreshment for the soul..

After quite a descent we saw Linthal from a distance.
Nice town with perfect buildings, perfect surroundings, perfect flowers..
Everything was so extremely perfect.. - Thats Switzerland. well....

We found one shop, bought something for dinner and after some more walking around a town, we bacame pretty much familiar with concept "ruhetag", but finally we found some suitable place to stay.