Day 6 Doing some real mountain hiking in the Swizz alps

Today was a quite adventurous day… we decided to try some hiking and our wonderful host offered to drive us to a trail that tourists usually never find… now I know why 🙂

It was a quite challenging trail as you will see from the pictures below… and it wasn’t until we reached the top we realized that the trail was actually closed down because it was deemed to be way to dangerous to use (since June 2009). Good that we didn’t know that beforehand because it was a quite cool experience… (even though it was a bit scary sometimes when you where skidding around on a small path with a steep fall on one side…)

 

This is a picture of Pilatus, the mountain we went up… we actually managed to get all the way to the top… (starting at 1200 meter climbing to 2300 meter)

 

Ok, this is the view from the mountain 🙂

 

This is to show how it was to pass some of the parts of the mountain 🙂

 

Walking up the mountain…

 

 

Me surfing a rock… with a pretty nice view behind 🙂

 

Åsa climbing up the mountainside… (eh, actually she was preparing her camera for a group photo) 🙂

 

The result of Åsa’s climbing 🙂

 

 

Looks almost like a fairy-tale land… we had some VERY beautiful views…

 

 

We actually walked up to that little church to the right… and then all the way to the top on the mountain to the left 🙂

 

 

After the church the fog started to become thicker… this was one of the last pictures we could see something… after that the visibility was about 4-5 meters. (The fog came within a few seconds and with the wind it became VERY cold!)

 

 

Just arrived to the top… and found all the warning signs about that the path was sealed off….

 

 

A bit more of the signs…

 

 

At the top the fog cleared out after a while (and it disappeared as fast as it came… within a few seconds we had a miles-wide view again!)

 

 

Me and Åsa riding a dinosaur 🙂

 

 

You can see a part of the path that we where walking on below

 

I got quite cold from all the wind and walking… so a group hug was definitely welcome 🙂

 

 

Me and the cows… (the path went through their pasture) We also saw lots of mountain goats…

 

 

Åsa wanted to pet one of the cows…