On the occasion of his Big Hiking adventure, Gulliver took his brand new Shirt to celebrate the Swiss National day with (too bad he miscalculated by 1 day):
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| From Trift |
The alpine hike from the top of the cable car up to the bridge took about an hour and half with some stops to admire the gorgeous view of the mountains of the Grimselwelt around. Finally, we arrived at the recently constructed bridge (in 2009) and its spectacular views. The bridge is 170 meters in length and is suspended over a 100 meter deep canyon, the longest of its type in Europe.
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| From Trift |
The view of the Trift glacier & lake from the bridge appeared calm and wonderful, it was one of the most scenic views we have ever seen in Switzerland.
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| From Trift |
After a short lunch break we headed back, choosing an alternative way, which was indicated as being a 20-minute-'family trail' ... well, it must have been measured with very fit kids, as it took us about double the time and quite an exhausting hike & rock climbing until we reached the Windegg Hut at 1887m. Having some rest here, we continued our way downhill... several 'blueberry stops' along the way, then we finally arrived back to our car at 9:30pm.
It was definitely an amazing, but very exhausting day for all of us. The most tiring Birthday I can remember having :-)) I was even too tired to open my present, so we left the celebration for the following day (blog entry will be posted soon)
Our entire album on this trip may be visited here:
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| Trift |
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