The plan for the day was for Phil and I to hike up to Mannlichen, where XiaoQin would join us via cable car. Then hopefully, wed do the mountain view walk together to Kleine Scheidegg and maybe back to Wengen, depending on how much walking we were willing to do. After a short quarter mile walk through Wengen, the trail led steeply up along the hillside. One look up the mountain and it was obvious why---the trail went alongside what was practically a cliff! It didnt take us long before we got to the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy memorial. I suspected but didnt know that he was the Mendelssohn, so I took a picture and moved on.
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| From Tour of the Alps 2011 |
Going higher up, the views opened up but because of overcast skies, we could not see far. We had been warned that this hike would be harder than usual because of constructions on the avalanche protection near the top, but were not prepared for signs like this:
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| From Tour of the Alps 2011 |
In the USA, these signs would be cause for a lawsuit were anyone to be injured by rock fall, and hence the entire trail would be closed, despite the fact that I did not see any possibility of rock fall.
Once we got higher, we saw some wildflowers and the pace slowed a little bit. I wasnt happy about the overcast, though, as it promised that our views of the mountains would be occluded.
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| From Tour of the Alps 2011 |
Sure enough, the panorama trail granted us only views of the base of the Eiger, the Jungfrau, and the Monch, and the best view of the mountains we got was further down, past the Kleine Scheidegg train station.
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| From Tour of the Alps 2011 |
We finished the hike one station down, got onto the train and then had a pizza dinner, hoping for some nice weather tomorrow before the serious riding began.
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