When we reached Hohtürli it had just started to snow. So we quickly ran up to the Blüemlisalphütte, where we spent the night.
The snow continued all night and when we woke up there was a few inches of snow, and still falling. Absolutely no hope of finding the path down.
Luckily, one of the hut staff offered to guide us down until we could find the path. We were a big group, with a bunch of 6 Dutch students and three Germans as well.
To begin with there was sideways blowing ice and snow, and you could not see very far. But we eventually dropped down a bit and things became calmer. Still snowing but not so gruesome. We don't have any really good photos because a) it was too cold and wet and b) couldn't see anything anyhow!
The photo above is from lower down when we managed to get the phone out of the pack.
After about 4 hours we made it down to Öschinensee where we are staying tonight.
Location:Blüemlisalphütte
Hello , I'm amazed by your post. Did you walk all the days ? Did you stay in hotels at night ? How about wild animals ?
ReplyDelete(Stanley from Hong Kong )
We did take breaks every now and again, mainly taking advantage of poor weather days to rest. I think we walked about two days out of three.
ReplyDeleteWe stayed in hotels, guest houses, and mountain huts along the way. Since this route takes you from village to village, there is always somewhere nice to stay.
There are no wild animals in Switzerland, unless you count marmots!