Fri 3rd Oct 2014
Said goodbye to the lovely couple from Holland who had been here for 5 weeks and were moving on. Packed a picnic and walked into Lautenbrunnen and just happened to see Steve & Liam land having just made their first jump for the day! Stopped for a quick chat. Then we took the train up to Wengernalp 23 Swiss Francs each one way. The sun was just coming over the mountain as we arrived. Set off on our walk which took us all the way back to our campsite! We passed The Eiger and The Jungfrau and were so close we felt we could touch them. We kept stopping to appreciate the complete quietness around us but a couple of times we heard a terrific loud cracking sound that echoed through the gorge which was the ice cracking! Must be unbelievable to see an avalanche. We spent a while at our coffee stop and then at our lunch picnic spot just taking it all in - was unreal! After a fairly easy walk we started our steep descent down via The Trummelbach Falls. At some stages we had to hold onto ropes as it was extremely steep and slippery and not much of an edge!!!!!! Arrived back at Priscilla totally exhilarated (again) and checked in with Donald (Dutch guy whom we informed in the morning of our walk in case we didn't return!) he had just walked (with his 75year old wife) to Wilderswil and back! A nice easy 28km!!!!!
Hot showers and a hot cooked meal then ended our day again feeling pretty pleased with ourselves.
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