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09/04/06 - Mürren, Switzerland (Switzerland photo album) Looking for those 'Sound of Music', Ricola commercial Alps.... and finding them! |
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We use the term 'breath-taking' a lot, but this time we mean it.
We just returned from the most beautiful (and strenuous!!) hike
we've ever taken, with spectacular scenery around every corner.
Although it was all downhill (hill? almost a mile of
altitude change from top to bottom), our legs are
aching and burning. Caroline is currently napping, hoping she'll be
able to drag herself to the gondola which will take us back down
the mountain in the morning. But it was all worth it, even
though the 3,000 photos we took will of course pale in
comparison. Yesterday's shorter hike was another perfect day out. We were looking for that stereotypical alpine experience, the grassy ridges with mountain huts and snow-capped mountains in the background, and we found it. Scott even got Caroline to run and spin down a grass-covered mountain-top all Sound-of-Music-style... though she refused to sing. These past couple of days in the Alps have been exactly what we were hoping for, and we could easily imagine coming back to experience more of the seemingly endless hiking 'proposals' (as all the Swiss brochures say) and unimaginable beauty that is... the Alps. |
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