By this stage we were feeling a bit wiped, this whole week we were sleeping probably 10 hours per night with muscle repair energy. We woke up this morning moving really slow and took the morning off. J was wanting to do the elusive four hour hike. I made us I think the fried potato rostis and fried eggs for a sumptuous brunch, this was something we'd seen advertised at some of the alpine cottage restaurants and I bought the rosti packs and did it. Maybe nows a good time to mention I did a bit of cooking I was proud of during this week. My best was probably a block of smoked tofu in a mushroom sauce, they had a pack but functionally a mushroom gravy with stir fried snow peas they also had a lovely frozen pack of. It was really substantial but also not reliant on a big sack of carbs. We've been eating a lot of bread and cheese interspersed by bread and ham or bread and hummus meals but what bread and what cheese. I even got into bread and butter and jam cause the quality was so good.
Ok so we hit the trail maybe 11:30 a straight out one on a slow but consistent uphill climb. This trail functionally took you straight back to the glacier. Again we got about half way to the glacier but up to the point where you got a real view of it. This was weirdly one of my favorite trails but it's quite hard to describe. It took you straight out always climbing but never like summiting a hill. And past like farmers cottages. There was just that heart lifting feeling of the road going on and on, and you being kind of about midway up with the peaks far above you and the valley and the river far below you. It went from the river to the woods above that to the farmer's cottages and gardens above that to the alpine meadows and goat pastures above that to the end of where we went where you crested a hill and there below you surging with snow was the glacier.
And from the glacier the river flows, at the point where we stopped was a lake, really a dam and a hydroelectric facility there, so big concrete walls and buildings like a dam but an alpine lake below the glacier.
All over in the city river they keep saying don't hang out in the river cause they can unexpectedly release water from the hydroelectric plant and here's where it all happens.
We had planned to take an alternative route back but we decided to go back the way we came cause it was so nice, so we blitzed back down the hill about twice as fast as we went up.
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