Ferienerlebnis Saastal Hotel Atlas Saas Grund

... werden we verast met een dik pak sneeuw!!
Een wandeling van Riederalp langs Blausee, vervolgens door de heuvel-bos-rug naar Rieder Furka was een wandeling van 4 uur, met onze schenen in de sneeuw, was een goede start van onze wandel vakantie:)

Zeer fijn waren onze mooie nieuwe waterdichte en dus warme bergschoenen!

De volgende dag stond ondanks de nieuwe sneeuw welke de nacht gevallen was, wederom de Eggerhorn op het ...

I am only stayin the night just to see the Matterhorn. The sun is out and I took a hike up nearby hill. It was about an hour and a half uphill walk with regular short stops to catch my breath. I think I have had enough of hiking now, I did 4 hours of it at Montreux as well, I must have the best **** at the moment. Spectacular view of the mountain at the hilltop though. It's less of a mountain and more of a giant pinnacle of rock. It looks menacing, to prove it there is a nearby graveyard full ...

... We enjoyed an ok meal considering, and asked for our bill.

At the same time this guy that was sitting behind us got his bill and started carrying on in Italian at the owner. We think he may have been a bit drunk and Witek could understand a little bit of it and said that he was apparently complaining that his wine had cost him 8 euro for the glass! He was creating quite a scene and the waiter invited him inside to discuss the matter further. As he stood up he ...

... took Evie back up via the Tram to the top of the Klein Matterhorn just before the last ride at 4:30p. Along the way, they watched a parade of swiss dancers with typical accordian players as they paraded down main street as part of an annual traditional festival.
 
                 

... of the "exposure" on the hike up and while there were some sketchy sections, everyone arrived safe and sound. Dinner was surprisingly good and our 10 person bunkbed (5 on top, 5 on bottom) was warm and comfortable enough for a decent night's sleep.

                                         

On Friday, we continued to "get the most" from our unlimited passes by taking the kids up to 3100m and the top of the Rothorn. Our journey took us up a Cog Railway (entirely inside a tunnel) to a Gondola. From ...

... me. The two Americans that we met in Interlaken thought it was a good idea to hit the small town too so we all boarded the train first thing in the moring. This was the first time that I had to take three types of transportaion to get to my hostel and I was only about an hour away from interlaken. A 20 minute train ride, a 10 minute bus ride and a 10 minute gondala ride took us up the mountian to "Mouontain Hostel". Gimmelwald is a very very very ...

... burning wood. It was tiny but they managed to get 15 people in it the night we were there. A cool flag post at the mountain hostel. We wanted to go inside because we heard they sold pizza and beer and seeing as how there was absolutely nothing else in the town besides homes, we really wanted ...

... explained our proposed route he didn't seem to think it outlandish. The whole thing was a kind of expensive ticket, (108 CHF) even with a 25% discount offered by our rail pass, but we feel like it's worth it, since the ticket lets us pick and choose our methods of transportation, which will turn out to be important. Apparently, we can use our rail passes to get ourselves to Interlaken Ost, an old ski resort town, but from thereon in we are on a private railway. Our ...

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Here is a video (sorry for the very bad quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=R5_9hODsqgs