Hiking in Switzerland, summer of 2010

[Mohamed Ellozy]

This year I took my laptop with me to Switzerland, got a cell phone based internet connection, so am uploading photos and updating my blog periodically.

I just posted two entries to my blog, A week in St-Luc, Switzerland and St-Luc to Zinal, July 18, 2010.

Two rainy days out of ten so far, not complaining

 

[Cymbidium]

M,
Thank you for sharing your summer trip with us. Just beautiful. BTW, it is equally delightful weatherwise here in NH. Keep the reports coming.
Karen

 

[una_dogger]

Beautiful photos -- a trip I've dreamed of!

 

[Darl58]

Thanks for sharing! Last summer I spent 2 weeks roaming around Switzerland, mostly around Zermat and fell in love with the Alps!

I can't wait to go back and do some more treking!!

Enjoy!!!!

 

[pocahontas]

Beautiful pictures
You are blessed to be able to have the opportunities to hike
so many times in Switzerland!
It is definately on our list of places to hike!

Thanx for sharing
now that your blog's in my "Favorites" we'll be there with you in spirit!
Have fun!

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

now that your blog's in my "Favorites" we'll be there with you in spirit!
Have fun!

Unfortunately I am having so much fun that I do not really have time to update my blog

Clouds moving in today, rain tomorrow, so should get at least partially caught up.

 

[Daniel Eagan]

I'm so envious of your trip, but also grateful that you're taking the time to describe it. Very nice pictures and writing.

I loved Interlaken when I was there a long time ago, in fact I loved Switzerland in general although I was not hiking as much then.

 

[audrey]

I think it's just marvelous that we can all go out and see beautiful places and do wonderful things and then double our enjoyment by sharing it all with our buddies on VFTT. Go Mohamed!

 

[yvon]

We just talked about this at the diner tonight, we have to go back in Switzerland and in Austria.

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Had a quick hike this morning, almost beating the predicted rain, so I have the whole afternoon to catch up with my blog.

My trip on Saturday from Evolène to Mürren was made interesting by breaking it with a two hour stay in Interlaken, putting my luggage in a locker, and exploring the town. Result is From Evolène to Mürren, hope you enjoy it. I hope to add a couple more entries today.

 

[Head]

Way to go Mo! What a beautiful place! Thanks 4 sharing em' (pics and writing)

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Added post on Chandolin to Illhorn to St-Luc. getting a bit tired of writing, but tomorrow is forecast to be rainy, and even if it isn't my aging body needs a day off.

So expect more posts soon!

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Yesterday's hike is far back in the writing up queue, so let me just mention here that I seem to have met Lauky (with a new owner):

I met a woman with this dog, and asked her permission to take the photo. Sorry, not a terribly good photo, sun behind the subject.

 

[Ed'n Lauky]

Yesterday's hike is far back in the writing up queue, so let me just mention here that I seem to have met Lauky (with a new owner):

I met a woman with this dog, and asked her permission to take the photo.
Sorry, not a terribly good photo, sun behind the subject.

Hi and thanks for posting the photo, it was indeed very thoughtful. From the picture I would say that the dog looks more like the ghost of my Airedale Duffy. Did the owner look like a ghost too? Little Lauky the Welsh Terrier is a look alike, but he is about one third the size of an Airedale. What's really eerie is that at almost the identical moment that your E-mail notifying me of this post came through (The first E-mail came at 12:15 and yours at 12:18) I had an E-mail from a woman I have never met who thinks that she may have owned Duffy's mother. Both dogs had been rescued by New England Airedale Rescue.

Best wishes, I trust your trip continues to go well. I wish I was there too. I calculated once that in the twenty years I spent in France I had spent six months hiking in the French Alps. Oh how I love them.

 

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

Looking forward to getting back on the computer so that I can check out your blog and photos. Cannot wait to get back to Bern next summer.

 

[Paradox]

Wonderful photos of the Alps!

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

A couple of updates:

1. Sorebois to Zinal has some nice mountain scenery.
2. The North Face Trail is a low elevation hike on a cloudy day (rained on me at the end), minimal views, but still an enjoyable hike. See me crawl through a gate!!

 

[audrey]

And where are the tent, sleeping bag, and stove?

"Mohamed Goes Ultralight in the Alps!"

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

After two days of this:

I wake up and see that:

A few more clouds vs sunshine photos here.

Life is good, today I attempt the Schilthorn (on foot, not by cable car ).

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Life is good, today I attempt the Schilthorn (on foot, not by cable car ).

Mountain weather ...

Soon after I started hiking clouds came in. I continued up a most uninteresting trail (steep and wide, driveable by maintenance vehicles for ski installations).

By the time I got to the hut this was the view:

Continued for a kilometer or so before deciding to call it a day.

On the way down I shot a ton of photos of the mountains peaking out from the clouds, will need much weeding and editing before they are fit for public viewing.