Day 4 - August 30

Murren to Grieslap

Today’s hike was from Murren to Grieslap

Hotel Grieslap

Not gonna lie - today was brutal. I was warned. They didn’t lie. The downside - intermittent rain all day so very few views (that’s why God invented postcards) mud, mud, mud, I was chased by a cow and closely followed by a goat with horns (they lied about that) The nearly 4,000 feet of descent was mostly loose rock which is much worse than the 3300 feet of ascent. Did not see that coming! Sound awful? Not really. The rain was a light rain, I have great rain gear, I didn’t get lost, I didn’t get hurt, I freaking crossed a mountain on a high and narrow pass, the innkeeper at my destination could see how absolutely wiped I was and insisted I sit for a cup of tea and zwieback which was lovely.

The place I’m staying is best described as a hamlet. I was upgraded to the honeymoon suite. That’s the only part of the day Bill would have loved and I missed him! Almost no English spoken and almost no German spoken by me but we are figuring it out. Love watching and listening to everyone and everything around me. I know please and thank you which helps. Tomorrow is a rest day. Gluten free and lactose intolerant folks might want to skip Switzerland. Cheeses and bread are sooo good.

At the beginning of the day. Not a lot of smiles after that.

Mürren to Grieslap

Base jumpers take off from here

These clean sources of water are everywhere. No need to carry extra H2O

Little places like this pop up in the middle of nowhere.

Brief frame of what lies through the fog

Lots of pretty little flowers everywhere

Rot Stock Hutte. You can stay here, eat, drink, and use the bathroom. I needed to keep moving.

She ignored me as most did. There will be no pictures of the gal who stared me down and came after me. I must have triggered some bovine trauma or she knew I didn’t like milk and found it offensive. Whatever. It made passing cows the rest of the day unnerving. They just stare!

The Seifinenfrugge, the pass I crossed.

MUD

The final ascent looking back

The initial descent (turns out this was the easy part)

Regrets? None.

And over 11 miles!