A month or so ago (I’m late as usual to posting events) my husband went on a Team Building hiking trip thing. His team took a train to bus to a cable car up a mountain, and then hiked back down the mountain, going down on scooters partway, and stopping for the occasional beer. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hiking’
Team Building Hiking Trip and the Alp Aufzug
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged Alp Aufzug, alpine cow parade, alpine traditions, alps, appenzell, cow parade, cows, goats, hiking, parade, scooter, swiss traditions, switzerland on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Walk in the Woods
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged switzerland, hiking, winterthur, woods, wildlife, vitaparcours, Bäumli, lindberg on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our city of Winterthur spreads out like a six-fingered hand into the valleys between wooded hilltops. The city and its people own all the wooded areas, and protect them from being developed. To maintain them, they periodically do selective cut logging of the woods, and sell the firewood. It is a really good system, and [...]
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf!”
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged hiking, santis, switzerland on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We went here today. Säntis is utterly gorgeous. I’ve never been around mountains like that in my life before, and it was incredible – jaw-droppingly amazing and beautiful.
We got up and moving fairly early, and with the baby, that’s quite an effort. We had to change trains just a few times. By the time we got [...]









