Laowai

I’m catching up on posting photos from our hikes last weekend. It feels like I just keep posting more and more photos of mountains. But when I’m out there on the trail I feel so thankful that we have gotten to go on so many hikes this spring. This pandemic time has actually been really precious as far as seeing beautiful Switzerland is concerned. There haven’t been any birthday parties or trips to the pool or shopping or sleepovers to fill the weekends. So we have gotten to explore the area around us more than ever. Being out there under the blue sky taking a deep breath and seeing the vast mountains splayed out in front of me – it’s the most soothing thing I can do right now. I’m thankful. And so here are a bunch (!) more mountain photos.

We took two hikes over the weekend. First with the girls on one side of Wallensee (a lake) and then just Brian and me on the other side of the lake. Brian road his bike and met us at the start of our first hike in Arvenbuel. I was tired just driving the car up to that alpine village. He road 66 miles round trip and had an elevation gain of 4,000 feet. And he took us on a hike. I don’t know how he does it. 

Wayfinding signs and mushroom picking regulations are well marked.

I asked for a family photo for Mother’s Day so we tried to all smile at once. Hmmm.

Here are the photos from the next hike. 

The meadows are amazing this time of year. It’s a wonder that Brian puts up with me – not only am I a pokey hiker but I’m constantly stopping to remark on and take photos of the flowers.

In the photo below you can see the area where we hiked the day before. And if you look closely you can see the zig zagging road that Brian road up – on the left side of the photo. 

Our lunch.

We hiked up to a lake called called Talalpsee. It was even prettier and not over-exposed in real life.