"The Steep, Scary Part"

Last weekend we had another sunny day so, of course, we headed to the mountains. We were too lazy to research any trails so we just picked a mountain area http://www.buerglen-kinzig.ch/ & gondola & hoped we'd find a good trail when we reached the top. We needn't have worried....at the top we had a choice of about 40 trails....




Hmmm...which trail to choose...

Hiking is a family sport in CH with many mountains offering a playground at the top.

We hiked for about an hour until we stopped for lunch. This time we found an actual designated picnic spot right next to a little waterfall. The spot had a firering & firewood so our wurst-grilling was easy.

Grilling with a view

After lunch, Lukas was tired of hiking so he rode in the backpack. We hiked a little ways until we reached the gondola that we had planned to take back done. By this time, Lukas had fallen asleep. It was so nice out that we thought that maybe we should just hike down to the midway station of the gondola. I BRIEFLY checked a trail map that was posted on the gondola and it looked like there MIGHT be a trail that headed that way. In my defense (which will become obvious shortly), I told Rob that I wasn't completely sure.

We started down a trail that headed straight down but slowly & surely disappeared. Before you knew it we were trudging across cow fields and hopping barbed-wire fences. We tried different directions but each way just seemed to lead us to a huge ravine that we couldn't cross. Rob was fuming a bit at me by this point. His mood wasn't helped by Lukas either, who, by now was wide awake and asking questions and adding comments: "Why are we lost?" "I don't like this." "This is too scary." "You are going the wrong direction." "I don't want to fall." "I think you should go this way." He was in the backpack, so this never-ending commentary was only inches from Rob's ears.

We finally had to bite the bullet & hike straight back up the mountain to the start of the gondola. It was soooo steep!




Heading back up to the gondola -even this photo doesn't fully show how steep it was!

Now whenever we talk about hiking, Lukas chimes in with "But I don't want to do the steep, scary part again!" That makes 3 of us.