Cold follows us: bbbrrrrr!
Steps: 14,600
I woke up with my throat feeling slightly better and the mountains woke up with a fresh layer of snow.
We met up with Fran and Craig just before midday and the five of us hiked up to the Trümmelbach falls made of ten glacial waterfalls inside the mountain coming from the three highest mountains. It spews up to 20,000 litres of water a second – and it was bloody fast.
We went most of the way up by lift, built into the mountain, and then walked the rest of the way up and the the way back down. The water was flowing so fast anywhere between -2 and 2 degrees, it comes straight off the glaciers. The water was twisting and turning inside the mountain, one fall was even called the corkscrew. We stopped at the bottom for hot chocolates but the rain caught us ten minutes before we got back to camp.
So we went on to do the washing, went to town to get dinner, came back and the dryer had stopped but our clothes weren’t dry. Turns out there’s a sensor in the machine that shows when the clothes are dry, and the little German handyman said light cotton stuff – like our shirts and underwear – confused the machine when our jeans were still wet. He put it back in and we got another twenty minutes in the machine without paying – cool stuff!
Lija and I both had pumpkin soup with a fresh loaf of bread. I also got mushroom parisa and some brie mmm! After packing we went to swap details with the Kiwis, cos when we go home we’re all going rafting in NZ! We were sitting there chatting and the lights went out, the fuse had blown for half the camp, and the handyman couldn’t fix it. He eventually kicked us out of the common room, still with no lights. Annoying!
Us girls went down to check out the ‘Bombshelter’, the camp’s pub/club, where else but under the chalet where the contiki people stayed. Eh, a bar’s a bar. I went to get a good sleep.
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