lauterbrunnen hike

I went on a great hike Saturday. It was my first experience hiking by myself and it was great. It took almost 3 hours to get to Lauterbrunnen (near Interloken) by train and the hike itself took a little over 4 hours. The Lauterbrunnental is the world's largest glacial valley. I took the cablecar from Lauterbrunnen to Grütshchalp and started hiking from there. Throughout the hike I had great views of the famous mountains: the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau (pictured below).

Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau again (without the glaring sun):

I went through the tiny little "town" of Allmendhubel which consisted of one restauraunt, and then continued on to the cute little town of Mürren.

From Mürren I continued on to Gimmelwald and then to Stechelberg. This was the first time I'd ever seen these avalance prevention things which were built into the steep hillsides with small trees planted at the point.

Also, not all the cows have descended from the mountains. I ate lunch next to this friendly gal:

There were a lot of beautiful waterfalls along the hike.

Self portrait: Let's go Reds!! (I'm watching the game now since I couldn't stay up until 4am to watch it last night :) )

There were a couple of signs warning to beware of falling rocks - kind of scary!

I considered stopping in Interloken on my way back to Zürich but I was just too exhausted, so I'll have to make another trip there sometime. I fell asleep on the train on the way back and was in bed around 9pm!