10-12 September 2018 Linthal to Elm

IMG 3492 rowhouses in Linthal IMG 3496 walking up the valley we raced through last week IMG 3498 almost English IMG 3499 fresh cut hay
IMG 3500 mushroom patch IMG 3502 IMG 3503 IMG 3505 loading concrete into bins hauled up the cable way
IMG 3506 loading IMG 3507 at the top of the lift a very aerien landscape IMG 3508 don't fall off the trail IMG 3511 the far cliffs above Urnerboden
IMG 3513 luckily the path is wide IMG 3514 mineral IMG 3515 going the other way IMG 3518 the lower lake comes into view
IMG 3520 and here is the upper lake (Muttsee) with the hut IMG 3521 hut and blaze art IMG 3523 reflecting pool IMG 3534 people who came cross country
IMG 3543 photos of the project IMG 3544 diagram of the pump storage IMG 3545 dinner at Muttseehutte IMG 3547 sunset over the Alp
IMG 3549 Muttseehutte has been renovated and is quite nice IMG 3550 morning on the dam IMG 3552 geometries IMG 3553 the lower lake is a long way down
IMG 3558 chains up Kistenpass IMG 3564 grab on IMG 3584 Kirstenpasshutte IMG 3585 post-war style
IMG 3586 nice view from dining room IMG 3604 dining room thermometer IMG 3611 patio IMG 3612 security
IMG 3613 the trail onward IMG 3614 the outhouse IMG 3615 sun hits the lower lake IMG 3616 the upper lake
IMG 3617 German couple with whom I dined later IMG 3619 lots of vertical IMG 3620 the butte behind Bifertenhutte IMG 3621 south into the Grisons
IMG 3622 Bifertenhutte at left IMG 3623 trail I will follow tomorrow IMG 3624 uncertified water at the hut IMG 3626 my own little cubby
IMG 3627 Tödi in the back IMG 3628 top of the butte IMG 3629 Tödi IMG 3630 some of the hundreds of cairns
IMG 3631 everywhere cairns IMG 3632 like this one IMG 3633 and these IMG 3634 and these
IMG 3635 cairn panorama IMG 3636 flagstones ready to fly into the lake below IMG 3637 strata and cairns IMG 3638 Bifertenhutte below
IMG 3639 more chains to reach the top of the butte IMG 3640 dining room Bifertenhutte IMG 3641 morning light as I leave cross country for Panixerpass IMG 3644 trail, sort of
IMG E3646 mineral IMG E3647 I am headed around these ridges IMG E3648 shale ridge IMG 3649 trace of a trail
IMG 3650 more incised here IMG 3652 brilliant and empty IMG 3653 no one here but me IMG 3654 trail up the pass zigzags on the opposite slope
IMG 3656 IMG 3657 IMG 3660 waterfalls IMG 3661 very craggy peak behind
IMG 3662 unguarded hut at the top of the pass IMG 3663 a old constructed road to the pass IMG 3664 descending to the valley of Elm IMG 3665 huge slopes above
IMG 3667 almost Eiger-like faces IMG 3669 IMG 3670 IMG 3672 astonishing crags
IMG 3673 I kept looking for rockfalls IMG 3674 geology IMG 3675 and cows IMG 3676
IMG 3677 IMG 3678 alp art IMG 3679 IMG 3680 tanks practicing
IMG 3682 on the tank range IMG 3683 haying IMG 3685 raking hay IMG E3686 into windrows
IMG E3687 hot work IMG 3688 dispersed settlement up the slopes IMG 3689 green fields lead to cliffs IMG 3690 nice garden!
IMG 3691 end of the trail IMG 3692 end of the trail IMG 3696 there is a hole in the cliff (blue sky) IMG 3697 weirdly eroded rock moved from river to center of town
IMG 3698 the geological World Heritage site IMG 3700 all in German IMG 3701 typical house IMG 3702 untypical graveyard
IMG 3703 nice flowers IMG 3704 for the dead IMG 3707 peace along the stream