Maybe some of you remember about 30 years ago a series of children’s books called The Stupids Step Out which was a way to teach kids to do things like don’t go the mountains or the desert, etc. without being properly prepared. We apparently forgot all these good lessons because one should definitely be (in Switzerland). KNOW YOUR HIKE.
Today we looked at the hiking map for the Wengen area which we are in and decided to do a new hike for us as it was a glorious day. Looking at the map it was “well that looks ok, looks like it mostly runs along the ridge line” and “well,it’s rated with the white and red which means more difficult but we did those last time “ which was 7 years ago.
Ah, nope. This was all a SIGNIFICANT DOWNHILL. After about 1/2 hour into what turned out to be a 4 hour hike (2.5 on the Swiss scale) we were like OOPS. First of all we are 7 years older. Second we did not properly research the hike beforehand. There were people older than us blowing by us but this hike required knees of steel and toes that could take being pushed to the end of the shoes almost all day. By the end I was only able to take tiny steps. A train station never looked so good in Alpinglen and A beer at KS was the best. Thank goodness we saved this puppy for the last day. Anyway moral is the story: KNOW YOUR HIKE!
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