Day Trip

Izzi and I did a hike last weekend. We went to Oeschinensee, mountain lake about a hour train ride from here. We hiked from the town of Kandersteg up the mountain (about 1500 vertical feet from the town). the place really was beautiful, the lake is COLD, filled mostly by glacial run off, and up to 180 ft deep. It is probably just a little smaller than Lake Calhoun.




Izzi under one of the waterfalls that feed the lake. We had to do some mountaineering to get here. It was good that Kim wasn't with us, she would have freaked. We had to walk along a ledge maybe 18 inches wide with a cable strung up to hang on to. Izzi couldn't reach the cable all the time. If we would have fallen, it would have been a 25 foot drop into the ice cold water.




On the way down we took the gondola, but first we discovered the Alpine Slide. You can tell from Izzi's face what she thought of it.