Yesterday we took the S10 train from Zürich to Uetliberg. The S10 is Europe's steepest normal-gauge adhesion railway. I actually thought it would be impressively steep but it didn't seem like anything spectacular to me.
Once at Uetliberg, we hiked along the ridge of one of the hills that runs along Zürich and the Zürichsee (the lake). It was cloudy and foggy out so the pictures aren't spectacular but I figured I'd post some pictures anyway. It was different to be hiking on the Western side of the lake as prior to yesterday I had only been North or East of the lake when hiking/wandering around.
As soon as you start hiking, there is the Sun. The hike along the ridge has models of the planets along it on a scale of 1:1 billion. Neat. So here's the sun:
The Sun is obviously the largest modeled object. We continued to walk on up to a hotel and viewing tower with 360-degree views of Zürich and the lake and the surrounding mountains/hills:
As you can see, the weather was spectacular. But at least it remained dry for our walk.
Further along the hike we found some cows. They had cow bells on so you could hear them from pretty far away:
We continued to walk on trails through the woods and through open fields. You got nice views over the lake and also out to the West over the green hills.
We found Saturn. The other planets were pretty tiny, just little specks really for Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, but Saturn was large enough to take a picture of. And, it's easily recognizable with its rings:
At our halfway point there was a cafe (of course) where we stopped and had a big beer and enjoyed a nice view:
This is looking back towards Sürich:
And then we turned around and walked back to the beginning and got back onto the S10 to go home.
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