Yesterday the sun came out so we headed south to do a hike starting in the little village of Tschiertschen (pronounced something kind of like cheer-chen) and ending in Arosa (which we've hiked into before but from the other side, Davos). It wasn't a super challenging hike, but it was almost 9 miles so still a good workout.
Lots of pretty scenery on the hike, and a few waterfalls and streams too:
Here's Tschiertschen, where we started:
We took a break mid-day at the usual halfway-point restaurant in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. We had some apple cake and coffee. In this picture are Simon and Nick, two of the guys who work in Martin's lab. Simon is a PhD student from southern Germany and Nick is a postdoc from Michigan.
Some more pretty scenery:
We ran into a large group of cows. There were probably 50 cows here and every single one of them had a cow bell. What a racket. I wish I'd had a recorder to record the sound so you could all hear it. Certainly nobody is losing this herd of cows.
This cow came right on over to help out in case we were lost:
Nick, enjoying the view:
Post-hike beers at a cafe in Arosa. Nick actually had some bratwurst and Simon had some ice cream so it was a good refueling all around:
While we ate we were serenaded by Alphorn players and people fooling around with Swiss flags (though they need to work on their synchronization):
Just another day in Switzerland.
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