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1) Take good hiking-shoes, when walking in and around Wengen : Many of the paths are slippery sometimes, you will have to step through alpine pastures, solid rocks and loose gravel - all of that is not a good place to show your latest fashion-shoes...
2)Be careful, when hiking at glaciers on Jungfraujoch : For some people it is not always easy to understand, why you would not be allowed to leave the marked paths on top of Jungfraujoch. You may see great crevasses there nearby and plenty of foot-prints of other tourists leading there as well...
I made my pics in a large distance !
Please keep in my mind, that any rescue-activities have to be payed by the incautious tourists, and most of the insurances will not pay anything, when you had left the ordinary mountain-paths !!
3)Some chocolate and an extra bottle of water makes always sense, because when hiking you never know how long you will have to wait for help in case of an emergency or when you are forced to get shelter in an empty mountain-hut because it is that foggy or raining outside that you cannot see, where you are going.
Bottles of the light PET-material are the best - you will not feel them, when they are empty, and you may re-fill them at many natural fountains on your way - the quality of the mountain-water is always excellent in Switzerland and the cheapest mineral water you may buy in a vending-machine is 2 sfr., mostly it is even more expensive. Leave a Comment
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This is billed as "The Fun Hill", not for us it wasn't, it was raining for the second day in a row. We went up on the funicular, had a little walk around and looked at the views and watched a very nice model railway show. Then we decided to go down on the rodelbahn. Big mistake! My eldest son went down first. Myself and my three year old son were strapped in and told to try the break, at slow speed it worked perfectly, then off we went round the first bend and down. It got faster so I tried to slow down by pulling the handle towards me squashing my son, but not slowing down the car faster and faster we went throwing myself and my son around like ragdolls I was pulling harder on handle and the hand grip loosend and pulled off in my hand.
I wasn't supposed to do it I know, but I had to use my feet bashing against trees to try to slow down.
At the bottom my eldest son was there and still sitting in his car when we banged in to him at almost full speed, he was being told to exit the car immediately but in German.
Finger cut, legs bruised, hardly able to walk and feeling lucky to be alive I gulped on my hip flask full of Slovenian schnapps thanking the drink gods that it hadn't fell out.
I certainly will not be having another white knuckle ride on one these contraptions when it is raining.
The rain continued for two more days and several families lost there homes , we were lucky. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.heimwehfluh.ch/
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