We drove to another valley near yesterday's hike, to a village called Lenk. We took the Leiterli mountain lift to a height of 1943m for the hike to Stubleni at 2109m, to Tungelpass at 2084m and then the mountain crossing at 2381m near the Iffighorn mountain, to Iffigsee and then to Iffigenalp at 1584m for the bus back to Lenk. What a great hike!! Great views and the challenge of the mountain crossing. Just wish they had a cable car down because it was a long walk down to Iffigenalp to catch the bus. I don't like the trails that go steeply down. My knees are too old for that.
An early morning start
Looking back on the trail.
Ray on the trail to the mountain crossing
Ray on the trail
Ray waiting to see my reaction to the trail
And this was not the tricky bit. There was no way I was going to get my camera out to take any photos. My palms were so sweaty I would have dropped it. We came to a large boulder that was too high and too smooth for me to get over. I tried grabbing pieces of rock to the side of the boulder but they kept breaking away in my hand. So they weren't going to get me up and over.There was the tiniest of track around the boulder, no wider that a shoe width right on the edge of the cliff, but there was no way I could have walked there. So it was up and over or turn around and go back the way we had come. There was a fixed wire rope above the boulder but I was too short to reach it. So Ray had to hold onto the rope and pull me up. That sure had my heart rate up a tad!! Much of the crossing was on a steep, narrow, rocky trail like this.
Safely over the crossing and on our way down.
First glimpse of Iffigsee.
The trail down to Iffigenalp and the bus back to Lenk. What an exhilarating day!!!
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