Today's hike took us to the snow line, high above the tree line, frequently crossing rocky streams and through alpine pastures with abundant wildflowers.
All the time we were surrounded by huge snow capped peaks. The trail varied from good to very muddy and stoney with both steep ascents and descents. It was reasonably well signposted too compared to yesterday when we did get a bit lost. Thankfully my trusty companion has good map reading skills and brought a compass. All in all today we covered about 15 kms. The weather was brilliant sunshine with a slight cooling breeze.
At our mid morning break we tried a mug of buttermilk, the beverage of choice for hikers here. And of course cake was involved - a beautiful and huge slice of apricot kuchen with a snowball sized dollop of cream !!
I'd love to try that buttermilk!
Posted by: Margaret | 06/27/2012 at 04:45 PM
Not so sure about the buttermilk, but mmmmm, that cake looks good! And may I just say that your traveling companion isn't so bad to look at either! :-)
Posted by: Kelly @ JAX does design | 06/27/2012 at 05:00 AM