10% rain probability :)

The hike last Sunday turned into an un-voluntary adventure!

The four of us, drove to Elm in canton Glarus. A beautiful setting - high mountains, blue sky loads of sun. We took the cable car up to Unteres Älmpächli and hiked up to the Gelbkopf peek / pass which is on ove 2000 meter above sea level.

The way up first was on a rather "Alpine highway" - which means a nice broad path. The last part then led us up an alpine meadow over stones, bushes and just by the cows.

The further up we went the more fog came up. Up at the pass we walked down a bit to the Chuenbodensee where we intended to make our lunch break. But... once down thunder started and we decided to rather continue our walk down. Within minutes then strong winds started, clouds came, more fog and it started to hail. Autsch!

There were some abondend huts were we climbed into and some other hikers joined. We waited until most of the thunderstorm and the heavy rain and hail was over. But the rain itself never stopped. So we had to go down in the rain. The small trail which led steep down a meadow was more like a river now and so we had to walk slow and watch every step very carefully.

About 1 hour down, we went into another hut, where other hikers made a fire and we could warm up a bit and ate a bite. All of us quite soaked - especially as we only had 2 rain jackets between the four of us. So we shared around any extra dry cloths....

Finally then down at the cable car again after 4.30 hours of nearly non-stopp walking, we warmed ourselves up with some tea and once at the car we heated it up o 27 degrees..

So far about te 10% rain probability for the hike, the weather forecast suggested ;)

Egypt

My holidays are over... already since two weeks. After one "free" week in Zurich, Fabian and me spent a week in Egypt close to Sham-el-Sheik.

As most guest were either Russian or from an Arabic Background and went for the pool rather than for the beach, the beach was close to empty an we could enjoy the silence there.

I loved the huge hamocks there, reading my book in the sunset.

The house reef was already really beautiful with loads of coloful fish. Fabian did two days of diving, one day I joined him on the boot. As the only snorchler on board I could snorchel around on my own, how and where I want.

The corals were stunning! I saw a huge sea turtle, napoleon fish, loads of others including trigger fish etc and my favorite the puffy fish :) so fluffly, you just want to take it home.