Thursday 22nd August

After our big day yesterday, today we opted for a quiet, no hiking day, and  took the car to another valley that would have taken too long on public transport, even though it was free with our card. Our day was to Lunersee. Lunersee is reached after a long twisty drive high up into the mountains followed by a chair-lift, again free with our card. An awesome location and extremely popular because of the ease to reach the See and Douglass Hutte that stands on the edge of the See. A majority of huts are located in remote and hard-to-get-to places that make it nearly impossible for older, less agile people to ever visit. Not so Lunersee.

Surrounded by high mountains, the See is filled each year by melting snow. The high-level mark is clearly visible.

                                                    Looking back down the valley.

The wires for the chair-lift can be seen coming down from the top of the mountain. Not the one on the left. This is one of the steepest chair-lifts we have taken in all our trips.

                                                               Friday 23rd August

Our last day in Gaschurn and the weather is forecast to be rainy. Apparently??? Looked good when we woke up so off we went on our reliable valley bus to Schruns and the Hoch-joch chair-lift to Kapell and then the lift to Sennigrat at 2289m. The views from the top were amazing and any photo could never do justice to the far-reaching views. We walked to Wormser Hutte and then back down to Kapell via the Seeweg , visiting Herzsee, Schwarzsee and Speichersee.

                                   This is looking down on Herzsee from near Wormser Hutte.

                                                                      Speichersee

                                                              View down to Schruns.

                                          The dip in between the 2 mountains holds Herzsee

                                          Farms that scatter the hillsides through-out the valley.

The day was beautiful so it doesn't pay to listen to the forecasters. A little bit cloudy and hazy with such a lot of moisture in the air, but still a great day with great views. Had lunch in Schruns and waited for the shops to re-open. They shut for lunch from midday until 2.00pm. This is really frustrating as people are usually getting down from the mountains then and everything is shut except for restaurants.

Off to Engelberg tomorrow in the heart of the Swiss Alps. End of school holidays for some this week-end so I hope traffic is ok for the trip. About 250kms by the quickest route but I usually like to try roads off the major highways. We will just wing it and see tomorrow which way we end up going. So it will be a couple of days before my next blog. Cheers for now. Talk again soon.