Stanna broke up this next leg into a short and medium distance legs because looking at the distance and the elevations might have been too much for a Wednesday hiking lady. As it was, taking a more leisurely hike worked out fine with the sun finally shining and the desire to do things like pick blackberries (who’d have thunk, this late in the summer) along the way.

Our guidebook, (Kev’s Via Alpina), actually suggests taking the funicular off route to a “ledge-locked” and car-less resort community above Linthal called Braunwald. Similar to Zermatt, only in that they don’t allow or have anything motorized except a variety of golf carts. Views from here looks both from the pass we came from and the mountains we’ll cross next.

Photo above with the arrow is the snowy pass from yesterday. The long traverse across a number of alps took us to tiny village (dorf in German) with not even a post office or a grocery store. Far more cows than people in this neck of the mountains. We re-supplied our lunch provisions from a small cheese factory on the highway passing thru.

Fortunately, our hamlet hotel had what every hiker needs in the way of rewards.