Mount Titlis, Engelberg
Mount Titlis is a mountain of the Uri Alps, located on the border between the cantons (similar to counties) of Obwalden and Berne. The mountain is 3,238 meters above sea level. It has the world's first revolving cable car!
Grant and I hopped on a train early that morning to get in a full day of hiking. We probably ended up hiking about 10 miles by the end of the day.
We took a cable car halfway up the mountain. There was an alpine lake called Trubsee. There were boats perched by a dock open for people to take them. We practically ran to the boast & rowed out to the middle of the lake to have our lunch. The water was crystal clear mountain water and we were surrounded by 3 types of mountains on all sides of us. To one side were tall, jagged cliff-like mountains, to another were giant snow-peaked mountains, and on the last were rolling mountains far off in the distance.
Mount Titlis is a mountain of the Uri Alps, located on the border between the cantons (similar to counties) of Obwalden and Berne. The mountain is 3,238 meters above sea level. It has the world's first revolving cable car!
Grant and I hopped on a train early that morning to get in a full day of hiking. We probably ended up hiking about 10 miles by the end of the day.
We took a cable car halfway up the mountain. There was an alpine lake called Trubsee. There were boats perched by a dock open for people to take them. We practically ran to the boast & rowed out to the middle of the lake to have our lunch. The water was crystal clear mountain water and we were surrounded by 3 types of mountains on all sides of us. To one side were tall, jagged cliff-like mountains, to another were giant snow-peaked mountains, and on the last were rolling mountains far off in the distance.
We ate bread, avocados, cheese, grapes, and chocolate for lunch. Grant tried to catch grapes in his mouth and I laughed myself to tears when he tipped a little too far and almost fell off the boat. We were blissful and happy and I could not have enjoyed his company any more. He has a beautifully destructive nature to him. He wants to tip things over and step in puddles and break rules. He will spill avocado all over himself and will drop things that shouldn't be dropped, and I like him exactly that way.
After our boat ride, we saw a cliff and decided we wanted to climb it. There was no path, but we just started walking towards the cliff. Grant let me walk on his shoes to get across small streams and we got more and more excited as we neared the huge incline. It was a strenuous and steep hike. We had to cross barbed wire to get to the top, and we knew it was serious. I was grabbing handfuls of grass to pull myself up using hands and knees, up to the top.
When we arrived at the top, there was a large wooden cross. On the wooden cross hung a box. We opened the box to find a book full of stories and signatures of all the other people who had climbed to the top.
"You are You no matter where I am," I wrote.
We signed our names, yelled at the top of our lungs, ate a piece of chocolate, Grant smoked a cigarette, and then we climbed back down.
As soon as we began our descent, we realized we were headed right into the clouds. We had decided to hike about 3 hours down the mountain back to town.
We found ourselves in this mystical, magical land of misty clouds, sounds of distant waterfalls, and rocky paths. It really felt like a scene off of some movie, a horror scene, but a cool one none-the-less. Eventually, we descended out of the clouds again to a landscape that was covered in bright colors. There was moss covering everything, with autumn colored leaves contrasted against it. There were little waterfalls and streams of water paralleling us down the mountain.
We were joyous to begin hearing the sounds of cowbells realizing we were nearing the town's edge. It was a long, strenuous hike, but a beautiful one. Mount Titlis did not disappoint.
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