yep, another “last walk this year” walk 
mrs d has worked out a circular walk starting in lachen then up to stöcklichrüz (non-german speakers: this requires an update to your laryngeal system to pronounce right…) onwards to gueteregg (aiming for a lunch at the gueteregg alp) and back via pfifegg to lachen.
it’s a another “small” tour — hah! — of only 23km and we are aiming for 6 hours to finish it…it’s 9:25 by the time we reach lachen (hard to believe, but that stanchion of reliability, that defender of the punctual timetable, the SBB, was dawdling for 5 minutes in lovely pfäffikon instead of leaving on time!) and the fog has still not lifted. as a consequence it’s quite chilly and i’m glad to have brought with me the gloves and the fleece buff!
it’s only when we reach bräggerhof that we leave the fog behind and are in full, unobscured sun shine! the view is just fantastic —
— and we quickly shed the winter garments and make our way to stöcklichrüz! the weather is really fantastic up here, above the clouds, and we take lots of pictures. yep, mrs d has got herself a camera and is taking pictures as if she’s never done anything else on our walks 
we reach gueteregg 30min ahead of our schedule and are pleased to see that its “pub” is still open — and so are approximately 30 other walkers and mountain bikers: the place is brimming. we have lunch with beer (an einsiedler for me) and cidre (for mrs d).
filled up we trundle down along the way to pfifegg — only to have to climb 100 altitude meter again to reach rindsweidhorn (they do have funny names, don’t they?) from where it’s an almost “level” walk to pfifegg.
pfifegg surprises us with magnificent views towards the wäggital, an area that we’ve come to really love walking-wise.
then it’s almost straight back to lachen, downhill all the way. halfway down the fog welcomes us back and seems to want to make up for the “lost time” by becoming rather thick. at times it’s a bit of a struggle to stay on the path — it’s 16:50 when we reach lachen station again: +20min on our original schedule.
a fantastic day!
p.s. oh, and we took some nice pictures as well, mrs d’s are here, mine are here
happy.
