Oeschinensee, Switzerland

Another beautiful day, you know we could have gone to Scotland!

Today was to be another "Expedition" exploration.  we were to take the chair lift up to the top of the hill behind the bunkhouse and walk over to the Oeschinensee, have a look at the lake and surrounding areas before returning.

The journey up followed the same route as we had used the previous summer..So just to be consistent ..  I took a matching photo through the woods to the lake.


Dave, wondered if anyone would notice if he swapped his Ice axe for the pickaxe at the bunk house!! but they would not let him on the chair lift with it.

At the lake it was already being used by the occasional XC skier, but in general we had it to our selves, and marvelled at walking on the ice. until it became slightly slushy as the day progressed and retreat was called for.

A spot of lunch on the firmer side of the lake  (the one that had not been in the sun all day), and we followed this by checking out an old ice pillar, now more a snow mound at the far end of the lake.

 Struggling off the ice onto the soft snow was again an issue, and our minds went back to the previous trip to the ice falls.

All too soon it was time to head back, but not before Dave tried out is golf skills with snow balls and then his lack of baseball coordination, much to the amusement of us all.