The weather closed in again .. rain falling with clouds over all the peaks, and after 4 consecutive days out, today would be an easier day.
After a morning messing with the media, and speculating on the political nature of the world corona virus event, the rain eased up.
I suggested (or bribed Bryon with) a walk down to the
Mangold bakery and back. I had in mind taking in the nature trail on the bump behind the apartment.
The trail started at the reservoir and went first up to the treetop adventure playground.
From the adventure park it would up the hill to the zip wire - now slackened off and dormant
From the zip wore it climbed to the top of the hill where there was a large tower. the sign indicated this was a survey tower to keep the correct angles so that the hydro station kept working etc.
There was also a lookout point that opened out to the valley below.
At this point I somehow lost the nature trail and was seduced to follow the large road, down the other side.
Unfortunately this road ended in a pile of logs ... evidently only used to fell trees and collect logs.
however it was on the course of a mountain footpath (flashes and everything), we just had to drop down to it over a slippery bank.
This path got even steeper as it came down over the nose of this hillock .. I do not know how the off-road bike went down it, just seeing the tracks made me nervous.
The track eased off and came to a flatter bit and met a wider road, before heading down again in a not so steep angle, until we came out in the fields above the village outskirts.
The route had taken us down the skyline, and then over some fields and though a network of village roads until we came out by the bank in the centre of the village.
Knowing where we were then it was easy to walk around to the bakery ... coffee and cake .. sustenance for the long walk back up the road.
On the way I saw these painted tins being used as post protectors
On the map you can see that we should have gone North from the top of the hill and then down the other side before coming around to the village on the road past Krista.
