8/10/2009 Last 3 days in the Swiss Alps

The following are pics of the last 3 days... I try to explain where we are at least... all the villages for the most part are car free so you park outside the village then you walk into them or take a train. The Swiss Alps definitely live up to the hype, and these pictures do them no justice what so ever. Enjoy.





That little village you see on the other side of the valley... that is Grachen.. where we are staying for the week.





What Zermatt looks like while you are in it.





Zermatt... this is the last village before Matterhorn... our hike started down there... this was supposed to be a nice relaxing day... which it was.





Matthias and I above Zermatt... up by Riffelberg somewhere





Swiss cow and Matterhorn... this is taken up at Riffelberg.






Lunch break under Matterhorn





El Matterhorn






You can never take enough pictures of something so cool like Matterhorn.





Panoramic of Matterhorn and surrounding mountains.





DAS MATTERHORN





MATTERHORN






Matterhorn with clouds and sun behind it.





Traditional buildings in Torbel, neighbor village of Grachen.





Typical Swiss building... this is taken in Torbel, neighbor village of Grachen.





This is a church in Torbel... a little village 2000 meters above the sea... and across the valley from Grachen.





The colors on these trees are unbelievable... that is me standing next to a little stream, this hike started up at Moosalp... on the other side of the valley from Grachen.





Matthias and I up by Seetalhorn... grabbed a quick lunch up there then headed back down the mountain... probably the most physically demanding hike I have ever done.






Destination Seetalhorn... it is the tallest peak there, we could not climb any higher because climbing gear would have been required.





A Santa stature in a round about in St. Niklaus... a town in the valley underneath Grachen where we are staying.





Brett Favre after throwing his first td on MNF... streamed online in Switzerland!