Travelling Photographer

We left Montreux at 9:30 in a rail car (Golden Pass Express), which was 80% windows. The first leg of our journey was a scenic climb to Gstaad about 2 hours away. The train needed to zig-zag up the mountain because it was a flat rail rather than a cogwheel train. At Gstaad, we boarded a cable car to reach the summit and Glacier 3000 winter park in the Vaudois Alps. It was clear at the base of the mountain, but as we ascended from 5000 ft to the summit at 9500ft it became cloudier until visibility approached zero. Fortunately, there were breaks which allowed Chris to ride a mountain roller coaster. However, when we headed to walk the peak-to-peak suspension bridge, very little visibility was available- no matter that we hiked across into the clouds. After lunch at a mountain top restaurant, we descended by. gondola and headed to Gstaad to again ride the Golden Pass Express to Interlaken. We were able to walk the town center before we boarded another regular railway to our final destination for the evening – Grindelwald. For tonight and tomorrow, we are staying at Hotel Schweizerhof, a “Romantic Chain Hotel”.