12.12 Waldspitz, a white-out day in thick snow
Wish you were here...having a lot of fun...hmm! Peering through the clouds, only for a moment. The position is incredible but without visuals one is obviously disappointed. What a week . We achieved the highest elevation gain ever: 14,600 feet in five hikes over six days. The middle day was for resting in which we still had to get from the village to our house, a mean trip in itself. It sounds boastful but it is a fact and we suppose we want to enjoy it. It seems crazy that our vertical gain was 2.8 miles. We salute our editor who continues to confound us, astound us and make us feel quite inadequate. Wait until she finds what we have planned. The days began with rain at our altitude. Things were not looking great when the internet failed, the kitchen sink overflowed, covering the floor in soapsuds. The toilet was not flushing well, the shower basin did not drain and to top it all, the sewage flowed freely in the laundry, positioned within smelling distance of our bedr...