A Sundays Stroll on the Weissenstein (3rd Feb 2008)

Christine and I had decided to get some fresh air and see some snow and sunshine.
We thus headed for the Weissenstein, carrying along our GPS and a list of caches to be discovered. We took an airy, old cable car up to the top, eagerly awaiting to top out of the mist, which we eventually did. Brilliant sunshine, crisp snow and the Swiss Alps taking up the Southern horizon!






View from the Weissenstein towards the Swiss Alps


The beech forest was partly covered with ice and was magnificent to look at.



Beech forest.























We tramped up to the highest point of the range: 1395.5m asl.
Here we noticed some big cornice overhanging the cliff with the stiff wind drifting snow over the lip.



























Cornice on Roeti (1395.5m)



Snow structures formed by wind.


We then went after a number of geocaches, not trivial with the snow cover, but I was surprised to be rather effective at finding the boxes, annoying Christine who wanted to find a cache herself for once ;-)

















En route to our last cache.


















Christine beating the track towards the horizon through wonderful powder snow.












From that last cache we headed for the valley, descending a good 600 metres in a short time by jogging along snowy tracks.

A good day's outing indeed!