Monday, August 20, 2007

Cabane de Moiry to Zinal

We had a crappy breakfast - stale bread and jam....

We met a Canadian couple that were going to finish today - in Arolla. They were headed backwards after weather had delayed them halfway through.

We lost the trail that we were supposed to take to the Barrage de Moiry, so we cut down to the road and walked along it until we ran in to the trail again. We ran into a restaurant where we had a large pseudo breakfast. We then headed up for the 600 meters to the top. It was a nice trail, grassy, smooth and lots of long switch backs. We had also decided that we would take the cable car down from the ski resort to Zinal. Neither of our knees were up to the 1000m knee pounding descent.

We had an incredible view from the top of the col, except for some of the clouds. And we waved to Wim and Bararab (the Kiwis) as we were headed down in the cable car. They must have knees of steel.

We really wanted to do laundry when we got in to town, real laundry. So Kevin started calling the Tourist Office and found a gentleman who runs an apartment complex who would let us use his machines.....Ahhh fresh clothes.

We had dinner (it was long and good!) at a restaurant that was recommended by Benoist Germann (the laundry guy).

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