Route climbing too
Next stop on our Swiss climbing road trip: Göschenenalp, and route climbing on the Kompressorwand wall. Göschenenalp was one of our most favorite places on the trip. Grit and Manu shared with us that the tiny town of Göschenen has a population of about 20 people and is one of the only high alps mountain towns that is continuously inhabited year-round, meaning in winter, the town is cut off from civilization due to snow. One morning Grit and I hiked up the hill on a trail through the woods from the campground to the town in search of much needed showers. The “town” consists of a church, a restaurant and lodge, a few homes, and what looked to be a dormitory-style apartment structure / hut, of which contained a coin-operated shower in which I took the shortest shower of my life. The town relies heavily on summer tourism (which is now making me ponder why I didn’t just go ahead and use 10 Swiss francs for a long leisurely shower instead of 3?), and so the restaurant with locally grown and prepared food is quite the hot-spot for tourists. The blueberries for the blueberry tiramisu and blueberry ice cream are picked fresh from the mountainside. And I would assume so is the oregano, as I found myself sitting in an entire hillside of it while snapping photos of the kids climbing the routes.
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