Bergamo, Italy to Innsbruck, Austria Alps Hiking Trip
August 4 - August 17, 2019
Page Three: Livigno, Italy
and Davos, Switzerland
The next day a cable car brought us to a mountain
ridge for
a hike. We passed grazing sheep.
View from a chalet where we had
lunch before proceeding.
Farmer we stopped and talked to.
As we were getting back into Livigno,
we saw this little fellow
crossing the trail.
Looking back to where we had hiked, while
waiting for our
bus to drive us through town
back to our hotel in Livigno.
A colorful restaurant in Livigno.
Jeff and I ate dinner there outside.
Livigno is in the Italian Alps, near the Swiss border.
Livigno's
economy is now based on tourism, winter
and summer. It is
a ski resort town.
Angela and Zeke Dumpke, Tom and Heidi Smart,
from the
Salt Lake City area. Angela and Tom
are siblings.
Elizabeth Smart (who was kidnapped)
at age 14 and held for 9 months)
is their niece.
The following day we crossed the Italian border into
Switzerland.
We hiked into a canyon, along a tributary
of the Danube.
At the end of the hike, we drove into the small town of Zernez
at the foot of the Swiss National Park, oldest in the Alps. We
visited a museum on the natural history of the area and ran into
this scary creature.
Zernez, Switzerland
Driving away from Zernez, Switzerland.
View from our Hotel Schatzalp in Davos, Switzerland,
on a
mountainside above Davos. We reached the
hotel via funicular.
View from our room at Hotel Schatzalp,
looking down on Davos.
Edelweiss planted around the hotel.
The hotel has a botanical garden
with many native plants.
The next morning we started hiking
from the hotel on a very
cloudy morning.
Cows seen in the fog while hiking up to
a funicular that took
us to the summit
of Weissfluhjoch (only 8,835 ft.)
It started clearing at the summit,
so we had some beautiful
views.
Jeff got closer to the edge than I wanted to.
Child playing in snow on the summit.
We had lunch at a restaurant up top. Heidi Smart with
enormous cow bells above her.
More edelweiss at the Hotel Schatzalp.
Jeff and I did a hike on our own from the hotel later the same
day. Here is a view of the Hotel Schatzalp. Built more than 100
years ago as a sanatorium, it was the inspiration for Thomas
Mann's "The Magic Mountain" (his wife was a patient here).
Flowers seen on our hike.
Poisonous mushroom, which we
also have in Colorado.
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