The day was a little hazy and cloudy, but quite warm. The hike was really beautiful. We hiked through a forest that smelled like Minnesota (all pine-y and wood-smoke-y) and through rocky hillsides covered with Alpine flowers, with beautiful views of mountains surrounding us. It really is times like this when I wonder how on earth I ended up being so lucky to live in a place where I can easily go hiking in the Alps and be surrounded by such beauty.
We hiked up to the top and enjoyed the views from a terrace at the top. We ended up starting back late enough that we took the gondola down the mountain, since we had to get our bags from the train station before the man left for the night.
From Leysin we started back to Zürich, with a stop for fondue in Fribourg at Rachel and Harold's favorite fondue place. The fondue was really quite excellent, and it felt so exotic to start out the day in Geneva, train to the mountains and have a beautiful hike, then train back to Zürich, stopping in a random city to have great fondue. Overall, it was quite a lovely trip.
