Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

In my day, never was longer.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

A consequence of cucumbers

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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Before I continue, I have to note that traveling from Chamonix to Grindelwald, we took six trains. We only had to wait between 5 and 20 minutes for each one.

Männlichen is a mountain that separates Grindelwald from Lauterbrunnen. It has excellent views all around, especially of the mountains that dwarf it, the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau. At a pass between here and the higher mountains is Kleine Scheidegg, where a cog railway connects the 2 valleys.

For this hike we took a gondola up from Grindelwald to Männlichen. From there we would walk a short spur trail called the Royal Walk, then turn around and head towards Kleine Scheidegg, then up to where the Eiger Express from Grindelwald drops off people off to get on the train to the Jungfraujoch (a spectacular viewpoint like Aiguille du Midi, but we didn’t go to this one), or to hike or climb or see the Eiger Glacier. After having lunch up there, we continued down to Wengen, a lovely town perched about 1,500 feet above Lauterbrunnen. From there we took a gondola back up to Männlichen and another back down to Grindelwald.

Today we’ll cover up to lunch time.

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Views to the peaks behind Lauterbrunnen valley. Embiggen

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Looking ahead at the Royal Walk. Embiggen

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Here we get the view down into Lauterbrunnen. Embiggen

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As we turn toward the big peaks, the Mönch’s peak gets exposed, but the Eiger and Jungfrau on each side remain hidden. Embiggen

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Looking down the other side to Grindelwald, where we were staying. Embiggen

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A flower with a bee. Embiggen

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Now the Eiger is in view, and here’s are the historic ascents. Embiggen

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Approaching the Eiger Glacier, we can now see the Jungfrau and Silberhorn (that’s the snowy triangle, below and to the right). Embiggen

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Looking up at the Mönch and the Eiger Glacier. At the bottom it’s hard to tell where the glacier stops as the dirt and rocks that were inside end up on top of it as it recedes. Embiggen

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Our view (of Jungfrau and Silberhorn, again) for lunch. Only a couple other people occasionally milled about – we had it to ourselves! Embiggen

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  8. 8.

    Ken

    Gorgeous pictures.

    But where are they really? I refuse to believe “Grindelwald,” “Jungfrau,” and “Männlichen” are real places, not from some (possibly-pornographic) Harry Potter knock-off.

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    Yutsano

    The majesty of mountains always gives me awe. But for some reason the bee on the flower is standing out to me in this series.

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    StringOnAStick

    We did this same trip 12years ago and before we had a decent camera so thank you for the wonderful photos!

    Most Americans know of the Eiger thanks to that cheesy sexist Clint Eastwood movie, when there is actually a huge body of excellent literature about the history of alpinism on this mountain.  Nowadays it is mostly only climbed in the winter because of dangerous rock fall during the warmer months.

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    BigJimSlade

    @Poe Larity: From a first glance at the 2018 self guided highlights, it looks like they went where we went, or where we are tempted to go next time :-)

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    TriassicSands

    In 1971, I soloed the Mönch in August. It looked nothing like this photograph (second to last). The route I did on the north face was almost completely snow and ice. Now, it is almost entirely rock. How could that possibly be explained? Certainly not by any changes in climate.

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    Dan B

    These photos are much more evocative than what I’ve seen before which is usually just photos from the roads and trains.  Kudos!

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