Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

We still have time to mess this up!

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

People are complicated. Love is not.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

This fight is for everything.

“But what about the lurkers?”

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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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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