I looked up on a map where to drive to for the hike. There was a place called "First" by Grindewald that we could do a two hour hike from.
I found the same route to this place on both our car's Navigation and on google maps. Ian and I wandered through narrow and steep hills that were accompanied by gorgeous landscapes.
We reached a Gondola station called "Bort", but the road continuing was closed by construction. We went in to ask for directions around the construction and were told that it was impossible to have driven to where we were without entering private property and passing through farming reserves and that the fines for driving there were huge.
Awesome swiss lifty: "How the hell did you get that up here?"
Me "The roads were a bit steep and really narrow at some points but it wasn't too bad."
Swiss guy: "Are the roads not blocked? I've been working here ten years, and have never been able to drive up here without a farmer kicking me out!"
Figure 1: Picture of Ian and I taken by the awesome Swiss lifty.
Long story short, we didn't get to the hike, instead we drove back down and took the Gondola up to Bort where we rented road scooters (gravity powered)! After a quick run, we decided to push them back up the hill and have another go, as we got a two hour rental on the scooters. The hill took us about 1 hour to get back up.
Figure 2: Our scenic way up the Mountain.
We met up with Josh and Phil who went up a Gondola at the other side of town and had awesome strudels.
After meeting up again at around 230 we embarked to our next hotel near Como.
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