Reinebringen Hike

Today we woke up to a rainbow out the front window! Really rainbows all day! It’s like every day we see at least one which is so fun! I’ve never seen so many before!

Then it started raining while we were eating breakfast so we had a relaxed morning waiting for the rain to clear up. My radar said it would be by 10:30 so we planned to leave around then for our hike, which we did see the sun started to come out then so off we went. Our hike today was up Reinebringen mountain which is 500 meters of elevation gain in 1.1km!! That is so steep! The trail itself was really just stairs until the last little section - almost 2,000 of them! It started off not too bad, but the stairs quickly became very steep and I was stopping every 50-100 steps for a quick break for some water or to take off a layer. It was cold and hot at the same time as there would be a really cold breeze that would come though and it would sprinkle/misty rain for a few minutes, but it always quickly rolled through. You could see the rain blowing in sheets when it was there. So the view on the way up was fine, just the water and a bit of other mountain, but after we reached the ridge the view was AMAZING!! It looked out over the mountains that we saw of our car window! I loved it so so much! Definitely worth the hike up there!

We got to the peak and it was so windy and freezing cold and a muddy mess we didn’t stay long, but there were more rainbows and we went back down to the the first point on the ridge and had lunch there enjoying the views. It was still freezing, but I had my layers on and it was okay. We had a nice, long, relaxing break and I enjoyed it so much!! Then it was back down - in the first photo with stairs after the top there is a bright squiggly line to the right of the road - that is the wet trail shining in the sun! Once we got down we walked down the road a bit to see the trail from below and it looks so crazy from there. Yesterday we had seen people hiking it and I thought I really don’t know if we will be able to do that because it looked so so steep and maybe out of my wheelhouse like the rocks and chains yesterday, but it was just stairs so it was all good. I marked the trail in purple about where it is in that photo which I don’t know if it looks that crazy in the photo, but in real life it does. Then walking back to the car we got another rainbow! All the rainbows!

We got back to the car around 2 and had a bit of a rest with some tea, then around 3 the low clouds rolled in and you couldn’t see the mountains anymore and it started raining and had been ever since. We got lucky with our clear view!! What a great hike, but I am tired now! The last photo is from running errands after the rain started, but some of those mountains were peaking out. Tomorrow is a more relaxed day which will be good especially after the hike today!Read more