Mt Vogel Hike Part 1

Today we woke up to foggy skies again, but we checked the webcams and it was sunny and gorgeous in the mountains with potential rain this afternoon so we headed out for our mountain hike. First we headed up the cable car that was right by camp - it takes you up 1,000m in 4 min which was pretty quick! It zoomed up the hill! By the time we got on that the fog had almost completely cleared up and the views were absolutely gorgeous!! The top of the cable car was so nice! You could see all the mountains all over and I loved it so much.

After spying on all the things at the top of the cable car (including some alpacas and wooden sculptures) we took a chairlift up almost another 200m to where we would start our hike. It was another gorgeous ride, it took a lot longer, but you could just sit and enjoy the views! But then we went over a ridge and there was a freezing cold wind! I was like umm…we should have brought gloves and all our winter gear! I was not prepared for that! But once we got off and bundled up with what we had and started hiking I did get too hot so it wasn’t needed after all, but that last part of the chairlift was freezing! And after spying on all the things we were off! In the photo with the cross on the left the peak just to the right of that was our goal - Mt Vogel. The hike was absolutely gorgeous! It was basically a ridge walk and you could see out over all the mountains the entire time and I loved it so so much. These are my favorite type of hikes! Up in the mountains and I can see all the things and it is so beautiful! I definitely think this was the best hike we did on our trip (at least so far, but I think it will be hard to top).

Our hike was sunny and gorgeous, but as we walked we started getting to the cloudy side of the mountains. And the wind was crazy at times! And cold! But it was mostly uphill so actually nice to keep me cool.Read more