At the Top and Back Down

We made it to the top. Thankfully, it was getting close to two. IF I had read the sign wrong, and the cable car wouldn't start up again, I saw there was a bus (seriously-- I could have ridden up on a BUS???) leaving to go down to the town at 15:15. We were set. Had some potato soup and bread, walked around, took some photos. Walked some more and looked over into Czech Republic, but we weren't how far the border was so didn't go looking for the photo op of a border crossing.

We saw the wedding people come out of the station and take pictures. Finally, they loaded up into the gondola, and were off, except for the two guys hauling cases of liquor to their car. No offer to us folks waiting to share a couple bottles. We bought our tickets, then got in line to make our way back to bottom of the mountain with a handful of other bedraggled looking people.

Beautiful scenery. Don't regret the hike at all, and up was probably better than down, to be honest. I wouldn't mind coming back in summer or fall for more hiking. Definitely regret the Columbia snow-hiking boots. They're a disaster.

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