Day 4 Gondola to Fuorcla Surlej

It was a 20,000 step day today - quite proud of ourselves. It started with a lovely walk along Lake Silverplaner - lots of kite surfers out, then a 2 hour hike to the base of the Covatsch gondola. We were now at 1870 meter, but feeling fine.

Amazing views of Lake Silverplaner and Lake Sils heading up to the mid station, then a steep climb to the look out point of Fuorcij Surlej. Great photo ops here with the 3 glaciers in the background. A quick lunch of homemade - not actually homemade - noodle soup, good chats, then we headed back down.

The men decided to take another route,down, their parting words being “If we’re not back by midnight, send out a search party.” Madeline & I arrived at mid station and there was no sign of them. Thinking they were totally happy on their own - no doubt solving the problems of the world - we waited a bit, then decided to head down but to keep an eye out for them, of course.

At the base they still weren’t there, so we walked all the way home, picking up 2 pizzas on the way. We arrived home about 5:45, and they came back shortly there after seemingly disgruntled. They said they’d let 2 gondolas pass waiting for us . . . We have our doubts. . . .
Pizza, wine, beer, good chats and US World Cup tennis - a fitting ending to a great day.Read more