It was just a short three weeks ago on August 31 when it was warm enough that we wanted to get out of the city and into the woods. (It's a lot colder now). Previously in our adventures we had walked from the Uetliberg to Buchenegg down to Sihlau, or from the Uetliberg to Felsenegg and then the cable car down to Adliswil. This hike would start at Felsenegg and continue pass Buchenegg to Albispass. The photo at the end of the post will show you the hike as viewed from downtown Zürich.
The weekend before we had gone to Mt. Rigi for a walk down and ZDG had used his Camelbak to carry our water. LGG liked drinking out of the Camelbak so we tried to see if she could carry her own water in the Camelbak waistpak. It was too heavy filled with water, but it's never too early to practice wearing a "pack" so she wore it for the hike (with a stuffed buddy inside). I carried her water pouch in my bag. Here are LGG and ZDG with their Camelbaks.
Here we are on the hill down to Buchenegg. It's a pretty little town (but without any bus service as we had found out previously).
A pretty restaurant garden.
And LGG displaying her balancing skills.
After the hike we went to Zürich and here's the view from near Burkliplatz. If you look at the fountain and then go up to the ridge you can see a tower to the left of a lump. That is the tower at Felsenegg and where we started our hike (with the help of the cable car from Adliswil). If you go to the left you'll see a little valley and that's Buchenegg (kind of above the sailboat). Then you go gradually uphill and then back downhill to the next notch and that's Ablispass where we ended our hike. We were debating whether to continue, but the next bus was arriving in 5 minutes and we took that as a sign to end the hike. So we took the bus to Thalwil and the next train back to Zürich.
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