I'm actually back home from Kandersteg now, but catching up on posts :)
Another bunch of pictures from one of my days off - this time a hike up to the Lammerenhutte. I'm slowly working through all the mountain huts on the map, and I've only got three left now - Gspaltenhornhutte, Bluemisalphutte and the Lohnerhutte.
We (Malcolm (ZA), Sara (IT), Laura (UK) and me) first took the Sunnbuel cable car up and started hiking along the Gemmi valley to Daubensee, a fairly large and pleasant lake. The Gemmi is not particularly difficult or steep, but it is quite long - we only got to the end of the valley for about 1pm. Having lunch next to the lake was really nice, and we had a bit of a paddle and a play in the mud (which was really cool - it would stick to your feet then dry to become like a shoe).
From there we headed into the Lammeren valley and toward the Lammerenhutte itself. This was also fairly easy, but very pretty until we neared the hut. Then there was a pretty steep and exhausting climb up to 2502m. The hut is really quite big, especially compared to the Balmhornhutte, it also had some cool bits and pieces outside. These included a really long slack line and a pair of ice climbing practice tree trunks (I unfortunately forgot to take a picture).
From the hut we headed back pretty much the same way we came up, but on the other side of the lake and got the last cable car down. All in all, a very nice day out.
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