Climb Every Mountain Part 2

Zermatt 2.2 6/8/2023

Cody absolutely loved the snow. He went crazy and learned new aerobatic tricks. We found several alpine ponds surrounded by snow for him to explore.

This hike was CRAZY. We climbed every mountain set before us on this path. We searched high and low for the best possible routes. We even forded every stream known and unknown in our path. We did not follow rainbows and yet many bucket list items or dreams were found.

Yes it was downhill for the most part, but we chose paths in snow. Parts of the snow paths were covering creek beds, which were waking up from winter IN JUNE! Why is this important, because we came to a place where we were walking along and all of the sudden our next step dropped us up to our knees in snow and our feet in running water. Have you ever hiked in knee deep snow unprepared? Luckily most of us were wearing hiking pants and some sort of boot. (We learned fast from the Matterhorn training adventure trail just yesterday.) We went from cautious foot placements to following other deep steps and laughing.

The views and the day remained beautiful, despite the 7 day forecast of rain.

Once back in the village we stopped to see the hotel that Uncle Greg stayed in as a little kid. He even had a letter he wrote to his uncle on the hotel stationary with him in hand.