{"id":6639,"date":"2019-07-19T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:40:30","slug":"trachsellauenen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6639","title":{"rendered":"Trachsellauenen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re off to a place called Trachsellauenen. It&#8217;s the very last hamlet before the mountains that form the continental divide. There&#8217;s no public transport, so we walk up from Stechelberg. We have coffee and cake at the little hotel before tackling the steep path up the valley.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of streams to cross.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162408.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6632 alignnone size-full\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162408.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162408-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162408-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162408-1024x655.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Staggering glacial scenery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162434.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6633 alignnone size-full\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162434.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162434-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162434-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162434-1024x630.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stopped alongside the stream and ate our sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162500.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6634 alignnone size-full\" width=\"4024\" height=\"2868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162500.jpg 4024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162500-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162500-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162500-1024x730.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4024px) 100vw, 4024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162521.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6635\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162521.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162521-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162521-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162521-1024x714.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really rugged terrain, and we only come up here in very settled weather. The white stuff behind Val is snow. It&#8217;s easily 3 metres deep.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162547.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6636\" width=\"3340\" height=\"2186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162547.jpg 3340w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162547-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162547-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190719_162547-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3340px) 100vw, 3340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A good walk of about 13 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Photo-19-07-2019-16-22-36-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6638 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Photo-19-07-2019-16-22-36-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Photo-19-07-2019-16-22-36-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Photo-19-07-2019-16-22-36-1-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Photo-19-07-2019-16-22-36-1-1024x662.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re off to a place called Trachsellauenen. It&#8217;s the very last hamlet before the mountains that form the continental divide. There&#8217;s no public transport, so we walk up from Stechelberg. We have coffee and cake at the little hotel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}