Following Hopkins in Switzerland pt. 3
100: Hôtel Bellevue on t. Little Scheidegg:
walked to; peaked Silberhorn,
barely glimpsed but Eiger & Jung-
frau obscured; two tips of glacier
hanging like thrown pelt around Jungfrau.
Grindelewald: down to it, past pretty
101: falling stream, violets, to glacier
dazzling in sunlight—upper & lower
glacier, & absurd grotto visited.
102: Mts. Seen fr. There: Metterber, Vie-
scherhörner, Scheckhörner, Wetter-
hörner, Eigen; beautiful syncomores.
Faulhorn climbed, brief view from
top; bluest gentianellas on banks,
opaque green of Lake Brienz fr. Top,
green slopes near Bättenalp hollow.
103: Finster(n) Aarhorn seen on way down,
like lonely high-gabled steeple.
Baths of Rosenlaui: lunched there on
way down—sketched n 106
Meyringen: fr. Rosenbaui via Reichen-
bach valley in torrent, w. its 3
falls like spilled rice (as at Handeck
Ctd. N105 (p.1)
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My Route, Dec. 1950
1. Lyon-Geneva-Lausanne- Vevey-
Martigny-Visp- St. Niklaus-Zermatt.
2.Gornergrat-Zermatt-Visp-Brig
-Spiez-Interlaken.
3. Lauterbrunnen- Hleine Scheidegg-
Grindlewald-Zweilützchingen-
Intgerlaken- Brienz-Meiringen.
4. Brünig Pass-Lungern-Alpuach-Her-
giswyl-Lucerne.
5. Küssnacht- Arth- Zug- Zurich.
6. Baden- Rheinfelden- Basel -> Strassburg