Biking at one of Europe’s most beautiful regions, wow, stunning, amazing, big… The Aletsch glacier belongs to Unesco’s World heritage and is just beautiful!!!!!
Another day off work for me, the sun was shining, so the decision was clear to drive to Fiesch. The starting point for my bike tour. As I’m a lazy biker 😉 hahaha, I took the convenience of the cable car and started from Fiescheralp. http://www.aletsch.ch/
It was a Sunday, so crowds of hikers on the mountain, well no wonder… That was the reason that I started out late, to avoid the crowds… Interesting to watch people up there 😉 On the mountains you can see everything, all sorts of hikers. From the woman with a sexy dress, to stupid people, to unexperienced mountain hikers, to… a lot of weird people 😉 hahaha… And of course, hikers have the preference to walk first, us bikers are “gentleman/women” and wait ;-)…
When I got to the Gletscherstube it was already around 3 p.m. Still crowds of people coming up from the glacier… As I didn’t want to go on confrontation with them, I decided to chill and relax at the lake and bike down to the glacier a bit later… Good decision… On my downhill to the Aletschglacier not many hikers came along the way, so wohoooo :-)… Quite bumpy though ;-)… Without a Fully, the ride wouldn’t have been a great one… Finally I got down to the beginning of the glacier and met some belgian hikers, that just came back from a hike at the glacier… They where on the way for more than 9 hours and you could see how exhausted they were… The asked me what the shortest way down to the valley was… Well, still a few more hours to go ;-)…
Carried the bike a bit up on the glacier to bike a few meters, yes I biked on a glacier 😉 and went up to the Gletscherstube again, where one of my greatest downhills has started!!!! Wow, soooo cool and as it was already late in the afternoon, turning to evening, nobody in the way 🙂 AWESOME!!!!!
The downhill was amazing! Challenging, flowy, not tooo hard and never ending…
To get an impression of the day, here is a video edit from the day…
Enjoy watching 🙂
….and here some more pix of the day…
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