Late fall & early winter in Switzerland, part 1

I'm sorry to see this blog seems to fall asleep, we're back from a week of hiking and (little) climbing in Switzerland for two weeks and still no tale or picture about it!

So...
Something like 10 years ago, it was kind of a tradition among some parts of the Belgian Alpine Club to go to Grindelwald somewhere in early november, to do some hiking and/or climbing. I believe it's mainly weather conditions that time of the year that made this habbit fade away: too much fresh snow already, or otherwise bad weather, made the "real" climbing not a good idea, and most people don't like a seven hours drive to do "some walking".

But we did have a lot of fun those days, and it might be us getting older, but Geert and I got the idea of returning to Grindelwald, to have some kind of a reunion with the friends who also where there before, and remember the old days. That was the original plan.
But as it turned out, we were the only ones supporting this idea. Modern times with overfilled agenda's, lack of holidays and changed interests played their role... and at the end even Geert was prevented to participate due to a new job!

Lucky for me, C1sc0, who wasn't there in the old days, joined in, and with some preparation for Canada in mind, the two of us spent an intense week of mainly hiking and some climbing in the Berner Oberland.

Story to be continued..