{"id":54,"date":"2016-06-21T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtest.cowebtech.ca\/?p=54"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:38:23","slug":"rigi-and-swiss-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Rigi and the Swiss cows"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an extended layover in Switzerland this week, so I decided to go and hike Mount Rigi.  For those that don’t know, Rigi is close to Luzern, about one hour outside of Zurich.<\/p>\n

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It’s not an overly challenging hike, but I attempted it in bad weather in the hopes that the rain would hold off.  The first part of the hike goes up a rather steep section of switchbacks, but the trail itself is in very good condition.  At one point there is a rest shelter, about half way up. I stopped here when it started to rain.<\/div>\n
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Good signs on the mountain, with a view of fog in the background.  The times seem to be a little exaggerated unless you hike quite slowly.<\/div>\n
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I continued the hike when the rain passed.  The trail goes steeply through a field after the shelter.  Unfortunately Mother Nature decided to open the heavens at this point, and since I had no shelter, I got totally soaked!  By the time I reached the summit I was pretty much dripping water!<\/div>\n
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The fun part was while it was raining I could hear all these bells around me.  Historically, Swiss farmers put bells around the cows to find them on the mountain.  Now I think it’s mostly for tourists.  Either way, I could hear the cow, but not see it until it shoved its nose into my arm! Thankfully the cows on Rigi seem to be friendly!<\/div>\n
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A nice viewpoint on the top, but a view of only fog.<\/div>\n
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Right at the top they are running a steam train for the anniversary of Rigi.  I didn’t see what it cost, but I got a few pictures if it on the way down.  I thought it was really neat as I have never seen a steam train in operation before.<\/div>\n
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I had an extended layover in Switzerland this week, so I decided to go and hike Mount Rigi.  For those that don’t know, Rigi is close to Luzern, about one hour outside of Zurich. It’s not an overly challenging hike, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,41,42],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland","tag-hiking","tag-rigi","tag-swiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}