I wanted to give a sense of the adventures that I undertook several years ago in Interlaken, Switzerland. At the top is a photograph of a paraglider landing in an open field. You start higher in the Alps and basically run down a sloping meadow and straight off a cliff with towering pine trees 100ft tall seemingly reaching for your your ankles. In reality, even they are hundreds of feet below you by the time the wind has filled the chute and you glide over the town. Interlaken literally means "between two lakes." It is a small Swiss town nestled in a valley within the Alps and surrounded by two glacial lakes. The site from above is beyond awe inspiring!
Next, you see some pics of people participating in canyoning. (Please note: none of these are my pics. I have some, but you know I can get lazy with the details. One day I'll scan and post them, but for now, you'll have to view others I yanked from the ol' Internet). In any case, canyoning involved repelling, cliff jumping, zip lines, bouldering and rafting without a whitewater raft. While fairly safe, there was a party of some 20 people that were killed in a flash flood several weeks after I left the last time.
The last pic is of a guy doing some sheer face ice climbing off a glacier. They basically take 150ft of rope, throw it over the edge, and you repel down to the end of it. Then you climb back up over the edge. Looks like he is close.
If we do make it to Switzerland, we will spend more of a relaxing time. Probably do some mountain biking, hiking and taking in the beauty and crisp clean air.
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