Climbing Mt. Pilatus

View while hiking up

We just got home from hiking Mt. Pilatus in Lucerne. Our friends Stacey and Alex had asked us earlier in the week if we wanted to go hiking on Sunday. Nate and I have never really been big hikers but it always sounds fun and I want to do more of it so we were up for it. We finally decided on Lucerne and when we arrived this morning, our original plan was to take the gondola up to the second stop and just hike all the way down from there. Can you even say hike at that point since it’s all downhill? I’m not sure. Anyways, we got up there and decided to hike uphill for just a bit, towards Mt. Pilatus, so that we weren’t just doing downhill. Well one thing led to another and we ended up deciding that we might as well just finish it up and hike all the way to Mt. Pilatus. Afterall, the sign said it was 2 hours and 10 minutes from where we were at that point and we were watching all sorts

Almost there

of people go up there, including little kids. Well it turns out this was some serious hiking! We quickly learned that it was not going to be an easy stroll up the mountain. We were climbing a pretty steep trail. All in all we ended up hiking up 2350 feet in about 2 hours. No doubt I will be sore tomorrow. But what an amazing hike! It was super foggy in the valley but we were above the clouds and in the sun and it was incredibly scenic and beautiful. Our reward at the top was french fries and a beer and then the gondola ride all the way back down. I must say, it was a great day in the Swiss alps!

Just starting out

View from the top