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Done
Done! Finished! Finito. I am in Zermatt, having walked from Mt Blanc to the Matterhorn as planned. Tomorrow I head back to Amsterdam, and then home. Despite significant pain in my left foot, despite the cold shared with me in the first hut that wont go away, despite some discouraging
Ups and Downs
The alps are immense. They are always bigger in reality than in my memory. You can walk for days and not get from valley to summit. The average distance on this hike is 10-12 miles a day. Pretty moderate, right? But it's the elevation gain and loss
Hut life
The Swiss Alpine Club boasts 150 huts 🛖 scattered across the alps 🏔️ The huts provide accomodations at high elevations, which is important for mountaineers planning to summit any of the dozens of peaks, and for touring hikers who don't want to go all the way down into the valleys
Why worry?
All my life, I have worried about things in the distance, only to discover that when I actually get there, they are fine. As a child, I worried incessantly about the mysterious intricacies of marriage, education, professional identification, and all manner of adult pursuits. In college and grad schoool, I