Friday, August 03, 2007

Stage 31 -- Grindelwald to the Kleine Scheidegg

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Tuesday July 31st, 2007

We spent a very pleasant free day in Grindelwald, or more accurately in the Hotel Regina, in large part because it has such a lovely wellness center that we all felt no need to go anywhere else. After blogging and email in the morning, Lidia and Ioana arrived around lunchtime (which we skipped, as is becoming usual on a rest day) and then we all went down to a melange of massages, manicures, saunas (2), steam baths (2), and swimming pools (2, one inside, one out), as well as a saltwater meditation pool, a Kneipp bath, cold and hot showers, and various relaxation rooms. Ahhhhhh.

More than a little refreshed, the following morning we set out for the long climb up to and along the base of the north face of the Eiger to the Kleine Scheidegg pass. "We" in this case being Arnulf and I because:

o Russell needed to find an ear doctor to resolve partial deafness caused by a wax ball he had unwisely pushed down his ear canal (removal successful)