Summary: I need new hikers... these ones are used up!
And the long version is not much different: given the length of the planned hike (very long), the questionable state of health of some parts of some hikers' anatomy, and the fact that from midday on thunderstorms were expected, the group decided not to hike today. Instead we took bus/train/bus around the mountain, arriving in our Savognin hotel rooms around 12:30 just in time to see a large and impressive thunderstorm come over the mountains about where we would have been hiking. So, probably this was a case of "the wisdom of the crowd" :-).
Instead of hiking we played games, before having a good dinner and some good conversation about geopolitics in the evening. This morning Walter left early (going back to San Francisco via Milan and Istanbul, Franz towards midday (to Bavaria), Russ and I then had lunch with a Swiss friend of his before taking a couple of chairlifts up to near the top of a mountain from which we then descended along steep gravel trails on Trottibikes (push scooters)... much scarier and more dangerous than hiking!
The needed new hikers, cousin Ollie and daughter Millie, will arrive in the early evening, and tomorrow I've ordered good weather for a nice long hike to Bergün: hope they appreciate it!
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