Hike on the Klausenpass. I could leave work in the early afternoon and took the opportunity to go for a hike on the Klausenpass to find a moonwort. (see Plan B album) http://365project.org/mona65/2015-plan-b-alb/2015-09-08
Klausen Pass (German: Klausenpass; elevation: 1,948 metres) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting the canton of Uri with the canton of Glarus. Somewhat unusually, the boundary between the two cantons does not lie at the summit of the pass, but some 8 kilometres down the slope towards Linthal, with the summit being in Uri.
Interesting for me: According to the legend, the border between Glarus and Uri was determined in 1315, following prolonged disputes. The two cantons agreed that at first cockcrow, two runners would start from Altdorf and Linthal, respectively, and the border would be where they met. The people of Glarus decided to feed their cock well, so that it might be sympathetic to their cause, while the people of Uri gave theirs nothing to eat at all. The result was that the Glarus cock overslept, while the Uri one, driven by hunger, crowed exceptionally early, and the runner of Uri crossed the entire Urnerboden before the Glarus runner even set out. On the pleading of the Glarus runner, the man of Uri agreed to let him carry him back uphill as far as he could, and the present border between Uri and Glarus is where the Glarus runner fell dead, exhausted from carrying the runner from Uri.
What an awesome view and capture Mona, kind of makes me want to go to Switzerland. :) How lucky for you to leave work early for a hike and your search for moonwort. Wonderful.
Instant fav for this dramatic, magnificently composed and lighted photograph. Thanks also for the story--for the sake of the runner from Glarus, I rather hope it's apocryphal!
@jgpittenger Thanks Jane. No, I was lucky enough, and did not get wet. Only a few heavy, wet snow-drops (can call them flakes), when I was back in the car, an hour later. Nothing serious.
@tristansmum Thanks Stephanie. Apocryphal --> a new word to my vocabulary. ;-) Thanks for that too. Yes it's a legend, a myth. 700 years old, so one or the other detail could have been changed over the years. Our land is full of that sort of stories. Still I like them.