Day 12 (October 12, 2008)

For our last full day in Grindelwald we chose to hike from Grosse Scheidegg to Swartzwaldalp. According to the bus schedule there was 1 bus that would take us back to Grindelwald from Swartzwaldalp. The only problem was the hiking time to Swartzwaldalp would get us there too late for the bus, so we decided that if we did not want to be stranded we had to jog parts of the mountain trail. It was a good fitness run, similar to the alpine setting on a treadmill except with lots more sceneary and rocks. We got to Swartzwaldalp early and toured a sawmill, then we bought some mountain cheese and had lunch. We ate a hardy traditional Bernese dinner of several thousand calories back in Grindelwald that night.