Day 9 (October 9, 2008)

Our day began with a walk from our hotel to the Grindelwald/First cable car station. The cable car goes over many cow pastures and there is constant clanging of cow bells below. At the top of First, we hiked to Lake Bachalpsee and then spent the entire day hiking the trails in and around First. It clouded up in the afternoon, but we still had a good hike.
At one point we were lucky enough to see an Alpine Marmot.
At night, back in the hotel, we had a nice long talk with Tim and Sharon from Australia. They were on a month long honeymoon and touring France, Switzerland, and Italy.