Wengen on the Mountainside

We decided to take a train up the mountain to see how the view from above was.  The answer was:  still cloudy.

The view to Lauterbrunnen from Wengen was not great but still visible. We walked around town to the best viewpoint by the protestant church, bought a few things, and opened our umbrellas to the rain. We saw the cable car terminal for the car to Männlichen and watched as the car ominously disappeared into the low-hanging clouds. We had made the right decision to stay lower. We stayed in Wengen for about an hour, then took the train back down to Lauterbrunnen. We retrieved our car and drove north a bit to Trümmelbach Falls.

You can barely see the tram cables that disappear into the clouds.  We thought about all the people waiting in line in Grindelwald with pre-purchased tickets, ascending up into a cloud.

On cloudy days, these little Alpine towns are pretty quiet.

Here’s the cloudy view down into the valley below.