22-7-2010

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Originally uploaded by cspatrick

We rode the Gletscherexpress - Glacier Express - to a ski area. We had done no preparatory reading about the express, and I think we were expecting a gondola- or funicular-type ride, either suspended above the ground or traveling along the ground. Instead, the entire 10-minute trip was spent traveling through a shaft dug into the glacier. Needless to say, it was cold in the shaft and in the express, but not intolerably so, as we were dressed for a walk on the glacier anyway.