Switzerland's Largest Upland Moor: Rothenthurm

(November 15, 2015) -- Our Sunday afternoon 12km "walk" on the Rothenthurm High Moor was supposed to be accompanied by sunshine (or so the weather forecast!) but it didn't rain (thinking positive!), and the moor was still pretty. Only the photos could have been more stunning. 

We started in the town of Rothenthurm (less than an hour's travel from home) and got back on the train at Biberbrugg. In winter this whole area is prepped for cross-country skiing.

The Rothenthurm Moor is Switzerland's largest upland moor. In 1987 after a democratic vote by the Swiss people, a legal framework was created to protect this moor, which provides a habitat for many threatened species of animals and plants.

Urs' uncle Tobias is 82, and is so spry... he walks faster and has more stamina than I do! (He claims he thought he had to walk fast to keep up with us "young" people). When he was 70, he did a 10-hour hike with Urs over 2 mountain passes. (Well I won't be doing that).

I loved this very pretty restaurant sign in Biberbrugg, before getting back on the train to head home.

And this is about the only sun we had that day, on our way home along Lake Zug!