The Wrong Path: Monday July 28, 2008

Today we decided to do our own walk. From the information Christian gave us yesterday, we thought it would be nice to ride the Komperdellbahn up to Komperdell and walk the hour-long Panorama Genußweg as to the Sunlinerbahn. But first we visted the Post Office to mail the postcards we wrote yesterday and Tourist Information to sign up for a guided hike tomorrow. This one costs 6 Euros each for the Dairy tour.

When we got to to top at Komperdell, the sign posting didn't seem that good. Would couldn't see any sign telling us which trail was the flat (easy) Panorama Genußweg. We started out on a path that looked like it went in the right direction, going toward a yellow bahn in the distance. This path was not steep, but it was consistently uphill and exposed (no shade). We walked uphill until we reached a set of benches where we posed for photos. However, a few feet later the trail hairpin-turned and became an overgrown tract going in the wrong direction. I insisted we turn around because there was no way I could manage this path and I couldn't see how it could only be an hour to our destination.

We rode the cablecar back down to where we started and took the other one right next door up to where we had planned to get to on the trail. From here it was 15 minute FLAT walk to Möseralm in Fiss. We stood in line here to buy a 3-attraction card each for the rides. I rode the Sky Swing first because there was no wait, but after that we had to queue again to get a start number for the Fisser Flieger. The Flieger is like a hang glider except the glider is attached to a long cable. Once you are strapped in, they pull the glider backwards up the mountain before releasing you to "Fly" back to where you started. There are big electronic signs by each attraction displaying the current number. When you see your number, you can to to the ride and not have to wait in a queue. We had to wait an hour for the Flieger so we decided to have lunch. Our packed lunch was in the hotel because we hadn't planned on the wait or the detour this morning. So we bought a lunch in the Alm restaurant near the rides. I had currywurst and Graham had another salad from the salad bar. I also had a brilliantly icy diet coke.

We finally had our go on the Flieger and it was fun. It wasn't as scary as I had thought it would be. Rather tame really. We ran down the hill afterwards to get a number for the Fisser Flitzer - the 2.2km Rodelbahn. We were told the wait for this was 2 hours and it might be best to come back one morning when there are no lines. Sadly we agreed.

We bought some water to drink, but had to drink it there because it came in glass bottles and now refreshed, we retraced our steps and walked back to the Sunlinerbahn and rode down to Serfaus and went back to the hotel. We relaxed a bit before heading downstairs for cake and coffee.

We had time to kill before dinner and we had the idea to take the car and drive to the 3rd village, Ladis, that we hadn't seen yet. The drive was only about 10 minutes and I did the driving, but the roads were very twisty. Just as we arrived and were parking the car, we heard loud thunder in the distance and saw lightning. We only managed to walk halfway down the main street, before deciding to turn around. I didn't want to be driving those twisty roads in a thunderstorm. Just minutes after we were safely back in our our hotel, the skies opened up and it poured.

At 6pm we went down for dinner. Penne Arabika for me and Tilapia for Graham. We tried to walk after dinner, but it was still raining a bit to heavily for our flimsy travel umbrellas.

As we sat in our room pondering the options for Wednesday, I looked up and was shocked to see that our view had completely disappeared. We were enveloped in dense fog and couldn't even see the house across the street.