Day 16: Another short day

Today we again had planned a short day for our sick participant & because the forecast said thunderstorm in the afternoon. 4 hours is a nice distance, I am very happy with that. The day started with a nice easy up and down. We passed a beautiful lake, but as it was early and not really warm yet no one felt like swimming. Then it was decision time again: a 'little' detour (300 up) to get to a hut where we could do a rest. Parts of the group are doing the Munich-Venice geocache and there was a hint up there. So we go - despite the burning sun that had come out. As you may have guessed, I started to hate it before we were halfway up and was exhausted when we arrived. The second part of the day I first 'ran' with the others and then realised that it is stupid to do that in the heat and especially on a short hike. So I took my time and enjoyed the rest of the route.
The only two scary parts: right while I was walking through a crowd of cows (I especially don't like the ones with horns) one cow jumped the other one. Stupid cows! A bit of chaos and me getting the hell out of there and again some swear words may have been heard. The second one: a snake passed my way. Don't ask me what it was. I froze, the snake went away and then I thought a picture would have been nice :-)
The hut we ended up (Vazzelero) was beautiful, so again we had a nice afternoon, enjoying the view, enjoying the showers, doing laundry and playing bingo & kniffel in the sun. And as you may have guessed, we were lucky again and had no rain.

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