Today was a day of hiking on a "trail" in the mountains. At the recommendation of the park ranger, I skipped the walking up the mountain part and rode the cable car up to start hiking from there.
The mountain beckoned this morning and I did not resist the call.
I don't think there is a word in English for this. We were packed so tightly in the cable car that it was claustrophobic, but the clear glass walls of the car were the only thing that separated us from thousands of feet of open air in every direction.
The skinny line in the middle of the picture is the beginning of the trail, before it starts to ascend.
This layer of rocks and gravel that we all followed is why I put quotes around the word "trail." It's more like a moonscape than any trail I have experienced before. You can see some people ahead of me in the picture.
From the trail, we could all see beautiful mountains that are probably more fun to walk in.
There were signs everywhere warning about fog. In the evening the fog rolled in and I could see why. The whole trail experience would have been quite different in conditions like this.
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