This weekend was a beautiful one! We had sunny warmish weather and after our Spartans beat Michigan on Saturday, we decided to spend Sunday outdoors celebrating!
Jason has been to Mt. Pilatus in Luzern twice: once with his parents, and once when he climbed it with friends. The kids and I hadn't been yet, so we decided to check it out. It is beautiful, no doubt about it. We drove to Kriens, just a bit above Luzern and parked there, then took the gondola up to the middle station to have a little fun!
If you're interested in a hike, take your pick of directions!
Half way up the mountain is the world's longest summer toboggan run! We each put a kid on our lap and rode down the mountain on a sled with wheels. It was such fun! At the bottom of the ride, you are hooked up to a cable that drags you back up, so you don't even have to hike it! Fantastic. The above picture is Aidan and Jason at the end of their run and below is a shot of the toboggan run. The curved part is down and the straight part is where they drag you up. The kids wanted to do it again, but we had more of the mountain to conquer!
We took a cable car the rest of the way up, to Pilatus Kulm. Here we had lunch and walked around a bit. It was really cold at the top and the kids weren't up for hiking much. I had really wanted to go to this cool church that literally hangs off the edge of the mountain (see the first picture, sorry it's out of order!), but instead we checked out the warm gift shop. Bummer.
Here's Aidan at the summit, where we ate our bratwurst in the wind.
If you're interested in a hike, take your pick of directions!
Half way up the mountain is the world's longest summer toboggan run! We each put a kid on our lap and rode down the mountain on a sled with wheels. It was such fun! At the bottom of the ride, you are hooked up to a cable that drags you back up, so you don't even have to hike it! Fantastic. The above picture is Aidan and Jason at the end of their run and below is a shot of the toboggan run. The curved part is down and the straight part is where they drag you up. The kids wanted to do it again, but we had more of the mountain to conquer!
We took a cable car the rest of the way up, to Pilatus Kulm. Here we had lunch and walked around a bit. It was really cold at the top and the kids weren't up for hiking much. I had really wanted to go to this cool church that literally hangs off the edge of the mountain (see the first picture, sorry it's out of order!), but instead we checked out the warm gift shop. Bummer.
Here's Aidan at the summit, where we ate our bratwurst in the wind.
Here's Lainey with a HUGE Alphorn and a model of the cogwheel train
This is as far as we got into our hike before the kids were complaining they were cold. It's going to be a long winter, and these kids are dying to go skiing??
After our mini-hike and visit to the gift shop we rode a gondola down to the first stop where they have a huge playground. We let the kids play for a while before heading home.
Here is the playground with the gondolas over head and the mountain off in the distance is Pilatus. We were at the very peak of it, just minutes before I took this pic!
It was a swinging good time!
This is as far as we got into our hike before the kids were complaining they were cold. It's going to be a long winter, and these kids are dying to go skiing??
After our mini-hike and visit to the gift shop we rode a gondola down to the first stop where they have a huge playground. We let the kids play for a while before heading home.
Here is the playground with the gondolas over head and the mountain off in the distance is Pilatus. We were at the very peak of it, just minutes before I took this pic!
It was a swinging good time!
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