Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Tony Lee on October 22, 2009, 05:31:45 PM
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edit by maggi: This thread has been split from the topic http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3495.195 ...so begins by Tony replying to Ragged Robin's posts there..........
Thank you Robin,You have revived memories of our time in the Saas Valley in June this year,Cliff is right you can spend a few hours here on cow fighting day,The procedure is started with an open air service held outside a very small church,followed by the food and the cows,This sorting out of the pecking order happens in domestic poultry,every time you introduce a new hen to the flock,just a few pictures if they work.the crowd around the brolly are making a bet.
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Food
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Cows
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More cows
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More cows
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I have just noticed the slides say Saas Fee,in fact the place is Triftalp just above Saas Grund.
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What year was this, Tony? I think I lost a packet on No. 22! ;D
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Hi Cliff it was June this year about the 20th,as Robin says there was a lot of snow,we were about the first to get round Mattmark reservoir.
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:o I wonder how much they weigh? - not placing any bets though ;D
Glad you were reminded of a happy visit to Saas Fee, Tony, was it the first time you'd been in the region?
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The Heren cows are muscular girls, aren't they? No gender testing for these athletes ? - though it would be a brave person who questioned them!!?
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Hi Cliff it was June this year about the 20th,as Robin says there was a lot of snow,we were about the first to get round Mattmark reservoir.
Any photos of the Mattmark reservoir area Tony?
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The Heren cows are muscular girls, aren't they? No gender testing for these athletes ? - though it' :od be a brave person who questioned them!!?
;D ;D ;D - I think they could be trained to toss the caber Maggi :o
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The Heren cows are muscular girls, aren't they? No gender testing for these athletes ? - though it' :od be a brave person who questioned them!!?
Herren cows? Damen bulls? Perhaps a test is necessary.
johnw
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We were in Saas fee about four years ago Robin,I was a little disapointed with the flowers this year, to many goats around Hannig.I do have pictures of Mattmark I will have to work on them.
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Looking forward to seeing them when you have time Tony :)
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From autumn colors to fighting cows, things can end up rather strange :-\ ;D
Robin your pictures bring lots of memories of walking in late autumn in Switzerland, though it was in Ticino.
Thanks for showing them.
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From Autumn colours to fighting cows to spring snow,a few pictures of Mattmark reservoir,requested by Robin,not as good as most of the excellent postings on this site I have to say,we were here towards the end of our stay here so could have been 30 June,The first pic looking toward the Monte Moro pass into Italy.
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Mattmark 2
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The snow fields were at the far end of the dam, and there were many,only a few had gone before us,no prizes for I/Ding my friends.
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Plenty of snow melt
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snow melt 2
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Rhodiola or is it Sedum,
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Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia,
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Pulsatilla 2
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Looking down the saas valley from the dam wall.
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No 2
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Silene acaulis
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Primula ?
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Primula
hirsuta
Keep posting Tony. I was there in July a few years ago, much hotter and drier then. Interesting to see the flowers from an early visit. The screes around the hairpin road were carpeted in flowers, Campanula cochlearifolia and Anthyllis vulneraria come to mind as dominant. Most pics were slides in those days - and I did not take the digital camera out on rainy days!
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Thanks Tony,It was very different when we were last there in 03,how time flies,I prefer the Burnese Oberland,(No sheep and the cows do not get high up untill later in the season)We love to stay in Grindelwald,I remember talking to you at Kleine Scheidegg a few years ago.
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Thanks Tony,It was very different when we were last there in 03,how time flies,I prefer the Burnese Oberland,(No sheep and the cows do not get high up untill later in the season)We love to stay in Grindelwald,I remember talking to you at Kleine Scheidegg a few years ago.
My trip was in 2002. Looking at the few digi pics this is the only one relevant to Mattmark. A view up the valley towards Mattmark, taken from Hannig. (No evidence of goats when I was there but not so many flowers either!)
I have enjoyed both the Valais and the Oberland although I have been to the Wengen area more often than anywhere else :) Yes. I remember the meeting at Kleine Scheidegg ..... I returned there last year, staying at the station guesthouse. Cheap and very quiet at night ... a great place to stay.
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Tony, wonderful photos from your trip..... it's great to see other places in the same region so close by and so different. The high lakes are such an incredible colour and your snowmelt photos are incredible. Thanks for showing them :)
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so you can share the feelings and wonderful mountain scenery :)
You don't need to ask me long.
Wonderful place (near you) close to swiss - french border is Emosson Dam (Barrage d'Emosson). The way to the dam lead from Finhaut, it climb with switchbacks up. It's narrow but we can admire massif of Mont Blanc and the Valley of Rhone.
On the 1. photo summit with snow it's Mont Blanc. Next photos show sceneries of the dam.
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A reminder that Ewelina has other lovely Alpine pix here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3019.0