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Subject: Re: [OM] Second Switzerland installment
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 20:46:06 +0100
Great shots and colours - I don’t know how you do it but they have this 
familiar subtle tones of slides of my tester years :-)

In any case, a place we must also get to and hike for ourselves :-)

Thanks for sharing

Amities to Marnie too

Philippe & Alice


> Le 5 févr. 2017 à 20:41, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> Beautiful scenery!  We will forgive you for coming up short on flutterbys, 
> though the one shot you included was very nice.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 2/5/2017 1:33 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
>> One of our last hiking destinations was Lobhornhütte--one of the mountain 
>> huts.  We planned to have lunch there.
>> It was rather warm on the way up, until we got more elevation that is.
>> Here are my hiking companions on the way:
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-jTVmf2T/A
>> 
>> 
>> Here we were about a mile or so  away:
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-DkhL57c/A
>> 
>> View from the picnic table at the hut:
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-q7F289C/A
>> 
>> We were short on Swiss francs--arghhh.  She kindly accepted dollars, phew.  
>> Best barley soup I have ever tasted.  I was out of steam and could not abide 
>> another meal of trail mix.
>> Recharged and rested we started down and were rewarded with this view:
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-x6r4Kqg/A:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Here is one shot from Mürren.  We saw a ton of paragliders and they ran a 
>> twin paraglider business in Interlaken that was hopping.
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-jCcZP98/A
>> 
>> Marnie shot from Stampa near Soglio--more shots to process from that cam and 
>> a few more film shots.
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-J89zg7F/A
>> 
>> A few from Soglio:
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-cX3Rfvn/A
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-f35LBqZ/A
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-rSV6bhJ/A
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-N4TJLdw/A      Dr. Flash would 
>> have scolded me  to use a bit a fill flash-- would have filled the eye 
>> sockets and provided a nice catchlight.
>> 
>> I did bring a Flutterby kit and there are some spectacular Swiss critters.  
>> I had only a very limited knowledge of what was flying and where.  After the 
>> long days on the trails had no takers
>> to go with me chasing critters.  I vowed not to return w/o a decent shot or 
>> dusk whatever came first.  Only one usable shot of a fairly common one--not 
>> very cooperative as it was warm and they were very skittish.
>> 
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-qm3ZPHK/A
>> 
>> I returned to find the twins appearing rather stressed:
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-ntTnLXM/A
>> I am not very good at such activities while traveling, but suspect that may 
>> improve with time.
>> 
>> Marnie dearly loves maps, BTW.
>> 
>> Hope you find one or two of interest, Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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