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Taking the First Break

After I slept in Näfels at Steffis place she brought me to the train station in Glarus, it was raining cats and dogs, so the temptation to take the train for a while was great, but I decided to wait some time in a coffee place and see if the weather would get better. That day I walked from Glarus to Elm and I got really wet for the first time. I was lucky though that some relatives live there, in the famous Suworow house where the general of the Russian army once slept when they were fighting against Napoleon (I think). The next day I took on the challenge of the Panixer passing, which the Russian army also passed in late fall (and most of the army died). It was tough but very beautiful. The landscape looks like the surface of the moon and there are huge waterfalls going over 100 meter cliffs. It got really cold though around 0° to 5° C because it was up on 2500 meters. Up there was a little hut with an oven where I made a fire and killed time with writing in the journal and reading the bible. Later in the evening some more people arrived and we had a good time talking about hiking and maps and geography.

For the next day I arranged with Mathias Langhans to meet me in the valley below the passing. He met me there at 9 and we walked down to the next village called Pigniu. From there I moved on to Flims which was an insane long walk (on the 25'000 map, from one corner to the other =). In Flims I remembered that my mom offered me to pay for a stay in a hotel they often go to. So I took the offer and now I'm hanging out in the hotel Adula. It has a huge wellness park which is fun because I'm not doing anything today except resting

Tomorrow I'll move on towards Tiefencastel and then at Savognin over another passing.

Thank you for all your encouraging comments!