Easter Vacation
If you want to quit the city and brutal world for some days, join us in the Mountain. It’s just a way to get closer to baseline. To empty the heavy burden of modern life, to get a pause from the medial world and shocking news. To eventually breathe in fresh air, and to reload your batteries.
It’s OK to greet the mountains with a nod
Effort and Releaf
When you arrive after many hours driving,its quite a challenge to transport the luggage, food, drinks, books from the parking lot to the cabin. This time day temperature was high and snow so soft that you sank deep into it every other step, even with skis and snow shoes on!
After two hours and totally exhausted, you enter the cabin rather relieved and happy. And after a rich meal with some wine , you normally sleep for hours.
Morning has broken
Now you have to get the table ready for breakfast.
In the morning you go to a small shed with logs of dry wood, and you saw and axe them into pieces that fit the oven in the kitchen. Soon there will be fire inside the oven , and coffee on the stove. Everything is quiet except for the crackle in the oven and the hiss from the coffee pot. Guess who will be happy to join you to breakfast when the eggs are boiled and bread is toasted?
Sun is shining on the other side of the lake
Restlessness and stimuli hunger
Then comes the reaction phase: You grab your phone. You check for SMS., mails Facebook, Twitter, calls. There are none! What the heck? Life stops, panic starts! You lag behind for several hours, soon for days! Your social Life is in peril. Friends may leave you, you are out of rating. Out of reach! No more likes to eat for lunch. Your hungry heart starve.
You run out of the cabin. Skies are mostly blue. What’s that familier sound? You look up. A small stripe of white condense has covered half the sky. That buzz is the daily plane from Philadelphia to Doha, Quatar. And wow here comes British Airways route from London to Tokyo. What a relief! Civilization has not yet left you totally!
BA Boeing 777 -300 from London to Tokyo
You checked it last summer with your flight radar app. All the planes from the East of US and Canada to the middel east and Asia including Japan , fly over your cabin at an altitude of 32000-42000 ft.
Then you have to go to the water pump and pump 3 bucketfuls of water. When that is done you must walk back to the cabin and pour one bucket into the boiler and place the two other buckets under the sinks , with a water hose that is attatched to a solar driven water pump.
A primitive manual water pump
Solar driven water faucet pump
Out Skiing
Our first crosscountry skiing this easter was thrilling and nice. We went to a mountaintop nearby. Here you can get a panorama view of 360 degrees. Or just eat a chocolate or an orange. And take a photo or selfie to prove that you were there.
Not the world’s highest mountain, but surely a very nice place to rest and take a good view at the world.
Downhill without the use of muscles more than to keep the balance and avoid falling.
And this was how we returned down to our cabin again. (The clips are very short and primitive as my text because here 1000 m above sea level there is no access to Internet except on my tiny phone with even smaller keyboard letters. )
But thats just the point of it all! You need sometimes to be free from the tyranny of being always available!
The ones that did not join us to the top had taken out the easter chickens and continued at the breakfast table until lunchtime.
Have a nice Easter Holiday yourself