A hike in the Swiss Alps

Swiss people, even if the weather isn't to good, love going on a hike in the mountains. And that's exactly what me and eleven of my classmates did from Monday until Wednesday.
All of us took the train in the morning over Olten (where we bought some stuff to eat) and over Luzern to Dallenwil. It's a small village in the middle of Switzerland from where we started our hike.
And yes, the weather wasn't too good.. I was literally hiking all the way up with my umbrella open and I think it was the best idea I had that day!
At the bottom of the mountain it was raining a lot but around the middle of our hike there was already snow. And that snow slowed us down a lot! In the end it took us about 6 hours to get all the way up through the deep snow until we reached the SAC-hut.
We were the only ones staying there and therefore we had the whole living room for ourselves. It was a really cozy place with a fireplace and we talked and played card games the whole evening.
I made some cards for a game called "werewolves", where there's a village with a couple of wolves in it and the wolves' objective is to eat all the normal citizens and well the citizens' objective is to get rid of the wolves; a very fun game for a large group!

The next day was very relaxing. We slept for a long time and then went out in the snow to have some fun :)
There was a woman passing by with two dogs and she made a stop at our hut. So we took the dogs for a little walk in the snow and me and my friend took some funny photos of them..
Later, again, we played card games and enjoyed our day up there.

On Wednesday we were already on our way back down to the village. And the weather was gorgeous! Not even one single cloud in the sky!! And I am sure that the walk down only took us half the time we had for walking up the mountain ^^

I can really recommend this hike onto the Brisen but check the weather forecast first..!

Milkyway Photography

Now, since we are on holiday and have a lot of free time, me and two friends of mine decided to go to the Schwarzwald which is at the border from Switzerland and Germany to take some pictures of the milky way. We went there because on a light-pollution map it was apparently the darkest spot close to us. And there are nice backgrounds with all the trees.
So on Sunday Davids mum picked me up and we arrived around ten at night at that particular spot. There was a little farm and we asked the farmer if we could park our car in his backyard.
We walked a bit to find the perfect spot for our shots and took some pictures of the moon. But since the moon was still up and really bright we had to wait for it to set and for the milky way to appear further up on the sky. So we went back to sleep in the car.
At half past one in the morning we woke up and it was freezing cold outside! But it was as dark as it could possibly get which meant we had the perfect opportunity to take good pictures of the night sky! And we stayed until 3:30 outside, so nearly two hours!
We took pictures of some different angles and one where I am as a silhouette visible in front of the milky way. It was so much fun and I think that we will try this again sooner or later :)

By the way I also made a Flickr gallery if you want to check it out ;)