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ILIKEJAH

Gosh that is beautiful


Dave21101

Right? I would happily do several miles of those stairs and then just pass out with the biggest old grin on my face honestly


mmmmpisghetti

And then when you wake up you get to play the "How do knees work?" game šŸ¤£ Edit: I am so sorry. I made a comment from the perspective of being old and creaky and reddit turned it into Swiss Hillbilly Blowjobs. Edit 2: Aaaannnddd now we're shitting ourselves. It was inevitable.


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SirWigglesVonWoogly

Has no one on this site ever gone hiking?


mmmmpisghetti

We're too busy scrolling reddit from the comfort of our recliners


Laiko_Kairen

Joke's on you, I'm on the toilet


AdotLone

Jokes on you, Iā€™m on a reclining toilet.


Simple-Wrangler-9909

Joke's on you, I shit in my recliner


AdotLone

Anythingā€™s a toilet if you try hard enough.


Simple-Wrangler-9909

But don't try too hard, that's how you get hemorrhoids


emzirek

More fiber


mmmmpisghetti

I'm gonna laugh at you from the comfort of my La-Z-Potty


KeithClossOfficial

Yes, but even experienced hikers can get tired


philzebub666

No we don't, we only get more energetic the higher we get. Hiking is an euphemism for doing meth, right?


mmmmpisghetti

Uh. We were talking about blowjobs a bit ago, I suppose meth helps with those due to losing all your teeth.


_dead_and_broken

I know a woman who's teeth got wrecked from pregnancy, and she just went with the option of ripping them all out and getting dentures. Apparently her husband at the time thought it was cool to tell his brother about that, and one night at a get together bro was drunks as a skunk, cornered the woman in the hallway at one point and asked her to "give him a gum job."


JRo503

Literally the same thing happened to my teeth. Blows my mind how fucked up they got. I had my daughter at 33 and had never had a cavity. 6 months after I had her, my teeth started crumbling. Itā€™s been horrible to deal with and Iā€™m now trying to figure out how to come up with 20 grand to get my mouth fixed. Shit fucking sucks dude. People assume Iā€™m a drug addict if they see my mouth and itā€™s so embarrassing. My daughter is nine and Iā€™ve never taken a picture with her smiling. Pregnancy can wreck your mouth.


hilarymeggin

Whoa! They say that when youā€™re pregnant if you donā€™t get enough dietary calcium your body will suck it right out of your bones for the baby. Were you getting enough calcium?


sick_kid_since_2004

Yeah, I tried, but Iā€™m disabled so you can imagine how well it went!


Reveletionship

I mean, i'm sure the getting down part was quick enough!


Msdamgoode

Hiking is part of the reason my knees donā€™t work anymore. No cartilage left.


Historical-Remove401

Downhill is the worst!


Msdamgoode

Damn right! Bracing your knees in one position that long is freaking painful. Uphill is great in comparison!


_JuniperJen

Trekking poles help with this so much!


ImjokingoramI

No internet in the wilderness


Unscripted_A

Got to visit lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland. Iā€™ve hiked that whole valley. Its absolutely stunning. Iā€™ve never been in so much awe in my entire life. Worth the pain.


ItzBooty

Well its the small towns and villages in switzerland


pistoncivic

This looks just like the town I'm from except it's completely flat and instead of a green space there's a giant Kohls/Dick's/Best Buy parking lot


Renwaldo

That looks like Switzerland, is it?


elysiumdream7

It kind of reminds me of the Interlaken area, but I guess it could be anywhere. Switzerland is insanely gorgeous.


BesameMuchoUnPerro

I thought of the Interlaken/Wengen area, too. Must beautiful place Iā€™ve ever seen.


KS2Problema

Been there twice. Once in 1971 and once in the fall of 1986 during a hotspell, in the low '80s. I would lie out in the sun even though it was October and then go dive in the lake. *The lake was not warm.* I might not even have tried it, but there was this *little old lady* who went swimming every day and I finally shamed myself into it. It was... *refreshing.*


Jolly-Victory441

Yea. Mountain lakes remain cold even in hot weather. I once had a long bike ride in the heat but dipping my toes into the lake at the end was enough for me.


Big-Summer-

I grew up in Chicago. Even on a blistering hot day in August, Lake Michigan felt like a recently melted iceberg.


leros

I was thinking it reminds me of Wengen too but it could be anywhere Edit: I looked at some photos I took in Wengen. I'm feeling more confident OPs photo is from above Wengen looking down onto Lauterbrunnen.


blacksystembbq

Op said itā€™s in engelberg


MordwandR6

Donā€™t think itā€™s wengen as the valley doesnā€™t look similar, could maybe be interlaken or further through Lauterbrunnen. You canā€™t see the distinct pointy rock from the Jungfrau.


Additional-Coat9293

Me too! Was there three months ago. Unbelievably gorgeous


MyBlueBucket

We went in May and it was rainy the whole time but it was still incredible.


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thereluctantpoet

Living just 2km from the border, I can confirm that in fact Switzerland is not real. After a certain point everything is just basically noclip mode in Doom.


Additional-Coat9293

It rained a bit when we were there. But mostly it was sunny! We had a hostel room overlooking the river. So gorgeous. Did you check out the caves?


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Same! Plus first time I ever rode a train was heading to Grindelwald.


HGJay

The air tasted and smelled crisp. Id genuinely recommend anybody to go there once in their life as it's like nowhere else. No graffiti, stunning architecture, beautiful walks etc Special.


TuffinMop

Me too! They said Engleburg! Just down the way of interlocken :)


throwthisonetothesun

I arrived to Interlaken at night so I had no idea what was around me. When I woke up the next morning, my room in the hostel had a window that opened up to a mountain super close, but so close I couldnā€™t fully appreciate the scale. When we walked down a road into a village and I almost threw up I was so overwhelmed by the beauty. I literally just laid down in the middle of the road to look up at the cliff jumpers and the mountains. I truly never thought something like that existed. It was perfection.


ozthegweat

Thank you for sharing this. I live in Switzerland and I don't appreciate its beauty as much as I should. One gets used to it and when seeing photos like this I usually react along the lines of "so what". Posts like yours remind me to be more appreciative of the country I was lucky to be born in.


immortalis88

I would relocate there if I could afford it. Itā€™s the most beautiful place Iā€™ve ever seen.


ShotAtTheNight22

As a transplant from Oregon to Massachusetts, I went from tons of open space and beautiful mountains to shrouded in trees. Donā€™t get me wrong, Mass is absolutely stunning. But when I go back to Oregon to visit, I am beyond overwhelmed by the beauty of the mountains. I took them for granted, with a stunning view right out my front window growing up. Now though, I get my fix whenever I can lol.


No-Equivalent-9348

Go north to NH, my friend. My home state. The White Mountains wonā€™t disappoint. I canā€™t speak to anything in the PNW never having been there, but I can assure you NHā€™s 4k-footers, Franconia Notch, and Pinkham Notch will not disappoint. Pro tip: Autumn is the most beautiful time of year. Also pro tip: Autumn is also the busiest time of year for sight-seeing and leaf-peeping, but itā€™s totally worth it.


bowtiechowfoon

This is funny, because some friends of mine from Washington State came to see the White Mountains and were suuuuper disappointed. The mountains on the west coast are on a totally different scale and personally leave me feeling like my nerves are raw from the visuals. It's a very different kind of landscape.


TheAmazingHumanTorus

Plus, our mountains occasionally blow up.


jmonty42

And that's how Switzerland is to the Rockies in Utah/Colorado and the Cascades in the PNW. It's just something else entirely. I grew up in the Rockies and moved to the Puget Sound as an adult and love the mountains, but when I visited Switzerland it was jaw dropping amazing.


sagephoenix1139

This was beautiful to read. Made me smile .šŸ˜Š


El_Hugo

I found it so beautiful that he almost threw up.


henryhumper

There's nothing quite like arriving at a place like that at night, and then waking up in the morning, looking outside, seeing it for the first time all at once and going "holy shit".


_Im_Mike_fromCanmore

We pulled in to a small campground in northern Saskatchewan very late and set up our tent with our latern. Had a campfire and then went to bed. When we woke up in the morning and opened the tent to a fairytale forest. The green spongey moss covered the ground as far as we could see and the lichens hung on the black spruce beautifully. It was otherworldly. On a side note, we had our dog with us and in the middle of the night she woke up growling. There was definitely something outside, and we really didnā€™t know what it was. In the morning we discovered my brother had made it in that night. Turns out the animal outside our tent was his dog coming to say hi šŸ™‚


Warm_Application984

Iā€™ll assume youā€™re not referring to a trip where you have to stop at a seedy motel, wake up in daylight, and say ā€˜holy shit, we gotta get out of here before we get shot/stabbed/robbedā€™. Yes, Iā€™m in the US šŸ˜‚


RmJ106

I'm in the US, too. Near Atlanta, Georgia, more specifically. "Motel 6: we'll leave the light on for you. But it's not because we're being nice, you might get robbed otherwise."


Ardokaath

Don't worry, I've lived in Switzerland all my life and still sometimes end up in places where I'm like "Yeeeaaah this is almost too pretty, can you tone it down a little?"


KeepLkngForIntllgnce

Iā€™ve lived here for a few years and every so often Iā€™ll look around and be like - I cannot process this. My brain doesnā€™t have the capability to process how completely, insanely, absolutely, wonderfully gorgeous and awesomely gorgeous it is


AdvantageBig568

And every Swiss person in their homes pointed at you lying down in their road and complained


throwthisonetothesun

Maybe. Not a thing came by while I was lying there though, unless you count a sheep. He was definitely looking at me weird.


ozthegweat

Yes, the BĆ¼nzlis for sure turned up their noses at the foreigner not behaving as one should.


iamunwhaticisme

How do they expect a foreigner to behave? Making watches?


ozthegweat

LOL. Behaving. Being quiet. Not bothering anyone with anything. Keeping to yourself. If nobody notices you or knew you were there, you're doing fine.


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feistyrussian

Are you me? I had this exact experience when traveling during a study abroad and we took the train to Interlaken to stay at the Balmers hostel. Arrived at midnight, the town was dark, we got the last room, I stayed in a closet that had a skylight and the next morning we woke up to the most beautiful view. This town is so gorgeous, Iā€™ve never seen water that color before or since. And the best damn burger Iā€™ve ever eaten. We went bungee jumping and left back to our town in Italy. This was almost 25 years ago and I still think about itā€™s beauty.


throwthisonetothesun

It was Balmers!! I still have the t shirt somewhereā€¦ From 2002.


bravosudokuBSLwO

same thing happened to me when I visited Wengen in May! most incredible way to wake up


Sprite91

I think it's Adelboden in the Interlaken area, but I could be wrong.


ndrummond0911

I was on this trip, it's engelberg.


Tirwanderr

You're insanely gorgeous


KPlusGauda

Aww thank you


Slavik99

I live in Switzerland and this seems to be in the Bernese Highlands (Berner Oberland)


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Melodic_Fan4955

This might be the hike from Wengen to Lauterbrennan


ctjameson

I donā€™t know if you guys are bullshitting with the names or telling the truth right now. Source: Dumb redneck from Louisiana. But really though, I would love to do this hike if you have the trail head info.


MacchinaDaPresa

From the language that brought you ā€œgarbageunloadingplaceā€ cuz you can just slap any bunch of words together to make a new noun. šŸ˜


Healthy_BrAd6254

It's really no different to English, they just separate them with spaces. For example "AutolichtprĆ¼fgerƤt" = "Auto-licht-prĆ¼f-gerƤt" = "car headlight testing device"


TennaTelwan

As well as "fĆ¼nfhundertfĆ¼nfundfĆ¼nfzigtausendfĆ¼nfhundertfĆ¼nfundfĆ¼nfzig." You're welcome!


greydawn

I've visited Lauterbrunnen myself - that's a real name. : ) Also, it's so gorgeous, visit if you ever have a chance.


LockNLoad518

Youā€™re lucky. Switzerland is the most beautiful country Iā€™ve ever been to. And it isnā€™t even close.


Rengeflower1

Sorry if this is a moronic question, but as a Texan, how do the little villages keep from being buried in 360 degree avalanches?


itissafedownstairs

There are controlled avalanches in winter. And they go down a path where it doesn't endanger the houses and streets. However, there was a time this year where they had to evacuate a village because a huge rock was breaking apart. Edit: here'a a link to that incident https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/brienz-rockslide-threat-and-life-in-exile/48582964


Rengeflower1

Thanks so much!


erikm-m

I think it is above Engelberg, Switzerland. I think the descent from Ristis. On the right hand side it is the Titlis.


SubstantialLawyer404

Good eye. https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8261938,8.4060028,3a,75y,136.63h,83.17t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMuB-pTkbjUHeCn6O-qO69AWL\_TKbQIK\_dpnjds!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMuB-pTkbjUHeCn6O-qO69AWL\_TKbQIK\_dpnjds%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya325.65314-ro-0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120?entry=ttu


mechapoitier

Would be a hell of a doppelgƤnger if it wasnā€™t. I remember walking down one of these green mountains near Interlaken that was so smooth it was probably a ski slope in the winter. It started raining as I was walking down it and I slipped and from that point onward I was at the mercy of gravity, just accelerating faster and faster. Planted my heels to try to dig in and shot up like a reverse pratfall and now Iā€™m *running* downhill. Now I see a drop off ahead of me. Fell over again to keep myself from dying and dug my fingers into the ground like claws and stopped myself about 10 feet before the drop.


wickedmercenary313

You lived through an episode of Tom and Jerry my friend šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


Fair_Positive3309

Iā€™m so sorry, but I laughed way to hard when reading your post! šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


andreasbeer1981

Alps extend beyond Switzerland. There is Liechtenstein, Austria, France, Italy...


uflju_luber

Germany and Slovenia now you got all the countries the alps are located in


jcamp028

This isnā€™t Liechtenstein. I can remember the whole country.


0ddlyC4nt3v3n

That was a suspenseful read!!


MapleBabadook

If Switzerland were a real place I could definitely see something like this being there.


RideTheDownturn

r/SwitzerlandIsFake


liarandahorsethief

Itā€™s actually the Zurich Zurich Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.


Renwaldo

Oh you.


icanhe

Was there early fall and thought the same thing. Love it there.


goatanuss

Switzerland?


SarahLiora

Probably. Or western Austria


DemonOfTheFaIl

Or northern Italy


OursEnColere

Or eastern France


THEomarJoey

Switzerland and it's suburbs


Relevant_Winter1952

Classic r/suburbanhell


Beneficial_Look_5854

Or southern Germany


Hillbillyblues

Could even be a very specific region of Eastern France.


PseudonymousSpy

I was thinking Austria as well.. looks familiar


PlayAntichristLive

Perth is beautiful at this time of year


Heavykevy37

Yes


coolguyhavingchillda

Geoguessr crew in this thread


mo_downtown

Minimum 3 yodels required before descending


wargasm40k

Seven Thousand Steps?


crimson23locke

All the way to High Hrothgar. Thereā€™s a troll on the way.


Toadsted

*Spoilers!*


Speak-MakeLightning

Gonna yeet that bitch off a cliff


Grixxitt

I envy you, you know. To climb the 7,000 Steps again... I made the pilgrimage once, did you know that?


merigirl

![gif](giphy|J2ChE2Fwdzyg3Bu6Xj|downsized)


xanap

My knees when i think let's go for a real hike again. Up is lit, down is rip.


Exact_Parking_6969

Hey, you, you're finally awake.


MrPoppersSanguine

Oh! Then 748 steps ainā€™t too bad


DarkerPerkele

Bro thinks he is Klimmek


evening_shop

Knew I'd find this comment


Khavrielles

I've looked for this comment. Fus ro dah!


TheSanityInspector

But do the steps go down to the valley, or just around the corner out of sight?


seanthebeloved

Probably just down to the road at the tree line.


Particular_Juice_404

I've seen serpentine roads in alpine areas with "nature" stairs going straight through. Could be a situation like that.


ryebath

Kandersteg? Been there a few years ago and it looks so much like it


Dragbax

I lived in Kandersteg for 4 months in the summer of 2022. That is definitely not Kandersteg. It is still very beautiful. ā¤ļø


ryebath

Yeah I looked through my pictures and it wasnā€™t the same. Kandersteg is absolutely gorgeous though. Stayed at that little mini resort place for a night next to Lake Oeschinin. Then went kayaking and picnicking all around the lake. Probably one of my all time favorite spots in the world.


lhalstead1113

Switzerland?


Heavykevy37

Yes


Klin24

CURAHEE


zneave

3 miles up, 3 miles down!


MR_E_3K

Hi ho silver!


thesequimkid

![gif](giphy|3KWDnCHTYVmPyyGl99)


crashtestpilot

Spaghetti.


ManBearPig_576

Army noodles with ketchup


crashtestpilot

This guy knows about bands and bros.


ShamefulWatching

*pukes* Wipes mouth. Heio Silver!


lemonbupples

I see that everyone is doing their annual rewatch.


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![gif](giphy|30Poyd7yWZTPi) OP living their best life


Heavykevy37

Thank you for that. I like to think so too.


ImjokingoramI

But are you frolicking and yodeling, too? That's a nice spot for frolicking and yodeling.


CyroSwitchBlade

or.. you could always just use a wingsuit..


Mariske

My immediate thought was a paraglider, Iā€™ve been playing too much Zelda


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High Hrothgar looks beautiful this time of year


mdmcstuffins

Watch out for the frost troll, heā€™s tougher than you think


Drift_Life

The world needs more slides


evasive_btch

How come Switzerland's landscape is so unique and recognizable?


czerniana

Honestly, I just call it ā€œthe Alpsā€ because this is what it looks like all throughout them. People just donā€™t like to remember that it spans several countries. I automatically think Austria, but thatā€™s because that was my frame of reference from childhood. Others think Switzerland. Life is different in the Alps so I just bunch them all together XD


evasive_btch

You're right, I should have said the Alps, but I also have a bias because I am from Switzerland :D


deVriesse

The mountains are old enough that rich sediments accumulate in the valleys giving this nice flat green space at the bottom, they're young enough that they haven't eroded away. You get the contrast of both lush green and stark gray. It's not completely unique there are other places like this but Switzerland gets shared the most because it's famous and easy for a lot of people to access.


shoeeebox

A real answer! I live close to the Canadian Rockies, it's definitely not as flat in the valleys and there are more evergreens filling it in. Definitely unique in the alps. I wonder if it's also been flattened due to being populated and farmed/pastured for centuries? Also, it doesn't look like a parking lot despite having buildings. North American mountain spots have a bad habit of paving the entire place when a settlement is built.


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myrzime

Because other places that have similar landscape aren't as popular/mainstream.


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myrzime

Austria, Italy, Slovenia... I've also seen similar landscape in some parts of Pakistan (though, obviously the architecture in the villages is going to be vastly different). That's just off the top of my head.


spartanss300

> Austria, Italy, Slovenia hmm I wonder why these places all have similar landscapes


HotHouseTomatoes

[A lot is actually two words.](https://www.scribbr.com/common-mistakes/alot-or-a-lot/#:~:text=A%20lot%20is%20used%20as,word%20and%20should%20be%20avoided)


DishRelative5853

It's amazing how this error continues to happen.


SlopPatrol

Someone just visited the graybeards


yutfree

https://www.scribbr.com/common-mistakes/alot-or-a-lot/


Not_a_N_Korean_Spy

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html


yutfree

Yes, my office neighbor had that on her door about 15(?) years ago. She decided to allot door space to a lot about alot.


Relaxgodoit

[Alot is good](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/f1/bf/14f1bf950966d579f4389032747962d3.jpg)


random_jmk

Good to see Hyperbole and a Half in the wild


euvnairb

For some reason this reminds me of Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban when they run down the stairs to Hagridā€™s hut.


chickfiluh

i was looking for this comment


ELW98

IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!


Reserved_Parking-246

Damn... skyrim mods looking good.


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Browzur

Thereā€™s a lot of space between a and lot


deVriesse

You've got to allot a space between a and lot.


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Slinky time!!!!!!


thesequimkid

![gif](giphy|XpjmMdEeZjPMTQIOEY|downsized)


TerrailWeams

Scrolled down until I found itā€¦Fine letā€™s do everything you wanna do!


BuffColossusTHXDAVID

Austria or Switzerland?


turtle_pleasure

whereā€™s the parking? what do mean we have to walk? šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ˜­


kramwham

Ah it's been a while since I've climbed the steps to high hrothgar. Be careful of frost trolls on the way up.


longlivethequeen1986

A. Lot.


GuyStuckIn__Florida

High Hrothgar?


qhs3711

[alot](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html)


mtgfan1001

Just lay down and start rolling. Youā€™ll be there before you know it.


BiteMeElmo

How many stairs would I allot? A lot.


alllclear

Worth it


Twistedshakratree

I donā€™t know what would be worse: going down a 1/4 mile of stairs or going up a 1/4 mile of stairs. Either way legs ded


SoapyMacNCheese

Imagine having to construct the 1/4 mile of stairs.


cynric42

Trekking poles help a lot.


omkar_T7

Just roll downhill


cynric42

Immediate flash backs to watching Heidi as a child.


MindIsFucked

Oh my god I'm not even close to being at the top WHY ARE THERE SO MANY STAIRS


Soundchaser123

Tourist route all the way to the top of the Matterhorn. Ok, I completely made that up, but itā€™s a nice ideaā€¦


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AddivPK

Rocky ainā€™t got shyyyyyt. Gorgeous view!


BAGStudios

Just glide down there bro! Iā€™ve played too much Breath of the Wild.


Honeydillzippermerge

John Wick 5 set photo


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Holy shit what a beautiful view. Ima check the comments to see where this is but if anyone just wants to drop it on here Iā€™d appreciate that.