Cabanne Illhorn

26 January 2010
Another day off!
The day before we leave was my last day off and I needed to have a good walk in the mountains.
I decided to walk up from Chandolin to the Cabanne Illhorn as I've heard from others that's an easy walk.
Marleen, the girl I work with and Staf the nightwatchman were free too, so they joined me. None of them have been to Chandolin before.
We were driving into the mist and Chandolin seemed to be wrapped up in the it. Not really the wide, open, sunny mountain view I anticipated. At the lookout point we decided to go up to the Cabanne Illhorn in spite of the mist, you could not see the valley, but you could see around you. We all needed the walk.

The church at Chandolin which I have never been able to see on the inside, it has been locked every time I came there.
Up the trail to Cabanne Illhorn we picknicked. In most of the little "cabannes" you are not allowed to have a picknick so when we saw this bench in the snow we decided to just stop here and eat. It was very cold and we did not hang around for very long.
At some point we had two signs showing us the way, the one said 10 minutes and the other 45 min to the Cabanne. Of course we took the 10 min walk ...... bad idea! It went over a ski-piste and almost straight up. Not only that, the mist became quite dense and we could not see that far. There was someone at the ski lifts and he told us that the cabanne is only 50 or 100 meters away. It was kind of eerie with the ski lift going and nobody in sight, the dense fog and this lonely ski slopes.

We did find the Cabanne not long after. We also found the reason why nobody were skiing, they were all in the Cabanne eating! My god, what was that little restaurant packed! Not room for the proverbial mouse. We squeezed in between all the others and feeling a bit quilty about making people move just for me to have a cup of tea, I ordered goulash soup and a piece of myrtille pie, which the area is famous for.

People came and went, you didn't sit around when you have finished, because there will be someone waiting. The food looked most delicious and I was sorry I sat down in the snow and ate sandwiches, oh well, next time ......!