Full moon, sunrise, and a very long walk

It was the night before the full moon and the weather was perfect, so we set out for a full-moon hike and to have breakfast while watching to sunrise. The rest of the plan for the day was just to do a long hike.

We left at 4:30 with the idea of having a couple of hours under the moon before the sun came up at ~6:40. Good theory, but we mis-calculated how long the hike to our planned breakfast spot would take. Fortunately we realized this while hiking, changed plans, and did a bit of light running to reach a bench above Oberwil with a good view in the right direction.

The moon was super bright (I love moon shadows!), we had a beautiful sunrise and a good breakfast and then started walking again. Eventually we decided that Delemont would be the goal, so that's what we did.

This ended up being our longest hike so far. Super fun, great day!

Track:

Stats: 

Total time: 10 hours (7:24 moving according to my watch), 42.8km, 1300m up, 1200m down.

Orvin climbing

An absolutely beautiful sunny and and cool Spring day!

We went to the crag NNN above Orvin. There were just a few other people there when we arrived, but it ended up being pretty crowded. I guess not that surprising considering the quality of the rock and routes. I shudder to think what it must have been like at the crags that have shorted approaches!

Sector NNN

G starts

Routes:

 Yakari 5a+

La poursuite de bonheurs 5b+

Verdon facile 5b+

Toit va bien 5c+

Hammer 5c (A only)

Gerpete 6a (A only)

G ran out of motivation at the end and just did belaying.

Instead of going directly back to Orvin, we continued along the path to the ridge and then walked down to Frinvelier.

Trailrunning Reigoldswil/Passwang to Grellingen

G started in Reigoldswil and went up to Vogelberg via the Jaegerwegli, then down to Passwang. A took the bus to Passwang and we met there.

We continued together along to Hohe Winde (very different today than last time we were there), then down to Beinwil, eventually through the Chaltbrunnental to Grellingen.

The part we did together was almost all runnable and very flowy, super fun and nice views.

Good day out!

Track and stats to come.