Switzerland & Italy 2023

While hiking today we passed through Blaunca. This village is a collection of four or five houses and a wonderful stream feeding through it. These steps caught my eye. Stone embedded into the building, and then using additional stones between the steps to provide additional support. Incredible.

Rustic stone staircase built into the exterior wall of an old alpine stone building, with flat slate steps and wooden windows.

On todays hike to Soglio we hit a large thunderstorm. We were luckily able to all huddle under this old out building with a decent overhang on the roof and stay relatively dry and get a group photo!

Group of eight hikers in rain gear sheltering from a storm under the stone overhang of an old building, smiling for a selfie.