I've been physically exhausted, emotionally exhausted. I think I now know what it's like to be spiritually exhausted.
4 Day weekend was necessary
Saturday
I was originally planning on going to Geneva but that got switched when I realized I was totally broke. So instead we went exploring through downtown Lausanne. Which is the beauty of Europe, you can live somewhere for 2 months, and there's still so much to do.
We went into a cathedral we've been into several times, but this time we found a trap door.
As I descended down into the depths of this church it was pitch black and I reached a cage, I tried to get through but it was securely locked.
...That's because it was a tomb. As we turned on our iPod/cell phone/various electronic device lights we discovered the remains of bodys....imagine if that cage would've been open...me wandering, in the dark over bones.
gross.
Other than me almost trampling over graves, it was a sweet day.
Sunday
A lot more chill than Saturday, mostly because we all sleep in until we literally can't sleep in anymore. Spent a little time at this wicked place called the Tea Room. It's everything Starbucks wishes it was and more. Minus the fact that Starbucks has better coffee. And I almost got emphysema last time I was there.
But the pastries are a bagillion times better, and bigger at the Tea Room.
Monday
Today we got to go snowboarding, and since it had been snowing the past 5 out of 6 days, we were all very stoked.
The morning was amazing.
The afternoon, was a little different.
3 of us decided to go through the trees, we thought we would end up back on the trail eventually, but we must have gone to far left, and ended up in this huge field....FULL OF POWDER.
We were stoked, and we happened to run into 9 others from our school.
Who let us know, that we were very very off track. We had no idea.
To make a long story short, I found a thin trail that headed left (opposite of the way we needed to head), and 6 of us (3 leaders, 3 students) decided to "check it out", but we got so far into it, that we decided it wouldn't be worth it to turn back.
We should've turned back.
We decided to try and head back down through this forest, but our comrades (who did not take the disastrous thin trail that headed left) called us and said "there's cliff after cliff after cliff then a waterfall...you'll never make it".
So we kept going on this thin trail that headed in the completely wrong direction.
We ended up, literally kilometres and kilometres away from where we needed to be.
It turned out we had taken a hiking trail, that was only open in the summer, and a road that was also only open in the Summer. It led to a open road, we decided to try and head down the Mountain instead of walking on the road.
We should have walked down the road.
So, no trail, no idea what's ahead. Let's Go.
We hopped about 7 fences, some of them barbed wire, slid on our butts down super steep patches of forest/dirt, hiked through knee - waist deep powder and eventually ended up in a tight spot after about 2.5 hours.
It was left cliff or the right cliff.
Left was a very steep and rocky cliff, right was also a very steep and rocky cliff, but there were lots of bushes that we could potentially hang on to as we "pinballed" our way down. As we were discussing what to do, we would literally start sliding down the top of the cliff, it was so steep.
It seemed pretty sketch, and I was the majority of the reason we took this horrible route, so I was feeling pretty responsible at the moment.
I decided to hike back up and walk along this fence...maybe it would get better.
So we hiked back up and re-hopped the fence and looked for another way down.
Then, we found switchbacks that led down the mountain.
Hallelujah.
So we rode down the rest of the way until we reached a mountain stream, in which we all lapped it up like a bunch of dogs. We reached the bottom of the mountain, and hiked through waist deep snow to a bridge which crossed the river and found a road. We then got on a bus and paid the fare to get back to the base of our mountain. We had completely gone past the mountain town and ended up a town over.
We were an hour late to the bus.
We left on our adventure at 12:30, we got down the mountain at 4:15, and got to our bus home, at 4:30. A four h our adventure that we had a lot of fun on. We were all sweating buckets, and spirits stayed high (except for the 2 cliff dilemma). Needless to say, my thighs were burning like none other when I got back.
When we looked behind us at what we would've gone down at the "2 cliffs dilemma", we realized that someone would've definitely died or caused themselves serious injury.
It was a sweet adventure though.
Tuesday
It snowed all day on Monday, and all morning Tuesday. Some of the best powder I've hit all season. I jumped off a couple roofs (and fell) without any fear of injury because the conditions were so prime.
Decent Weekend.
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