E1 - official end of first half

It is with greatest sadness that I have to announce the premature discontinuation of the E1 project as per today.

Yesterday I have been staying at the hotel to rest and see how the weather develops. Just as weather forecast said it started to lightly rain in the early afternoon leading to heavy rainfalls in the late afternoon and to thunderstorms through the whole night. As per forecast this weather is going to continue until Friday at least, maybe even Sunday.

I wouldn't have had problems with that on a lower altitude. Actually the first few days of the hike were like this. If I am going on a mountain hike though, I'd rather want it to only lightly rain or better to be dry. Even if it is sunny there is a lot of water in the mountains. If it is raining you are basically walking in a gutter, because the paths serve as such for the water. It is all slippery and muddy. It is not necessarily dangerous. I still respect nature and my own exhaustion at this point in time though. No need to obsess or force myself to continue.

Right now I am sitting in the train from Sedrun to Andermatt. At the altitude I planned to hike there is a dense fog. You can barely see 20m. I will go via Andermatt - Göschenen - Basel SBB back home to Braunschweig. This will take me 10 hours by train.

That said I hereby officially declare the first half (!) of the E1 hike from Lake Constance to Como to be successfully (of course) completed. Continuation of the journey beginning in Sedrun will commence, when circumstances are better (i.e. most probably some time next year :( ...).

And now I am coming back from Swiss mountain cold (14ºC today) to Northern German summer heat (30ºC today)... :)