The next day we hiked four hours on the “Wanderweg”, an intricate, mindblowingly well-organized system of trails through the region. We traipsed through snow-covered hills, wooded forests, afternoon shadows and past Swiss of all shapes and sizes, some on skis, some with dogs, some with toboggans. Following at all times our "gelbes rhombus" - instead of our more familiar AT white blaze. We had set our mind on a destination called “Egelsee”. I was thinking: expansive, still sea with waterside café and twittering winter birds. What we found: barely noticeable, still sea with weathered sign and: ourselves another 1+ hours walking from civilization (all of the trail distance signs were designated by hours, nary a kilometer in mind). We found that civilization in some town, whose name we still don't know. The Wanderweg dropped us out
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