I'll keep posting Turkey photos, but I'm actually now in Flims in southeast-central Switzerland, site of a lovely hiking-skiing resort today but the site 15,000 years ago of the biggest rockslide in the Alps - so big they call it a mountain fall! Like Yosemite's Half Dome. The Flimserstein (which we see from our balcony and which changes aspect every few minutes as the shadows move across it) is the half of the mountain which didn't collapse...
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Flimserstein
I'll keep posting Turkey photos, but I'm actually now in Flims in southeast-central Switzerland, site of a lovely hiking-skiing resort today but the site 15,000 years ago of the biggest rockslide in the Alps - so big they call it a mountain fall! Like Yosemite's Half Dome. The Flimserstein (which we see from our balcony and which changes aspect every few minutes as the shadows move across it) is the half of the mountain which didn't collapse...