Zurich -> Lausanne, hops planing

My last year walk from Zurich to Munich was about 240 kilometres in a beeline, and I did it in 10 days,  that means, I did 24 km the day. But actually, this was not true, to walk 24 km beelines I had to walk at about 50% more (to follow bridges, to walk not straight over the top of mountains and so on), so apparently I walked about 35 km the day.
The walk from Zurich to Lausanne is way shorter, 170 km beeline. And this time I thought, it would be nice to walk less, just to have the time to jump in the water on a hot day, and do not to suffer so much on body pain as last time.


As it appears now, the idea was good, but the terrain is crossing my plan of recreation heavily - I didn't have been aware of it on the map, but using the google earth profiler something unexpected appeared.

First the profile of the walk to Munich:

Second the way to Lausanne:

(Attention: the length and the height in both graphs are not the same, they are stretched to fit into the same box)

Obviously this way is much more hilly.
If you just mention the first rise at the left, approx. 4 km: that's the mount Albis... and the Albis is already something to walk over. Measured on that, I have to walk now about 8 of it, almost one for every day. Cheers! On a good day I could have even 2 of it.

But at least I will have a good view on many times.

These have been the facts. Now the fiction: the scheduling of the walk.
I plan to start to walk at Thursday, June 21 2011, if nothing is disturbing (hail, thunderstorms, diseases, panic...) this would be the stages:

Thu July 21: From Zurich to Boswil in the Freiamt
Fri July 22: From Boswil to Rickenbach, close to the Sempachersee (lake).
Sat July 23: From Rickenbach to Willisau
Sun July 24: From Willisau to Sumiswald
Mon July 25: From Sumiswald to Muri/Bern
Tue July 26: From Muri to Rüschegg
Wed July 27: From Rüschegg to Marly/Fribourg (language boarder!!)
Thu July 28: From Marly to Autigny
Fri July 29: From Autigny to Rue/Moudon or Oron... depends a little bit to my final track plannings and the free hotel room situation
Sat July 30: from there to Lausanne - today I think, I will hate myself in the future, if I wouldn't cheat the concept at the end and take a walk a little bit to far in the south, to see the Lavaux from inside... I'll see.

 x x x x CALL x x x x

Who ever like to be involved in real, for one daytrip or even longer: this above is the schedule. Of course I can't promise if I stick to it or if I get delayed - the frequent infos on my twitter account will indicate my progress/inform about changes: http://twitter.com/#!/Zueri_Lausanne
Appointments with me could be done via twitter messaging or by contacting me with a text on my mobile: +41 76 563 73 85.

Conditions:
1. I guarantee for nothing.
2. Everybody is responsible for his/her own accommodation and aliment (but I could tell, where I think I go to sleep at the relevant evening). I suggest to carry an apple and one banana for surprising hunger, some grape sugar against lack of energy and a container for about one litre of water and of course enough money... I prefer to buy my food in stores, petrol stations and restaurants (less to carry).
3. I have nothing to spare: decide for clothes that are suitable for the (weather) conditions of the relevant day(s).
4. Usually I try to leave places with breakfast at 8 am, places without already at 7 am.
I don't know yet, when I arrive at the evening, latest about 5 pm is the target.

But keep in mind: I break for nobody, and gentlemen never run.



If you are still curious: I look forward to meet you.

Training 13, Sun. July 17, 2011, up the river Sihl (16 km)

At my last visit in one of this outdoor/trekking shops they told me, that the most exciting thing to have is now merino wool. I put all my financial capacity into high-end synthetics that already oil production companies started to like me personally and now I should change everything into that basic material.
In matters of reducing pain I'm very willing to follow new movements, so I gave that thing a chance, first with one pair of socks.







































I started the day pretty much at 7 am at the lovely Sihlquai. Just about two months in ahead this place was still crowded with all the symptoms of street prostitution. But the city decided to clean that thing up.
Everything has improved since than - the avalanche of gentrification took over another spot.

The beginning of the river Sihl... some people would say that should be at spring, but I'm not sure about. I think, the rivers have been named at their most powerful site, and after the name were growing from there until the finest parts. Or was it democratic decision of all the people who have been living on it? Anyway: how get mountains their name? I can imagine, that they had a different name from every valley they have been seen - and somebody fixed it, as the first map has been drawn. We don't know.

The Sihl is the smaller of the both rivers in the city of Zurich, but it is punished much more.
Here it has to crawl through the railway station, between the ground level and the subways underneath of it.

Maybe even because of this permanent punishments it's not so much trusted as the bigger river, the Limmat: all the houses have way more distance to its surface.

I mean to remember, that the 'Neue Börse' (new stock exchange) was nationally awarded once as a trend-setting building... times changed.

One part from the landlord was ordering this nice wall painting to amuse the public, the other part ordered the privacy screen.

 Fascism likes to appear together with competitive sports.

As I told.

The human scale.







































Another treatment they invented for that river.

It was probably in the 1950ies, when the auto enthusiasm was the biggest in Switzerland, where they had the idea to bring the national motorways directly into the heart of the city to spice it up with life. Because Zurich was already existing and it was not the same easy as let's say in Paris to brake hundreds of houses down to do so, somebody, probably the most clever one of all developers had the idea to build it above the river, because like that nobody will loose something.
After that the 1980ies came, with them the waldsterben and the opinion changed - this happened right here.































Swing.







































Two wall flowers.

The renaissance of gesture - the death of a formerly hip brand:
He's holding a iPhone without having one in the hand.

In matters of a secularised society I read often 'paradise', and mostly in combination with 'children'.

On the first look it appears like perfect condition for natural grass - but probably the groundsman decided, it's way better to have artificial ones.

"Kunst muss hängen", Martin Kippenberger
The Smiths: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlH2oYedfk







































Thanks, I'm fine.







































Dragoon - any sexual insinuations are completely accidental.

The "we had a outstanding night" monument

And the "we swear our clique will never tear" piece.

Where the Sihl feels a little bit like the Thames.

When men would really (without any disturbance) rule the world.

And right after pushing the button I've got the feeling, that somebody else must have made that picture already in the past.

The last piece of resistance.

Swans in Sunday suits.

Nice planning - looks even nicer on the picture without the railway tracks right beside of it.

The truth might be somewhere in there.







































The impact of "Lord of the rings" to our society.

Once in the night Christo was sneaking by.

Yes, my curse is broken.

Another treatment.

And suddenly nobody knew anymore what to tell.

It was the only toy they could find what was fitting to the house.

And suddenly they fall like leaf in the fall.

Maybe punk is not dead, but hip hop definitely is.







































In fact it's way easier to make documentation shots of winding towers.
































But it could be also art...

How Bernd and

Hilla started their working day.

The occasion was human.

Just the weather might be nicer.






























Somehow everything ended at the moment when Mickey decided to be a two-dimensional life form.

A succesesful get-together of culture and nature.

The urbanists survival camp.

This river breathes a lot.

A roof like the weather.

And the impact of hundred years wood impregnation to the ground.







































After 3.5 hours of walking, and 16 km distance I gave up - it was the rain.
But at least because of that, the museum shop in the wilderness park got one visitor at that day.