10 July ’05, Sunday. The Lauterbrunnen Valley Girls. One thing we could all agree on was, we could all have slept much longer this morning. With the mountains looming high above us, the sun doesn’t come into the valley (if and when it comes at all…) until late in the morning and then leaves early in the evening. We have a lot of “white noise” from the river and the numerous waterfalls, to help us sleep. Yep, we could just sleep on and on… Today we went for a discovery walk around the area of the village we are in and the next back one down the line. We followed the river trail, that runs through the Lauterbrunnen Valley, until we reached our next site, about 2 miles away. Trummelbach Falls, must be well known to a lot of people, as we definitely weren’t the only one there. I had never heard about it before, but now that I’ve been there… The water for the Trummelbach, comes from a number of the largest mountains in the Alps, and thunders down through a mountain most of the way, before it reaches the outside. They have built a large elevator that climbs through the mountain for about 200 feet, and then you climb the stairs through tunnels and then finally reach the main display of falls. There are a number of stops on the way to the top, that you can see and feel the pulse of the water falling, twisting, and smashing it’s way to the bottom several hundreds of feet below. The way up and down was in tight quarters and narrow stairs that sometimes was cantilevered over the falls. The water was constantly on you from the splash or just from the dripping off of the walls and ceilings. They say there is over 5,200 gallons a second flowing through this fall…really spectacular. We continued our walk along the river, watching all the waterfalls pitching their load of water from just about every crack or shoot off of the mountains above us. After reaching Lauterbrunnen, we had a very nice lunch, and then caught a bus back to Stechelberg and the campsite. We were ready to just take it easy, and get ready for tomorrow…Gimmelwald, Murren, Schilthorn and more…