Our Adventure Takes us to Zermatt & The Matterhorn

In Zermatt, we stayed at the local youth hos­tel for 2 nights — the grand­par­ents were great sports! We bunked down in an 8 room mixed sex dor­mi­tory!
The Hartshorn fam­ily took the cable car and gon­dola as far up The Matterhorn as we could. It was snow­ing at the top and the air was very thin. More adven­tur­ous souls hiked with ice picks and ice shoes on their way up to the peak.
As Mac said, the cable car “was like being sus­pended in a soap bub­ble hun­dred of feet up in the air.“
The ter­rain kept chang­ing the higher we climbed. Sheep with huge horns, mar­mot — a lot like ground hogs– scur­ry­ing around. I was near tears when I saw the beau­ti­ful glac­i­ers, what an incred­i­ble sight.
On the way back down we got off the cable car a few stops before the bot­tom and hiked through the for­est and ham­lets back into Zermatt. We wan­dered around Zermatt , a town that takes pride in the great con­di­tion of its many of the 16th Century log cabins.