Hello mummy,
Today I got up early. A trip on the program. According to the weather it is 30 degrees Celsius today. I wanted to put on my shirt but Jasper consisted on the warm sweater. After half an hour's drive we reached the Schwägalp (1352 meters above sea level) I saw high mountains with white spots.
Jasper said to me: This is snow. I wanted so much to go there.
And so we boarded the cable car
and drove up the mountain Säntis.
At 2,502 meters above sealevel, Säntis is the tallest mountain in the Alpstein massif of northeastern Switzerland. The mountain is a highly visible landmark.
The panorama from the summit is spectacular.
Six countries can be seen if the weather allows: Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, France and Italy.
The exposed location of Säntis results in weather conditions normally observed in the high Alps. For example in April 1999, just beneath the summit on the northern snowfield of the mountain, a snow height of 816 cm recorded what. The daily mean temperature is -1.9 ° with a precepitation of 2,701 mm per year.
The International Meteorological Congress of Rome in 1879 declared it as a necessity to build weather stations on adequate and accessible summits. Therefore the Swiss built a weather station on Säntis. (Commissioned in autum 1882)
Located on the peak of the Säntis is a 123.55 meter high transmission tower.
Mom, what can I say, the weather was wonderful. Jasper showed me all the six countries.
Here you can see on the horizon of Lake Constance.
The TV Tower was impressive.
I sat on rocks
and admired rare alpine plants.
I visited an exhibition of minerals - beautiful.
The most beautiful was: I could play in the snow.
I was sitting on the snow,
I was lying in the snow,
I dug down in the snow.
Jasper told me that the snow in June is not as nice and powdery as in the winter. That did not bother me. It was cold, it was wet but it was snow.
Many greetings from the happiest hippo in the world
Ismaya