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Rod's Euro 2010 - Trip Report 4-Aug-2010 At 5:20:40 PM rod

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been doing a few walks exploring some of the historical side of the alps, the most recent was a bise (small canal) at torrent neuf in the valley which goes up to sanetsche. water was necessary to irrigate crops during the dry summer months and they had to go hunting distant water descending from glaciers. there's plenty of them throughout the valley but in this case it's a bloody amazing piece of work dating from the 1400's. look at some of the historical photo's to get an impression of the gas these people had under their arses with little protection other than paying attention. the face traversed is a chosspile so plenty of the people would have been creamed over the years.

the walk itself is a 45 minute stroll each way with some nice long suspension bridges offering really good views.

Also done quite a bit of socialising ahead of the swiss national day, these were on a friends wall.