Patience and the panorama
We awoke to see low cloud shrouding the mountain. There was nothing to do but sit and wait, refreshing the summit webcam and the weather app.
Our immediate future was in the hands of the Swiss Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology. Would the forecasters’ prediction of an end to the heavy rain, a lifting of the cloud, prove correct? There were some promising signs but the view on the Rinderberg webcam remained stubbornly blank with cloud wrapping the summit.
We paced around the apartment, packed and repacked our lunch, tried to read our books. But it was never long before one of us reached for a phone to refresh the webcam page and check on progress. What would we do if the cloud didn’t lift? This was our final day in the mountains and our last chance to walk the Rinderberg-Horneggli route before our Interrail journey moved on.