📌 Sample of an autumn day ☁️🍁🍂☁️

Magnolia 👩‍💻👨‍💻 afterwork 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

Sometimes I plan too long 🤫... and then ✂️🤷‍♂️

Cool socks 🧦🧦 run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Half 🌫 - half ☀️

I decided for Sargans since temperatures looked fairly warm (20°C) 🌡, no wind and plenty of sun ☀️ and the weather forecast did not fail today 🥳.

Easy start through Sargans and a fireroad up doing switchbacks ↪️↩️  with a nice gradient. It got a bit slow in the blue/white section with the ladder 🪜 but was short.

First peak ⛰️ was Gonzen, easy to access just last part was muddy slippery. Soon after I was surprise with Berghaus Palfries being open, so I leveraged it for some food 🍵☕️.

After Palfries terrain got slower... 🐌 or at least slower that what I planned but there were bail out options on the original route.

Alvier ⛰️ was very nice with quite a panorama view 👀🔄 including views to Walensee.

Downhill ⬇️ was good, not too long... and then there was a traverse, a few alpe all empty but luckily somewhere between Alpes I found water 🚰.

After a few traverses and one up ⬆️ I got to the 3rd peak ⛰️; Margelchopf. Quick stop for 🥪 and enjoy the sun since it was around 3pm... and there are not much hours of sun when going to deep valleys.

This downhill ⬇️⬇️⬇️, about 1000m felt quite long... rocky, uneven grass and at the end lots of leaves 🍁🍂🍁 with mud and rocks... 1h dancing brought me to "the bottom"; Voralpsee.

Voralpsee surprised me 🎁 with some mirrored mountains. I took some pics 📸 and kept going 🏃‍♂️. Here I changed the plan. I originally planned to do 2 "small" passes more and cross to Walenstadt... but it felt long to go at 4:30pm

So I decided to look for public transport connections on this side of the mountaina and I followed easy trails to make it to Wildhaus which still was about 10k 😅. That has 1h more of bus/train, but I got the uncommon doubledeck bus 🚍 of this area. At the end I only shaved 400m ⬆️ and 4 kms... and some downhill 🤭.

A day of new  trails, I only visited Palfries with Dead end and cakes 🧁 in 2022 with a different modality 🚴‍♂️. In all the peaks I found more than 4 people on a Monday 🙌.

#Route: Sargans - Staatswald - Rieterhütten - Folla - ⛰️Gonzen 🥪 - Rieterhütten - Berghaus Palfries 🍵☕️ - ⛰️Alvier - Barbielergrat - Altsäss-Obersäss 🍌 - Glanna 🍌 - ⛰️Margelchopf 🥪 - Isisizsess - Voralpsee - Voralp - Lochgatter - St. Galler Weid - Wildhaus

#⛰️Gonzen: 1829m
#🏠Berghaus Palfries
#⛰️Alvier: 2343m
#⛰️Margelchopf: 2163m
#🌊Voralpsee
#⛰️⛰️Wildhaus: 1098m
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David Lopez Valero

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📌 Sample of an autumn day ☁️🍁🍂☁️

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Sometimes I plan too long 🤫... and then ✂️🤷‍♂️

Cool socks 🧦🧦 run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Half 🌫 - half ☀️

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