00:00 In this episode I hike around the craziest colored lake I've ever seen by some mountain

00:06 streams that are glacier runoff.

00:08 This is one of the most strenuous but relaxing hikes I've ever done.

00:13 This is Nick with Bearded Adventures and we're bringing along with us, but first we have

00:18 to deal with a roadblock of goats.

00:20 Mountain goats are in my way.

00:25 The hike starts off on the northeast side of the lake near a hospital.

00:30 I'll put the name of that in the comments along with a link.

00:35 And then you hike around counterclockwise past several mountain streams that are runoff

00:41 from the glaciers.

00:43 And then finally back down a decent elevation to the base of the lake.

00:69 This is the start of a hike that you have to check the Swiss Army's web page to make

00:80 sure they're not shooting because it is a fighting range for the Swiss Army.

00:86 So this will be interesting and it's supposed to be a pretty intense incline up to a glacier.

00:98 It's interesting, the altitude is already kind of kicking my butt, but this area in

00:106 Switzerland is close to the Italian border so you never know if you need to speak German

00:113 or Italian.

00:114 I just passed a couple, they were German, but yeah, it's pretty neat.

00:120 But yeah, this hike so far, you can see, look at the view, it's freaking amazing.

00:126 This area has got unique rock formations to it and it holds a few different rock climbing

00:155 festivals throughout the year.

00:157 I learned that when I got back and did a little research in the area.

00:162 I just, I love this whole area, it's beautiful.

00:216 Good morning.

00:217 Good morning.

00:245 Look how crazy this lake is.

00:305 It's hard to describe how crazy this hike is surrounded all by giant mountains.

00:327 It's pretty sweet though.

00:335 It's crazy.

00:336 It's crazy.

00:337 It's crazy.

00:338

00:366 Yeah, this is completely worth depleting all of my vacation time.

00:415 So it appears the Swiss Army may have dammed this up, I'm pretty sure, that stream in order

00:439 to make this lake.

00:441 I'm not 100% sure why, but I'm glad they did it.

00:446 It makes it a beautiful hike.

00:451 Yeah, this is future me.

00:452 I did do some research and they did dam this lake up.

00:456 There's a village underneath that lake actually, but they dammed this lake up to make a reservoir

00:464 for hydroelectric power.

00:466 There's a hydroelectric dam and station further downstream from the lake here.

00:473 But yeah, this provides power to probably a whole lot of people.

00:527 Oh babe, thank you for bringing me along with you.

00:534 Look at this.

00:536 Hey, real quick, I want to talk about the AllTrails app.

00:540 I'm on a hike right now where the trail kind of comes and goes through the rocks and I'd

00:546 be lost if I didn't continuously check my AllTrails to make sure I'm on track.

00:551 But you can see this is a pretty amazing hike.

00:561 All this trail is marked very well with these markers.

00:592 All right, let's go.

00:620 I've ran into so many people on this hike.

00:647 Very, very nice people.

00:649 People from France, people from Switzerland and Germany.

00:654 And everyone's been great.

00:659 They're very surprised to see a boy from Michigan here.

00:662 But yeah, this is a pretty awesome hike.

00:669 Yeah, this sign says watch for falling rocks.

00:673 I didn't know that until I had service and could check on my phone the translation.

00:684 Look at the sheep up there.

00:686 I don't know if they're domestic or mountain goat sheep.

00:691 Not goats.

00:693 But yeah, look at the sheep up there.

00:696 I'm not sure if they're wild or domestic, but it's kind of neat.

00:700 I was wrong.

00:701 They were goats.

00:702 They were farm-raised animals that were out grazing.

00:706 Coming down the last of this, coming down the last of this hike.

00:714 I don't know whether it would have been better to come around clockwise instead of anti-clockwise the way I came.

00:722 But, well, maybe I got the hard part done in front of me.

00:728 Otherwise, I would have default descent over there.

00:732 My incline was rough over there with lots of rocks.

00:735 This is actually a much smoother, more dirt path than what I took on the way up.

00:745 So if you do this hike, I would suggest you do it clockwise.

00:753 All trails told me to go anti-clockwise, so there it is.

00:784 Here's some more of those mountain goats that were on the trail here.

00:789 You can see over the distance there.

00:791 You can hear some bells as well.

00:808 Well, that's the end of this hike.

00:810 Well, that's the end of this hike.

00:811 If you're still here, I appreciate you.

00:814 I do love making this kind of content because it just gets me out in some beautiful places.

00:819 But I appreciate you.

00:821 Thank you for watching, and I hope to see you on the trail.