Murren, Switzerland
March 13-18, 2005

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	Medium Large	Something tells me that this road leads to Switzerland.
	Medium Large	This is Lauterbrunnen, the town where we parked the car and took the train to Murren.
	Medium Large	This is the train to Murren. I've never seen anything like it before. Since the track was at a 45-degree angle, the train was as well. It was pulled up the track by a cable.
	Medium Large	View of Lauterbrunnen from the train.
	Medium Large	Ingenious Swiss luggage-transfer machine. This took our stuff from the angled train and put it on a regular train that took us the rest of the way to Murren.
	Medium Large	View to the west from my hotel.
	Medium Large	View towards the east. The leftmost peak is called Eiger, and according to Alessandro, is the reason that mountian climbing is no longer an Olympic sport. It is notoriously difficult. For the Berlin Olympics, Hitler wanted to make sure that the Germans won, so for practice the German team attempted to climb it. They got stuck, then the team sent to rescue them got stuck as well and nobody survived.
	Medium Large	Looking over Murren towards the Eiger.
	Medium Large	Another steep train ride up to some of the ski trails.
	Medium Large	Looking west.
	Medium Large	Another view towards the west. There's a cable-car tower in the center and a station in the upper right, called Birg, that's over 1 kilometer away from the tower. There's another cable car from Birg to the Schilthorn, the highest point directly accessable from Murren. I went up there later in the week.
	Medium Large	Another nice view towards the east.
	Medium Large	There isn't anything on this menu that I would eat, but I found the middle item interesting.
	Medium Large	My hotel.
	Medium Large	The Eiger, with a bit of blowing snow.
	Medium Large	View of Murren from the cable-car ride up to Birg.
	Medium Large	We took another cable car from Birg to the Schilthorn, which had a great 360-degree view of the area. It was used for the filming of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and was called "Piz Gloria" for the movie.
	Medium Large	Map of the main peaks towards the south.
	Medium Large	Picture of the same peaks.
	Medium Large	The Eiger and Monch peaks.
	Medium Large	The Monch and Jungfrau peaks.
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	Medium Large	Yeah, we're going to learn to ski!
	Medium Large	Me learning to ski.
	Medium Large	It wouldn't be Switzerland without a fondue party!