Cable cars, postie bus and toboggans

Stuffed as much ‘free’ breakfast down our throats as we could and then set off too, you’ve guessed it, ride some more cable cars. 

We started with Hannig in Saas-Fee which is 2336m by cable car. Rob was gutted to find out the gravity buggies did not open for the season until the next day so they decided to go ride the toboggan instead.








Debs face when Rob told her he wanted to walk back down.



We hope this never fell off


Look at that face, like a kid in a sweet shop


Then we jumped on the Postal bus (also included in your stay) and headed off to the neighbouring town of Saas-Grund. Guess what? Yep, we found another free cable car. This one was to Hohsaas, and although not the highest at 3200m it was definitely the longest.



We literally had 3 minutes at the top because the cable car was about to stop










Giving Rob ideas for opening their own place here

Marmots and mountains

We got up at about 9 (well we are on holiday), had breakfast and marched off to see what our newly acquired Saastalcard would get us for free. These are handed out if you are staying at one of the local hotels and entitle you to unlimited free cable card rides and postal bus trips. Free? We like the sound of that especially as two burgers will cost you £50 in Saas-Fee (we kid you not).

We decided to spend the day riding cable cars up to the various peaks and glaciers. While we were at the tourist information we also noticed they were selling Marmot food, basically bags of  shelled peanuts, interesting 🤔.

Always thought the T60 was the Rolls-Royce of snow blowers 






Lazy buggers like you to crack them open for them.





We call him bitey, even though they didn’t bike and in fact let you pet they.








Shhhh don’t tell anyone but he is in Deb’s rucksack

Ice caves and locomotives

Thankfully, there was no breakfast foe pars this morning. All went well until we tried to walk. It seems that a 2300-meter descent from the Aiguille du Midi yesterday really hadn’t agreed with our aging muscles. Rob was dragging himself about like Ivor the Boneless.

We therefore decided to take it easy choosing to take the Chemin De Fer Du Montenvers up to the Montenvers hotel and glacier. It is a rack and adhesion railway meaning it runs on a combination of rack and pinion and conventional friction wheels. It takes about 20 minutes to climb the 871 meters to the glacier.

Sad to think that this will completely have disappeared in 50 years due to global warming.



A series of steel staircases take you down to the glacier, which at first glance just looks like rocks, but as you get closer, you realise the rocks are sitting on top of the ice.





The Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) is the largest glacier in France, 7km long and 200m deep and is one of the biggest attractions in the Chamonix Valley.

Shhhh don’t tell anyone, I removed a bit.