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Longbyt · #30 05.04.2010, 15:19

Hike –from Rüti (ZH)- Güntisberg - Rüti (ZH)
Time - 3 ½ hours, Distance -12 Km, Uphill – ca. 250m, Downhill - ca. 250m
Starting point – 'Park and Ride' near the Railway Station.
Link to GPS track and pictures.
This hike might have been better done in the other direction as after the attractive deep valley of the stream one walks through an industrial area (lots of Motorbikes) which is a bit of a let down.

This is another easy trip. Well marked, no map really needed, but using one helps you to get the lie of the land for future hikes. Quite a bit is through woods. Plenty of wood anemones at the moment, one bank covered in violets and a few stray specimens of coltsfoot.
I instantly recognised the school out at Mettlen from a hike several years ago – practically in the middle of nowhere. One sees the same thing in the Emmental and in the Jura– a school without a village. The children come from the surrounding farms and hamlets. It’s perhaps a good thing that children are not normally impressed by views. Adults surely wouldn’t get a stroke of work done as they would spend their time looking at the panoramic view from the window of the schoolroom.
One restaurant, on the Güntisbergstrasse (on the map you can see the slight detour we made and came back the same way). They had delicious ‘Nussgipfeli’ – ‘nut croissants’ which kept the wolf from the door successfully.

A pleasant afternoon.