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| Dying to know .... did you go??!!
Know Rigi and the walk well and you are right, pulling a sledge up would be hard work so if you did go, which option did you take?? You could have always trained it up to say, Staffelhohe and then done a shortened walk to the Kulm??
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Hi ecb and fellow EFers... Happy new year to you, too! I hope you all had a nice Xmas and festive season
For any of you who might be interested in knowing how our experience went...
After a nice relaxing day with lots of opportunities for kittycat to snooze, she went to bed with a nice full tummy at 17:30. She slept well until 19:30 when we woke her up, gave her her last boobie feed and a fresh disposable nappy (usually she has cloth, but in the carry sack it's more comfy for her with (oecoplan) disposables).
We wrapped her up nice and warm (wool thermal under shirt x 2 and stockings + extra thick knitted socks from aunty that go up to the knees + thermal wind proof down filled boots + Thick lined fleece pants + thick lined wind/water proof ski pants that are too long for her and cover her feet. + The ski pants have a thick fleece vest built in + a thick vaude 'funny turtle' fleece; thick thermal gloves; vaude kids hardshell jacket that are too long for her and cover her hands fully).
We set off in the car just after 20:00.
On arrival (Seebodenalp) we put the wind + water proof hardshell (vaude kiddies range). In the car she'd built up a good reserve of warmth too.
We (in total 10 of us with one 6mth pregnant woman) left the carpark at around 21:30. On the way up (600 alt. meters to Rigi Staffel) she slept 30mins. Otherwise she was wide awake taking everything in. At our destination, arrival 23:45 (just down from Rigi Staffelhöhe) we took her out of the carry sack to cuddle and move around for the 45mins we were there to drink mulled wine (I was driver so didn't drink).
*A note to the lunatics at the Staffelhöhe lookout point = Do NOT place a large fountain firework 5 metres away from a group of people!!
We headed back down following the loop track to Seebodenalp at 00:30 or so. Kittycat slept briefly, but was mostly awake taking it all in.
It was 02:00 by the time we got back to the car and drove off. Kittycat slept the whole way in the car. By 03:00 we were home. I breast fed her and had nice long cuddles (she slept while drinking and cuddling) before popping her in to bed at 03:15. She slept through until 09:00.
After breakfast and a fresh nappy she went straight back to bed and slept for 3 hours. In the afternoon she had another 1 hour nap.
In total for a 24 hour period she is in top form with about 13.5 - 14 hours sleep. On this occasion she had 12.5 in total and slept and extra hour on Jan the 2nd to catch up.
As far as weather protection and warmth is concerned, she was not as toasty warm as I would have liked, but she was not too cold. By the time we had cuddles and a feed she was OK again.
I think I was more unsettled and worried about things than she was.
The biggest issue for us was the hoards of people on the mountain this year. Last time we were pretty much the only ones there. Next time I think we'll try a less popular destination.
I hope this helps any one else who may be planning to take their little ones out in the snow. I think it's fine as long as you wrap up nice and warm and take a break each hour or two for baby to move around and cuddle.
Take care, Everyone
Puddy