Little Family Trip - The Frozen Lake

Hello lovely Hiveans !

It's been a while, since my last post. As you may know, I relocated in January with my family into a beautiful mountain range and started my new job in February. I was quite busy so far with getting settled and used to the new environment. Three weeks ago, I already showed to you the beautiful view from halfway up to the mountain top 🏔️ .. If you are interested, you can find it here .. Our latest weekend journey was to a nearby lake that we saw in the map and wanted to check out. Today I like to show you what we discovered when we arrived there 🙂

The Frozen Lake

The lake was not far away, just 3 km, so it was a nice destination for a little weekend trip. We are the kind of person that would never work on weekends. Luckily I don't have to 😉 .. These days are there for the family, for relaxing, couching, hiking or any other valuable family activities. We are planing to make one "Out to Nature" day every Sunday, and the last one had this lake as a destination 🌊

As you can see on the firs picture, the whole lake was completely frozen ❄️ .. Since we arrived here in the area, we had temperature below zero every night. In January even as low as -15°C. Lately it is only -2°C, but it seems that this had been enough to completely freeze the lake until now 😁

The lake was not big and had no moving water, so it's not surprising that it could freeze that thoroughly. We did not had that ever where we lived in Germany and it was the very first time for my little son to see such thick ice, so we had a lot of fun there and inspected it very closely for a while 👀 .. It looked soo beautiful and he even even wanted to venture onto the ice. I am sure that it would have hold us, as even the biggest stones that I thought onto the ice with force were not able to crush it. But I didn't want to teach him bad behaviour that one day could put him in danger if he is alone and gets that idea again .. I still remember how risky I was as a kid 😜

The snow in the valley is already gone and I don't expect it to snow again until next winter. Thus, the area is left in a brownish colour that contrast to the white ice surface. I am still wondering, how the spring and summer will look like here, but I am already expecting to have some awesome hikes these days 🏞️

Playing with Ice

After we examined the whole lake already, we found the part of the lake where the Ice seemed to be the thinnest. There we started to crush the surface again, which thick branches, stones and what else we could find. But we stayed unsuccessful. Besides some minor scratches, we were not able to break the ice. It was just to solid, but it was a lot of fun and for a while we just watched branches and stones sliding over the slippy surface ❄️

There was even a spot that featured rather glassy ice and we could see through it to the ground. This day I also found out that educating physics to children is a fruitless task and that stones are just far more exiting 🤣

This frozen lake may not appear to spectacular to many people, but children can have sooo much fun with such simple things for such a long time. I nearly forgot that and was so happy to see him enjoying it so much. My wife had not that much fun, watching at ice for such a long time, especially not under her current circumstances 😜 .. When the time allows it again, I will bring some good old fashioned Road-Beers with us for her to compensate the effect of being to adult and foster some childishness 🤣

That's it for another impression of the beautiful Valais and one of our family Sundays out in Nature. This will be not the last time that we visit this place. Overall, there are many lakes here in the valley and even more up in the mountains to be found. But as it is only a 4 km away, it states a nice place for a quick visit in the future 😉

Thank You !

I hope you like this little frozen lake here and enjoyed it a bit, although I am sure that the little one definitely had the most joy with it 😊 .. I like to end this post with a picture that I took while we walked back after our lake visit.