Uetliberg 2 - photos

We had a few hours to spare on Saturday, and it was a really nice day, so I decided to test my new camera out and follow Federbaer up Uetliberg, the mountain that had been staring over us all week long. Most of this was covered last post, but I thought I'd give it from another view, and with the fruits of my new camera :)
I'd made the mistake last trip of trying to walk up it on a Sunny day, so this time instead we took the train to the top, enjoying the views over Zurich along the way. Even getting of the train, our journey was not yet over however, and after about another 10 minutes of walking up hill we reached the peak, with Katie and Federbear enjoying the view:

It was a great view from up the top, both giving a sense of the size of the city (not actually all that big, compared to e.g. Sydney, but very flat) but also they lay of the land - from the top, you still couldn't see the end of the lake, but you could see plenty of Alps (including Snow! very far away...) plus lots of small towns in the middle of forrested hills when facing the other side of the mountain.

Meanwhile, as it happened there was a big shooting festival going on just at the bottom of the slope where it turns back into civilisation - which meant from where we stood, you could here the contestants firing, and also admire the views of the tiny people riding the tiny rollercoasters and ferris wheel. It seemed the perfect opportunity to test out the 'miniature' setting on my camera:

The latter photo is from the top of a radio tower at the peak which you can walk up, and get an even higher view of town. It was at the bottom of that where Federbaer enjoyed his iced coffee mentioned in the previous post, and after which we headed down a hiking slope to reach the bottom, surrounded by greenery and flowing water (and odd numbered light posts) all the way down, some of us taking a rest part way:

Finally, the entire album is available to browser here. I leave you today though with the best shot of them all - one of the outtakes from the trip was when I was trying to take another Zurich panorama and Federbaer managed to photobomb his way into the shot: