14/10/2026
Val Ferret
Found a nice road 🛣️, quite large and away from humans and humans with dogs. Hiked up to a bridge and a stream and all the way back down. About 10km and on an easy road.
On the way down, ran into a flock of sheep (see photo) We waited an hour for them to pass but they were lingering. My dogs caught my tone, and sensed that they had to behave. Local shepherd was useless in helping out (Swiss customer service?), but his collies did a good job of moving these ladies along! Bravo collies!
Note that there were NO sheep on the way up otherwise we would not have gone near that area!
Life in the Valais brings some cow, donkey, sheep and goat encounters and quite frankly some trauma for me (been chased by a herd of goats in Verbier on a mountain top!)
Heidi is definitely not my fav story!
Lovely walk though!
