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As it was still fairly early, I decided to try to walk to Reid. However, this proved to be a much more challenging task than I was expecting.
On the way back to Zermatt there was a sign to Reid, so I followed that for a while. It led me a few hundred feed up the side of the valley before the trail simply ended.
So I backtracked towards Zermatt until I found another trail to Reid. Unfortunately, after a short while this turned into a "multi-use" trail, i.e. you have to share it with skiers. Besides being rather narrow, at that time of the afternoon there were many skiers making their way back to town for some apres-ski and I was basically walking in the opposite direction to them, which just seemed like a disaster waiting to happen.
So I backtracked again and tried to find the start of the GPS trail from the middle of Zermatt that I'd downloaded from the zermatt.ch website. Again, this proved surprisingly difficult to find. By the time I had actually found, it I was thoroughly bored and decided to head back to the chalet instead.
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