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Thursday - After having finished yesterday making a lot of effort to find the start of the GPS trail to Reid, I thought I would start Thursday by capitalising on that effort and walk to Reid.
So I headed back to the start of the trail and set off. Within 50 meters the real trail in the snow had deviated from the marked trail on my GPS and I was on a snow covered slope that I could barely cling to, even with spikes on my boots and a pair of walking poles! I managed to scramble up the slope and picked up the trail again a couple of hundred meters away, where it promptly let me to the front door of someone's chalet. At this point I decided to give up on the insane GPS trail altogether and went to find another signposted trail that I'd passed about 20 minutes earlier.
This also initially proved to be challenging, with the first 50 meters-or-so being very steep to the point that I was again barely able to cling on with my spikes and poles. However, after that it leveled out a lot and reverted to the standard trail format I'd become used to.
It turned out to be a rather short trail too, as I arrived in Reid about 30 minutes later. This is the view looking back towards Zermatt from the trail. Having passed through Reid, I ended up back on the "multi-use" trail I had avoided walking on yesterday afternoon. However, this early in the morning no skiers were thinking of returning to Zermatt yet, so I had the whole thing to myself.
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