Could you be alone in the Alps?

When one walks through a city one expects to find people. Even in rainy days, you will encounter some guy whom was caught by the storm halfway from his home. When you go hiking, you don't want to meet anyone. But due to the density of the European population and the love for the nature of the Germans, you can't avoid meeting people which had the same idea as you.

Pause before going up

This time our girl scout planned a longer trip as last week, more difficult and with less schade. After walking through some farms, where we only met cows, we began to go up. Four hours later we reached the rocky summit of Lacherspitze (1724 m.). There we realized that we weren't alone. While a couple of paragliders were flying over the mountains near us, two boys were doing a picnic on a rock just 20 meters away. When we started to go down, we met three German mens in military uniforms. It took them more than ten minutes of discussion to respond us that the next trail started just 100 meters from there. I'm sure they weren't from the Army. After taking it, we were always accompanied from some other hikers. At the end of the day, we had met more than fifteen people in the mountains.

If so many people hike in the Alps, it is easy to understand why Europeans invest money to maintain and mark trails: it is cheaper than recuesing those who got lost.