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In July 2013, I hiked the Walker's Haute Route for a second time, this time with my parents. The experience was even more marvelous and memorable the second time. Click here to go to my trip report: Walker's Haute Route 2013.
(Before I begin, I'll note that I have received quite a few responses to this trip report—such as inquiries about lodging and food costs, maps, footwear, necessity of stove or sleeping bag, phone usage, accessibility of plugs and wi-fi along the route, reservations, pack weight, weather and conditions, shortening or doing a section of the route, and other logistical information. In my 2013 trip report, I address several of these issues. Also note that in 2005, my sister and I hiked the route in late June/early July, which is slightly early in the season—while hiking the route early in the season means you do not need to make reservations at the huts/hostels (which is probably a good idea in the peak season of late-July and August), it also might lead to some snow at the high passes, depending on the conditions of the preceding winter/spring.)
In the early summer of 2005, my sister and I spent two weeks backpacking along the Walker's Haute Route. The Walker's Haute Route begins in Chamonix, France and ends in Zermatt, Switzerland; in-between is 180 km of trail and road through some of the most beautiful parts of the Swiss Alps. (Note that the Walker's Haute Route is different from the true Haute Route (often skied) from Chamonix to Zermatt: while the two routes sometimes overlap, the Walker's Haute Route is a non-technical backpacking trip on trail and roads, while the Haute Route is a more technical high traverse involving glacier travel and more off-trail terrain.) During our fortnight of our adventure on the Walker's Haute Route, we found ourselves in a wonderland of snow-capped Alps rising out of spectacular valleys, delightful Swiss villages and remote alp hamlets, flower meadows and fragrant forest, icy streams and majestic glaciers. We spent our nights in high mountain huts or quaint Swiss villages, experiencing the wonderful European mountain culture. Some of the days were quite rigorous: up to 1800m/6000ft elevation gain or loss on some of the legs! Although the weights of our packs admittedly met North Cascades standards, it is very possible to hike this route with relatively light packs since each night you can stay in a hut or hostel and the route passes through several small Swiss villages. We never had a need for a portable stove or more than a few days worth of food. The price of the huts and hostels ranged from 20-30 CHF/bed, expensive by our tenting standards, but it was more than worth it for the unique experience.
When we reached the hopping city of Zermatt, we capped off our adventure with a climb of the Matterhorn. This was a true experience in European mountaineering culture: sleeping and dining in a heated hut high on Hornli Ridge, talking to people paying thousands of dollars to be guided up the mountain, and basking in the spectacular Swiss Alps scenery complete with cable car lines and views of Zermatt far below. Although we fell short of the summit by a few hundred meters because of inclement conditions, click here to see the trip report for the Matterhorn.
We found Kev Reynolds' guide Chamonix-Zermatt: The Walker's Haute Route to be indispensable. In it you can find all the cheaper lodging options (hostels or matratzenlagers), where to buy groceries (you never have to pack more than a couple days of food with you), elevations of all the passes and villages, hiking distances, where to find the post buses, etc. This guide covers every turn and signpost on the Walker's Haute Route, and you'll find you don't even need a map if you have this guide in hand. I would recommend this guide to anyone planning to hike any section of the Walker's Haute Route.
Below is a map showing the path the Walker's Haute Route takes through the Swiss Alps and villages (click to enlarge - it's rather blurry, sorry!). The route is outlined in blue, and the red highlights indicate the places we stayed during our thirteen day trip.
The rest of this page gives a detailed report for each day we spent on the Walker's Haute Route. The challenge of writing this report was choosing a single photo to represent each day!
Outline of Trip
|JOUR 1 - June 23
|Grenoble --> Chamonix --> Argentière
|9 km (we rode a train instead of hiked the trail)
|JOUR 2 – June 24
|Argentière --> Trient
|JOUR 3 - June 25
|Trient --> Champex
|JOUR 4 – June 26
|Champex --> Le Châble
|JOUR 5 – June 27
|Le Châble --> Cabane du Mont Fort
|JOUR 6 – June 28
|Cabane du Mont Fort --> Cabane de Prafleuri
|JOUR 7 – June 29
|Cabane de Prafleuri --> Arolla --> La Sage
|Hiked 16km and took a post bus 10km from Arolla to La Sage
|JOUR 8 – June 30
|La Sage --> Cabane de Moiry
|JOUR 9 – July 1
|Cabane de Moiry --> Hotel Weisshorn ('Doitoir')
|TAG 10 – July 2
|Hotel Weisshorn ('Doitoir') --> Gruben
|TAG 11 – July 3
|Gruben --> St. Niklaus --> Gasenried
|Hiked 16km and took a post bus 4km from St. Niklaus to Gasenried
|TAG 12 – July 4
|Gasenried --> Europa Hut
|TAG 13 – July 5
|Europa Hut --> Zermatt
|TAG 14-16 – July 6-8
|Climbed the Matterhorn. (Click link for trip report)
Charts and Tables (locations, lodgings, distances, elevation gains/losses, expenditures, etc.).
Photos and Trip Notes
JOUR 1: June 23
Grenoble --> Chamonix --> Argentiere (1251m)
SHORT NOTES: We rode a train instead of taking the 9km trail. We stayed at Le Belverdere in Argentiere, for 12.50 euros each.
LONGER DESCRIPTION: While we chose to take the train from Chamonix to Argentiere, there is a 9km trail (with a moderate 214m of elevation gain) from Chamonix to Argentiere. It is a pleasant valley walk through woods and open glades on a woodland path. On the walk to Argentiere there are several opportunities to gaze upon the Mont Blanc massif dominating the valley. As well as having its own train station (most of the towns we encountered on the Haute Route did not have easy train access), Argentiere has a few hotels (cheapest was the hostel La Belverdere at 12.50 euros a bed), a few restaurants, a grocery store, tourist information, and an outdoors store. We bought just enough groceries for the next day's hike, since we knew the next night in Trient we would be able to purchase groceries again. Because of its proximity to Chamonix and the Tour de Mont Blanc (another popular hike around the Mont Blanc massif), this part of the Haute Route is usually pretty busy.
JOUR 2: June 24
Argentiere (1251m) --> Trient (1279m)
HIKED: 12km, 953m elevation gain, 925m elevation loss.
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Le Tour, Charamillon, Col de Balme, and Le Peuty. We bought tuna&egg sandwiches at Charamillon. The Col de Balme was on the border of France and Switzerland. We stayed at Relais du Mont Blanc in Trient, for 21 CHF/bed.
LONGER DESCRIPTION: For a first full day's walking this is a relatively undemanding stage, despite nearly 1000m of elevation gain and loss. The trail out of Argentiere rises steadily among trees, and then drops down to the village of Le Tour. There are signposts marking every junction, as there are on the entire Walker's Haute Route. There is a gondola lift from Le Tour to the Col de Balme, but it is much more rewarding (and cheaper!) to climb the 1000m yourself, using the grand views of Mont Blanc as a frequent excuse to take a short break. My sister and I stopped at Charamillion (the gondola lift station halfway up the hill) and bought tuna and egg sandwiches. Then we hiked on to the Col de Balme, which lies on the border of France and Switzerland - the rest of the hike all the way to Zermatt will be in Swiss territory. The valley of Trient into which you descend on the other side of the col is green and pastoral. Trient is a quaint Swiss town nestled on the valley floor. It has a few dortoir (hostel) accommodations, as well as a food store and a postbus link. We bought another day's worth of groceries at the store in Trient. Much of this stage of the Walker's Haute Route is shared with the route of the Tour de Mont Blanc, so there are plenty of other hikers.
JOUR 3: June 25
Trient (1279m) --> Champex (1466m)
HIKED: 14km, 1,386m elevation gain, 1,199m elevation loss.
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Chalet du Glacier, Fenetre D'Armpette, and Armpette. We stayed at Gite D'etape in Champex for 27 CHF/bed.
LONGER DESCRIPTION:The crossing of the Fenetre d'Arpette (a rugged pass) is a classic outing and one of the most demanding of the whole Walker's Haute Route (nearly 1400m elevation gain!). A broad grass track leads out of Trient, and becomes a bisse path (a bisse is an irrigation watercourse). After several signposted forks in the trail, the climb to the Fenetre d'Arpette begins in earnest. Frozen cascades of the Glacier du Trient's icefall are in view nearly all the way up. To the east of the pass lies a whole new world - the descent into the lovely pastoral Val d'Arpette begins with a wild and untamed wilderness of scree and boulders, and finishes with joyful streams, spacious woods, and meadows. At the end of the day Champex is the first "real" Swiss village of the route, with attractive chalets and boxes of flowers at the windows. It's a popular resort town with several places to stay (all rather expensive, even the hostels, at around 30 CHF/night), a grocery store, several small shops and restaurants, banks, post bus links, a sizable lake, and a magnificent alpine garden. We bought groceries for dinner and the next day. My sister and I met a woman who owned the Gite D'etape, one of the cheaper places to stay due to being a couple of kilometers outside Champex – she kindly offered to drive us there. This hostel was very comfortable and cozy, although we were the only ones there (we were often the only guests, since we hiked the Route so early in the season).
JOUR 4: June 26
Champex (1466m) --> Le Chable (821m)
HIKED: 13km, 104m elevation gain, 749m elevation loss
SHORT NOTES: Hiked through Sembrancher. When we got to Le Chable we could not find a cheap place to stay, but we ran into an Australian lady named Christine who offered to let us stay at her place in her son's bedroom.
LONGER DESCRIPTION:A gentle downhill walk followed by a pleasant valley stroll makes a good cushion between two rather strenuous days. Although there are no passes to cross, and no big glacier-hung mountains close at hand, the path takes you into an everyday working Switzerland. The hike out of Champex is on dirt roads through pastureland. Whenever you find yourself thinking you are completely lost, another convenient sign will appear to reassure you that you are on the right path. The network of paths and roads brings you to Sembrancher (about 2.5 hours from Champex), a stone-walled village with an attractive little square. Leave the village by walking upvally on the road towards Le Chable. Le Chable is a sizable town with several (rather pricy) hotels, restaurants, shops, banks, and a postbus. We were unable to find lower priced accommodation (it was a Sunday, so most shops were closed and we couldn't find anyone to help us). We found a bakery that was open, and hung out there eating fresh bread and chocolate. We met a nice Australian lady who offered for us to stay the night on the floor of her son's bedroom, so we spent the rest of the evening sitting around her kitchen table enjoying tea and talking to our new friends, which was an unforgettable experience.
JOUR 5: June 27
Le Chable (821m) --> Cabane du Mont Fort (2457m)
HIKED: 9km, 1,636m elevation gain
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Clambin. The Cabane du Mont Fort, located high on a mountain hillside, was 32 CHF/bed.
LONGER DESCRIPTION:Before we began the hike up to the Cabane du Mont Fort, we stopped at the grocery store in Le Chable and bought a few days worth of groceries since we would be staying in mountain huts for the next two nights. The route from Le Chable to the Cabane du Mont Fort is a combination of narrow lanes, tracks, and footpaths – often steeply climbing, but always interesting. The whole day is spent hiking uphill (over 1600m up!), but it is only 9km. The trail begins by climbing out of La Chable, passing the quaint white chapel of Les Verneys, scattered timber buildings and chalets, sheep filled pastures, and even an up-scale restaurant perched on the hillside. The trail then crosses and recrosses a bulldozed ski area (it is impossible to escape all sign of the downhill ski industry, for Verbier and its surrounding hillsides offer winter paradise for the skier, and an abundance of lifts and cableways have effectively laced the mountains), but finally emerges onto a bisse path with view of the Grand Combin in the distance. The trail gently climbs to the Cabin du Mont Fort, which stands on a bluff at the junction of trails. The Cabin has an optional full meal service as well as showers, but these options cost more….
JOUR 6: June 28
Cabane du Mont Fort (2457m) --> Cabane de Prafleuri (2624m)
HIKED: 14km, 885m elevation gain, 740m elevation loss.
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Col Termin, Col de Louvie, and Col de Prafleuri. There was really cool ("chouette!") squishy mud in the basin before the Cabane de Prafleuri. The Cabane de Prafleuri was 26 CHF/bed.
LONGER DESCRIPTION: This stage is long and tiring, but full of variety and ever-changing views, and the overall elevation gains and losses are not as high as some of the other days. The day starts with a traverse along a hillside to the Col Termin. The Combin massif dominates the scene, and if you remain alert you might spot an occasional ibex. The trail then wraps along the eastern side of the hills, and climbs to the Col de Louvie. A barren landscape greets you in the north-east: the Grand Desert, a wilderness of screes, chaotic moraines, and dying glacier. Here, you are witness to the ceaseless toil of erosion. The way to the Col de Prafleuri is well marked by painted red and white flags, but there is no real path (which could pose a problem in poor visibility). My sister and I found some cool squishy ground and had some fun jumping around on it. The climb to the Col de Prafleuri is somewhat tiring on a steepish slope of scattered rocks. From the col, one is greeted with a view over a scarred and barren mountain bowl, with the small dot of the Cabin de Prafleuri faintly visible on the other side. The cabin was rather new when we stayed at it in 2005. It was a nice cabin, but in a rather barren location..
JOUR 7: June 29
Cabane de Prafleuri (2624m) --> Arolla (2006m) --> La Sage (1667m)
HIKED: 16km, 735m elevation gain, 1,353m elevation loss to Arolla
SHORT NOTES:After hiking to Arolla, we took a post bus (8.60 CHF) from Arolla to La Sage (10km). We stayed at Café Restaurant L'Ecureuil in La Sage for 24 CHF/bed.
LONGER DESCRIPTION: This stage of the walk leads from the rather gloomy, man-savaged Prafleuri glen to the delightful village of Arolla. Despite the fact that you have two passes to cross, this stage is not unduly taxing. The hike starts by climbing up towards the Col des Roux (only about 20 minutes from the Cabin de Prafleuri). From here you get a view of the 5-mile Lac des Dix below. The path descends and takes you past a stone-built Refuge de la Gentiane la Barma, which is permanently open. The hike continues upvalley through pastures alongside the Lac des Dix. At the southern end of the Lac des Dix is a metal suspension bridge that crosses high above the south-eastern inlet. The path now climbs towards the Col de Riedmatten. The final climb up the gully to the col can be aggravated by lose grit; an alternative is to break off to the right to three near-vertical ladders bolted to the rockface. We did not use the ladders, but I wished we had since they sounded exciting! From the Col, one gets a view of the Pigne d-Arolla, Mont Collon, Aiguille de la Tsa, Dent Blanche, and even the sharp blade of the Matterhorn's upper reaches far off. Looking back towards the west, if you know where to look, you can make out the tiny form of the Cabin des Dix perched above the glacier (this is a remote cabin a day's trip off the Walker's Haute Route, but has a spectacular position and might be worth an extra day). The path then descends the east side from the Col de Riedmatten towards Arolla (it is quite a descent, and the knees get tired, especially after about 16km of hiking). Arolla has accommodations, restaurants, shops, and a post bus link. We restocked on groceries in Arolla (enough for 2 days since we would be staying in a hut the next night), and then decided to take the post bus to La Sage, since the weather had been bad, and we liked the idea of eliminating the valley walk between Arolla and La Sage (this is a 10km hike that is mostly gently downhill through woodlands and small meadows and alp hamlets; although it is possible to connect this 10km hike with the hike to the Cabane de Moriy, this would be a grueling day!). La Sage has a hotel and doitoir, a restaurant, a shop, and a post bus link.
JOUR 8: June 30
La Sage (1667m) --> Cabane de Moiry (2825m)
HIKED: 10km, 1,617m elevation gain, 459m elevation loss
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Col du Tsate and Parking du Glacier. Cabane de Moiry had an amazing position overlooking the Glacier de Moiry. Beds were 18 CHF each (the friendly caretakers gave us a reduced rate from the typical 26 CHF/bed). Jenny splurged and bought the meal service (dinner and breakfast) for 28 CHF.
LONGER DESCRIPTION:This stage brings you through the lovely Val de Moiry, a tributary glen that feeds Anniviers. The trail leaves La Sage and climbs trails and roads up a hillside past a few alp hamlets. The trail at times disappears in the grassy meadows, but the general idea is to head for the rocky Col du Tsate. The east side of the ridge falls to the Val de Moiry, and eventually brings you to a track which swings to the roadhead Parking du Glacier. From here you can see the Cabin du Moiry perched on a rocky knoll overlooking the Moiry Glacier. Due to its spectacular position, the Cabin du Moiry is a popular goal for both dayhikers and overnighters alike. However, it is quite a climb to reach the cabin. The trail leads up the moraine and then switchbacks endlessly up the rocky slopes. The cabin is well worth the climb. Like all of the high mountain huts we stayed at, the Cabin du Moiry offers a full meal service. My sister decided to splurge and she enjoyed a wonderful dinner of soup, sausage, pasta, and vegetables. The caretakers of the hut were really nice, and one of them gave us each an edelweiss he picked from his tiny garden.
JOUR 9: July 1
Cabane du Moiry (2825m) --> Hotel Weisshorn ('Doitoir') (2400m)
HIKED: 20km, 1,092m elevation gain, 1,520m elevation loss
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Barrage de Moiry, Grimintz, Mission, and Hotel Weisshorn. Hotel Weisshorn was too expensive (110 CHF/bed), so we built a hut of our own out of some corrugated metal we found at a vacant mountain hut.
LONGER DESCRIPTION: The Walker's Haute Route as described in Kev Reynold's guide next takes one from the Cabin du Moiry, down into the forested trench of Val de Zinal, and up to the Col de Sorebois before making a steep descent into the mountaineering center of Zinal. An alternate route takes one to the Hotel Weisshorn, which lies to the north of Zinal. The Hotel Weisshorn is set in a magnificent position more than a thousand meters above the valley bed, with the Rhone valley to the north and the chain of the Bernese alps rising above that (Kev Reynolds describes a night spent at the Hotel Weisshorn as "counted among the highlights of the Chamonix to Zermatt walk"). So my sister and I decided to take the alternative route to the Hotel Weisshorn. This involved descending from the Cabin du Moiry to the Barrage de Moiry (either route has to make this descent). We then continued downward to Grimentz and Mission (quite tiring on the knees!), where we bought groceries. Then the upward hike began, through forested hillside on a well marked network of paths. When we finally reached the Hotel Weisshorn (which was indeed nice, but, to be honest, not as nice as I had envisioned), we were disappointed to discover that they did not have any doitoir (hostel) accommodation as we had thought; being too cheap to spend the 110 CHF each, we decided to hike onwards to see if we could find anything else. But there was nothing but deserted alp hamlets, and we were getting tired from our long day of hiking. We passed a deserted hamlet with some corrugated metal in its yard, and decided to build ourselves a shelter for the night. I enjoyed this night, since it was exciting and cheap, but my sister bemoaned the fact that we had not stayed at the Hotel Weisshorn.
JOUR/TAG 10: July 2
Hotel Weisshorn ('Doitoir') (2400m) --> Gruben (1822m)
HIKED: 11km, 500m elevation gain, 1,100m elevation loss
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Tshalet and Forcletta. Here we entered Swiss German territory (previously everyone had spoken French). We stayed at the Restaurant Waldesruh in Gruben for 17 CHF/bed.
LONGER DESCRIPTION: This stage took us over the Forcletta to our first Swiss-German town: Gruben. (Hikers who choose to go to Zinal instead of Hotel Weisshorn also hike over the Forcletta to Gruben). Compared to our previous day, this was a fairly easy day with minimal elevation gain and distance to travel. From the Hotel, a path takes you through the hanging valley on the east side of the Pointes de Nava, past some cowsheds at the alp of Tsahalet, and then up the rocky slopes to the Forcletta, a bare saddle in a ridge stubbed with individual peaklets. The way down to Gruben passes among alp buildings on farm roads. Gruben is a small German-speaking town - consisting of a neat cluster of houses, trim white chapel, and hotel above flood-level nestled at the floor of the Turtmanntal Valley. It was my favorite town we passed through on the Walker's Haute Route, "more like a Swiss village of the Golden Age of Mountaineering than any other." It offers a couple of choices of accommodation and a single grocery store (which stocks a surprising variety of goods), where we got to test our German ("Danke," "Bitte," etc.). We really enjoyed our night at the Restaurant Waldesruh (a children's home before it was converted into a restaurant with matratzenlager accommodation on the second floor), perhaps because the shower and bed felt so nice after a night sleeping on corrugated metal! I went outside with my macro lens and enjoyed an evening photographing the Swiss-German bugs and flowers!
TAG 11: July 3
Gruben (1822) --> St. Niklaus (1127m) --> Gasenried (1659m)
HIKED: 16km, 1,072m elevation gain, 1,767m elevation loss; 532m elevation gain to Gasenried on post bus.
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Augstbordpass and Jungen on our way to St. Niklaus; took a post bus (5.40 CHF) from St. Niklaus to Gasenried (4km). We stayed at Hotel Alpenrosli in Gasenried for 20CHF/bed (this was advertised as a matratzenlager (hostel), but we were given a regular hotel room instead).
LONGER DESCRIPTION: This stage was one of the finest of the whole Walker's Haute Route. The scenery is magnificent. It has a history too, for the Augustbordpass which links the Turtmanntal Valley with the Mattertal Valley was used from the Middle Ages onward as an important trading route between the Rhone valley and Italy. The Augustbordpass is also the final pass on the Chamonix to Zermatt route. Not as demanding as the total height gain and loss might suggest, the hike up to the pass leads through spacious woodland, over high pastures, and into a stony wilderness, but then opens to some of the loveliest views in all Switzerland. Continuing around the mountainside on the other side of the Augustbordpass, we were witness to stunning views of the Weisshorn rising out of the valley, and Nadelhorn, Lenzspitze, and Dom with the Ried glacier pouring into the shoe-horn trough it has carved above Grachen's green terrace. Then came the descent through the tiny hamlet of Jungen clinging to the desperately steep mountain slopes high above St Niklaus. Jungen is not an unreal tourist haunt, but is a living, working, everyday alp hamlet, one of the last such remote farming communities to be met on the Walker's Haute Route. From Jungen the path plunges once again into forest, dropping into the shadowed depths of the Matteral Valley past a series of tiny white shrines. The trail leads to the town of St. Nicolas, which has a railway station, several shops, accommodations, restaurants, and banks. By this time our knees were really feeling the nearly 1,800m of downhill. Since we decided to take the high route to Zermatt via the Europaweg (highly recommended), we needed to get to Gasenried. If you plan on taking the original valley route to Zermatt, the best bet is to stay in St. Nicolaus. We chose to take a bus to Gasenried, saving an uphill walk of about 2 hours in order to tackle the demanding first stage of the Europaweg the next day. The bus left from just outside the St. Nicolas railway station. There is only one hotel in Gasenried – Hotel Alpenrosli – but the pricing was moderate (cheaper than anything we found in St. Nicolas). There is also a grocery store and a restaurant in Gasenried. It was Sunday when we arrived in Gasenried, so the store was not open, so we waited until the next morning to restock for our final 2 days of hiking. Fresh bread and chocolate, a usual purchase!
TAG 12: July 4
Gasenried (1659) --> Europa Hut (2220m)
HIKED: 14km, 1,031m elevation gain, 470m elevation loss
SHORT NOTES: Passed through Grat and Galenberg. Beds at the Europa Hut were 25CHF/night. We had gotten soaked on our hike, so the warm fire and hot tea in the hut were great! Something you don't find back home in the North Cascades!
LONGER DESCRIPTION: Hikers can chose to finish the route by (1) hiking along a series of footpaths on the original valley route to Zermatt from St. Nicolas, or (2) taking the high route to Zermatt via the Europaweg, a challenging 31 km high route between Grachen and Zermatt which was completed in 1997. The Europa Hut – built in 1999 - is situated almost exactly halfway along the trail, so the finale of the Walker's Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt is now a two-day trek along this magnificent path. We decided to hike the Europaweg. From Gasenried, we climbed up towards Grat, a stunning viewpoint where you can gaze upon the chain of the Bernese Alps as well as the unmistakable Matterhorn upvalley. The Europaweg brings you across rocky areas and rough slopes. There are several places along the Europaweg that are potentially dangerous due to stonefall, but these areas are well marked and safeguarded with lengths of fixed ropes or tunnels. By the time we got to the Europa Hut it was pouring, but in no time we were warm and dry, sitting in front of a crackling fire drinking tea and playing cards.
UPDATE: I heard a rumor that in 2011 the Europaweg form the Europa Hut to Zermatt was closed due to slides. I am not sure if this has been re-opened yet, but it just is an example that conditions on the route can change from year-to-year—nothing is ever guaranteed in the mountains!
TAG 13: July 5
Europa Hut (2220m) --> Zermatt (1606m)
HIKED: 18km, 348m elevation gain, 962m elevation loss
SHORT NOTES: Jenny bought the breakfast service at the Europa Hut for 10 CHF. On our hike we passed through Taschalp, Tufteren, and Findeln. We stayed at the Matterhorn Hostel in Zermatt for 29 CHF/bed (this was probably the least comfortable hostel, despite being the most expensive!).
LONGER DESCRIPTION: The final stage of the Europaweg makes a worthy conclusion to the Walker's Haute Route. Visually exciting and fairly taxing because of its distance (though not as demanding as the previous day's walk), the route is lured on by the Matterhorn which acts as a beacon for most of the way. The height gain and loss are relatively minimal. The Matterhorn came into view less than an hour after leaving the Europa Hut. We were happy that finally the clouds were breaking, since the last couple of days had been quite dreary for us. We also had a few exciting moments when we doubted whether or not we would be able to push our packs through a collapsed section of tunnel, but after much pushing and grunting, we made it through. As we hiked to Zermatt, we passed more and more people and the weather continued to improve, offering fuller and fuller views of the Matterhorn. We hiked through the pretty little alp hamlets of Tufteren and Findeln, and then entered the bustling city of Zermatt. Zermatt has everything – accommodations, restaurants, tourist shops, banks, railway, etc. It was quite a shock to see so many people after being in small villages for the last two weeks. After walking around for awhile trying to find low-priced accommodation (everything is quite expensive in Zermatt), we decided to stay at the Matterhorn Hostel, which is a matratzenlager (ie. low-priced accommodation). It was a bit messier and less comfortable and more expensive (29 CHF/night) than the other hostels we had stayed at during our trip, but it was sufficient. We were able to store our stuff there while we climbed the Matterhorn the next couple of days. We spent the remainder of the day exploring Zermatt and treating ourselves to more Swiss chocolate, Swiss cookies, Swiss yogurt, and fresh bread (these had become our staples), and then went to bed prepared to wake up early the next morning to begin our trek up the Matterhorn.
TAG 14-16: July 6-8
Matterhorn trip report.
Charts and Tables
Being an engineer, I like data and charts and graphs…..
Below is a chart summarizing each day of our adventure (locations, lodgings, distances, elevation gains/losses, expenditures, etc.). Click to enlarge.
Below is a graph of the daily distance travelled. The total distance of the Walker's Haute Route is 190 km (118 miles). The average daily distance was 14.6 km (9.1 miles).
Below is a graph of the daily elevation gains and losses. Some days we gained or lost up to 1900 m (6250 ft)! Our average daily elevation gain was 950 m (3100ft), while our average daily elevation loss was 900 m (3000 ft). One needs to be in pretty good shape to really enjoy the Walker's Haute Route.
Below is a graph summarizing our daily expenses. We travelled cheaply, buying our food at grocery stores and staying at lower priced "doitoirs" and "matrazenlagers." Our total trip expenditure was 430 CHF (about $330 US in 2005) (this does not include plane flight and trains to and from the Route or any souvenirs). Our average daily expenditure during the hike was 33 CHF ($33 US in 2008 equivalents), spent on lodging (60%) and food (36%) and transportation (4%).
And finally, below is a graph showing a distance/elevation profile of the Walker's Haute Route, with the towns, hamlets, passes, and other places of interest along the way labelled.


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"Quick," writes Jessa Crispin on TheSmartSet.com. "How do you tell if a woman in a movie is supposed to be intelligent? First off, she'd probably be brunette, but past that. Glasses, yes. Little to no makeup. Her hair is probably in a ponytail. Clothes she probably bought at the Gap in a size too big. You know she's the smart one because she thinks about more important things than her appearance." We live in a world where "trendy" girls with "it" bags are often vapid, shallow beings bereft of a brain. The fashion magazine industry often makes things worse: "Elle talks to Ashlee Simpson. And writes down what she says. To be recorded for all time," Crispin notes. And "there is a huge disconnect between the fantasy world of Vogue — where women spend their days romping in fields wearing $1,500 sequined leggings — and reality." And yet there are women who are smart and care about fashion. Right? Right?
Hadley Freeman thinks so. She's the author of The Meaning Of Sunglasses. And, according to Crispin, she "namedrops Andrea Dworkin and poet Joseph Parisi as often as she does Anna Wintour. She's the one you want on the other side of the changing room... If you came out looking cheap, she would grab you by the shoulders, turn you around, and demand you change immediately. As she writes in the section labeled 'Cleavage, and the plumbing of depths,' 'Show me a woman with a good three inches of cleavage on display, and I'll show you a woman who, rightly or wrongly, has little faith in her powers of conversation.'"
Here's the thing: If you're smart enough to realize that fashion is a cultural construct rooted in sexist ideals and designed to divide women from their dollars, are you not allowed to admit that you sorta like a Gucci purse? If you have the intellectual capacity to understand that if all mankind wore some kind of uniform, like monks' robes, the globe would be alleviated of many problems — from sweatshops to bullying — should you feel guilty about liking the Jovovich-Hawk collection for Target?
"Freeman wrote a book for women who actually exist," Crispin writes. "Women who have to wait for buses in the middle of winter. Women who like to dance at parties, and do not want to have to sit in the corner because their feet are bleeding." Fashion is not just for Vogue and Karl Lagerfeld. It's self-expression, it's loving to get dressed, to get dressed up; it's realizing that your clothes can reflect your thoughts, your mood, your passions. And if someone's passionate about clothes, isn't labeling them shallow sort of superficial?
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ONEIDA >> Madison Cortland ARC and the Greater Oneida Chamber of Commerce are hosting a See You Reception that will feature a photography exhibit from ARC student photographers.
"This is a very popular event in Oneida," said Christine Sears, director of development for Madison Cortland ARC. "The photographs displayed are exceptional."
The exhibit features the work of ARC student photographers under the direction of volunteer Jim Cooke of Chittenango. Cooke is a professional photographer who has volunteered for several years teaching photography at Madison Cortland ARC. Students showing their work and donating the proceeds of the sale of their work are Michael Abbott, Jessica Bero, Shelly Carolla, Robert Cram, Colleen Hall, Kristina Jordan, Shane Kirley, Erica Ostwald, Brett Robinson, Bonita Tanney, and Dan Storms.
In addition to the exhibit, several professional photographers in the area have donated pieces of work to be sold to benefit the ARC: Amy Becker, Bob Havener, Wayne Horning, Nancy Ford, Drew Burdick, Neo Images, Eric Belusar, Jim Cooke, John Haeger, Rusty Aldrich, Joel Meltzer, Leo Maloney, and Andy Anguish.
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More accolades are coming in for Massachusetts based STEM educators. Today we are pleased to highlight the achievements of four women from Sharon who were recently honored with other colleagues from around New England at an event at Boston's Museum of Science in late March. Attendees included representatives from 19 Massachusetts and New Hampshire school districts.
The four from Sharon - Varla Smith, Trish Shea, Eileen Meisner, and Cindy Leary, were noted for their efforts within the Sharon school system to create and improve STEM curricula for their students, with help from the museum's Gateway Project.
Among those there to honor these educators was US Representative Je Kennedy III (D-MA), who serves as honorary chair of MA Governor Deval Patrick's STEM Advisory Council. IN his remarks, Kennedy noted the triple rate of increase in STEM jobs in the current economy, underscoring the importance of quality STEM education.
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Orpheus(Ὀρφεύς) The history of the extant productions of Greek literature begins with the Homeric poems. But it is evident that works so perfect in their kind are the end, and not the beginning, of a course of poetical development. This assumption is confirmed by innumerable traditions, which record the names of poets before the time of Homer, who employed their music for the civilisation of men and for the worship of different divinities. In accordance with the spirit of Greek mythology, the gods themselves stand at the head of this succession of poets, namely, Hermes, the inventor of the lyre, and Apollo, who received the invention from his brother, and became the divinity presiding over the whole art of music. With Apollo are associated, still in the spirit of the old mythology, a class of subordinate divinities -- the Muses. The earliest human cultivators of the art are represented as the immediate pupils, and even (what, in fact, merely means the same thing) the children of Apollo and the Muses. Their personal existence is as uncertain as that of other mythical personages, and for us they can only be considered as the representatives of certain periods and certain kinds of poetical development. Their names are no doubt all significant, although the etymology of some of them is very uncertain, while that of others, such as Musaeus, is at once evident. The chief of these names are Olen, Linus, Orpheus, Musaeus, Eumolpus, Pamphus, Thamyris, and Philammon. Of these names that of Orpheus is the most important, and at the same time the one involving the greatest difficulties. These difficulties arise from the scantiness of the early traditions respecting specting him, in tracing which we are rather impeded than aided by the many marvels which later writers connected with his story; and also from the very different religious positions which are assigned to him. On this last point it may be remarked in general that the earliest opinions respecting him seem to have invariably connected him with Apollo; while his name was afterwards adopted as the central point of one system of Dionysiac worship. One of the most essential points in such an inquiry as the present is, to observe the history of the traditions themselves. The name of Orpheus does not occur in the Homeric or Hesiodic poems ; but, during the lyric period, it had attained to great celebrity. Ibycus, who flourished about the middle of the sixth century B. C., mentions him as "the renowned Orpheus" (ὀνομακλυτὸν Ὄρφην, Ibyc. Fr. No. 22, Schneidewin, No. 9, Bergk, apud Priscian. vol. i. p. 283, Krehl). Pindar enumerates him among the Argonauts as the celebrated harp player, father of songs, and as sent forth by Apollo (Pyth. 4.315. s. 176): elsewhere he mentioned him as the son of Oeagrus (Schol. ad loc.). The historians Hellanicus and Pherecydes record his name, the former making him the ancestor both of Homer and of Hesiod (Fr. Nos. 5, 6, Müller, apud Procl. Vit. Hes. p. 141b., Vit. Hom. Ined.); the latter stating that it was not Orpheus, but Philammon, who was the bard of the Argonauts (Fr. 63, Müller, apud Schol. ad Apollon. 1.23), and this is also the account which Apollonius Rhodius followed. In the dramatic poets there are several references to Orpheus. Aeschylus alludes to the fable of his leading after him trees charmed by the sound of his lyre (Ag. 1612, 1613, Wellauer, 1629, 1630, Dind.) ; and there is an important statement preserved by Eratosthenes (100.24), who quotes the Bassarides of the same poet, that "Orpheus did not honour Dionysus, but believed the sun to be the greatest of the gods, whom also he called Apollo; and rising up in the night, he ascended before dawn to the mountain called Pangaeum, that he might see the sun first, at which Dionysus being enraged sent upon him the Bassaridae, as the poet Aeschylus says, who tore him in pieces, and scattered his limbs abroad; but the Muses collected them, and buried them at the place called Leibethra :" but the quotation itself shows the impossibility of determining termining how much of this account is to be considered as given by Aeschylus. Sophocles does not mention Orpheus, but he is repeatedly referred to by Euripides, in whom we find the first allusion to the connection of Orpheus with Dionysus and the inffrnal regions: he speaks of him as related to the Muses (Rhes. 944, 946); mentions the power of his song over rocks, trees, and wild beasts (Med. 543, Iph. in Aul. 1211, Bacch. 561, and a jocular allusion in Cyc. 646); refers to his charming the infernal powers (Alc. 357,); connects him with Bacchanalian orgies (Hippol.) 953; ascribes to him the origin of sacred mysteries (Rhes. 943), and places the scene of his activity among the forests of Olympus. (Bacch. 561.) He is mentioned once only, but in an important passage, by Aristophanes (Aristoph. Frogs 1032), who enumerates, as the oldest poets, Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod, and Homer, and makes Orpheus the teacher of religious initiations and of abstinence from murder:
Ὀρφεὺς μὲν γὰρ τελετάς θ᾽ ἡμῖνPassages exactly parallel to this are found in Plato (Apol. p. 41a., Protag. p.316, d.), who frequently refers to Orpheus, his followers, and his works. He calls him the son of Oeagrus (Sympos. p. 179d.), mentions him as a musician and inventor (Ion, p. 533c., Leg. iii. p. 677d.), refers to the miraculous power of his lyre (Protag. p. 315a.), and gives a singular version of the story of his descent into lades: the gods, he says, imposed upon the poet, by showing him only a phantasm of his lost wife, because he had not the courage to die, like Alcestis, hut contrived to enter Hades alive, and, as a further punishment for his cowardice, He met his death at the hands of women (Sympos. p. 179d.; comp. Polit. x. p. 620a.). This account is quite discordant with the notions of the early Greeks respecting the value of life, and even with the example quoted by Plato himself, as far as Admetus is concerned. Plato seems to have misunderstood the reason why Orpheus's "contriving to enter Hades alive," called down the anger of the gods, namely, as a presumptuous transgression of the limits assigned to the condition of mortal men: this point will have to be considered again. As the followers of Orpheus, Plato mentions both poets and religionists (Prot. p. 316d., Ion, p. 536b., Cratyl. p. 400c.), and in the passage last quoted, he tells us that the followers of Orpheus held the doctrine, that the soul is imprisoned in the body as a punishment for some previous sins. He makes several quotations from the writings ascribed to Orpheus, of which one, if not more, is from the Theogony (Cratyl. p. 402b., Phileb. p. 66c., Leg. ii. p. 669d.), and in one passage he speaks of collections of books, which went under the names of Orpheus and Musaeus, and contained rules for religious ceremonies. (Polit. ii. p. 364e.) The writings mentioned in the last passage were evidently regarded by Plato as spurious, but, from the other passages quoted, he seems to have believed at least in the existence of Orpheus and in the genuineness of his Theogony. Not so, however, Aristotle, who held that no such person as Orpheus ever existed, and that the works ascribed to him were forged by Cercops and Onomacritus. [ONOMACRITUS.] Proceeding to the mythographers, and the later poets, from Apollodorus downwards, we find the legends of Orpheus amplified by details, the whole. of which it is impossible here to enumerate; we give an outline of the most important of them. Orpheus, the son of Oeagrus and Calliope, lived in Thrace at the period of the Argonauts, whom he accompanied in their expedition. Presented with the lyre. by Apollo, and instructed by the Muses in its use, he enchanted with its music not only the wild beasts, but the trees and rocks upon Olympus, so that they moved from their places to follow the sound of his golden harp. The power of his music caused the Argonauts to seek his aid, which contributed materially to the success of their expedition: at the sound of his lyre the Argo glided down into the sea; the Argonauts tore themselves away from the pleasures of Lennos; the Symplegadae, or moving rocks, which threatened to crush the ship between them, were fixed in their places; and the Colchian dragon, which guarded the golden fleece, was lulled to sleep: other legends of the same kind may be read in the Argonautica, which bears the name of Orpheus. After his return from the Argonautic expedition he took up his abode in a cave in Thrace, and employed himself in the civilisation of its wild inhabitants. There is also a legend of his having visited Egypt. The legends Irspecting the loss and recovery of his wife, and his own death, are very various. His wife was a nymph named Agriope or Eurydice. In the older accotlnts the cause of her death is not referred to, but the legend followed in the well-known passages of Virgil and Ovid, which ascribes the death of Eurydice to the bite of a serpent, is no doubt of high antiquity, but the introduction of Aristaeus into the legend cannot be traced to any writer older than Virgil himself. (Diod. 4.25 ; Conon 45; Paus. 9.30.4; Hyg. Fab. 164.) He followed his lost wife into the abodes of Hades, where the charms of his lyre suspended the torments of the damned, and won back his wife from the most inexorable of all deities; but his prayer was only granted upon this condition, that he should not look back upon his restored wife, till they had arrived in the upper world: at the very moment when they were about to pass the fatal bounds, the anxiety of love overcame the poet; he looked round to see that Eurydice was following him; and he beheld her caught back into the infernal regions. The form of the myth, as told by Plato, has been given above. The later poets, forgetting the religious meaning of the legend, connected his death with the second loss of Eurydice, his grief for whom led him to treat with contempt the Thracian women, who in revenge tore him to pieces under the excitement of their Bacchanalian orgies. Other causes are assigned for the fury of the Thracian Maenads ; but the most ancient form of the legend seems to be that already mentioned as quoted by Eratosthenes from Aeschylus. The variation, by which Aphrodite is made the instigator of his death, from motives of jealousy, is of course merely a fancy of some late poet (Conon,45). Another form of the legend, which deserves much more attention, is that which was embodied in an inscription upon what was said to be the tomb, in which the bones of Orpheus were buried, at Dium near Pydna, in Macedonia, which ascribed his death to the thunderbolts of Zeus :--
κατέδειξε φόνου τ᾽ ἀπέχεσθαι.
Θρήϊκα χρυσολύρην τῇδ᾽ Ὀρφέα Μοῦσαι ἔθαφαν,(Diog. Laert. Prooem. 5; Paus. 9.30.5 ; Anth. Graec. Epig. Inc. No. 483; Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 253.) After his death, according to the more common form of the legend, the Muses collected the fragments of his body, and buried them at Leibethra at the foot of Olympus, where the nightingale sang sweetly over his grave. The subsequent transference of his bones to Dium is evidently a local legend. (Paus. l.c.) His head was thrown upon the Hebrus, down which it rolled to the sea, and was borne across to Lesbos, where the grave in which it was interred was shown at Antissa. His lyre was also said to have been carried to Lesbos; and both traditions are simply poetical expressions of the historical fact that Lesbos was the first great seat of the music of the lyre: indeed Antissa itself was the birth-place of Terpander, the earliest historical musician. (Phanocles, ap. Stob. Tit. lxii. p. 399). The astronomers taught that the lyre of Orpheus was placed by Zeus anlong the stars, at the intercession of Apollo and the Muses (Eratosth. 24; Hygin. Astr. 2.7; Manil. Astron. 1.324). In these legends there are some points which require but little explanation. The invention of music, in connection with the services of Apollo and the Muses, its first great application to the worship of the gods, which Orpheus is therefore said to have introduced, its power over the passions, and the importance which the Greeks attached to the knowledge of it, as intimately allied with the very existence of all social order,--are probably the chief elementary ideas of the whole legend. But then comes in one of the dark features of the Greek religion, in which the gods envy the advancement of man in knowledge and civilisation, and severely punish any one who transgresses the bounds assigned to humanity, as may be seen in the legend of Prometheus, and in the sudden death, or blindness, or other calamities of the early poets and musicians. In a later age, the conflict was no longer viewed as between the gods and man, but between the worshippers of different divinities; and especially between Apollo, the symbol of pure intellect, and Dionysus, the deity of the senses: hence Orpheus, the servant of Apollo, falls a victim to the jealousy of Dionysus, and the fury of his worshippers. There are, however, other points in the legend which are of the utmost difficulty, and which would require far more discussion than can be entered upon here. For these matters the reader is referred to Lobeck's Aglaophamus, Müller's Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie, and Klausen's article in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopädie. Concerning the localities of the legend, see Miller's Literature of Ancient Greece, p. 26, and Klausen. The works of art representing Orpheus are enumerated by Klausen.
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Because the Jewish community is extremely diverse, many Jews are bilingual. English, Yiddish, German, Polish, Ivrit (modern Hebrew), and Hungarian are important languages. Occupationally, Australia's Jews are concentrated heavily in the clothing and manufacturing sectors of the economy. Most are either self-employed or are employers running their own businesses. Medicine, law, and engineering are also important occupations.
A number of phenomena characterize the Australian Jewish community and distinguish it from most other English-speaking Jewish communities. These include a high rate of enrollment in Jewish day schools (Most of all primary school pupils and over half of all high school pupils) and a low rate of intermarriage with non-Jews. Melbourne has the largest Jewish day school in the world. There are several Jewish newspapers and periodicals available. Each week Australia's ethnic radio stations feature several hours of programming of Jewish interest in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. In the major cities, there are butchers, bakers, and restaurants that prepare kosher (traditional, acceptable) foods.
The Australian Jewish community maintains several Jewish museums, including two devoted to the commemoration of the Holocaust. Melbourne has a Jewish (often Yiddish) theater. Thousands of people of all ages participate in Maccabi athletic events which culminate in a major carnival each year.
Several important issues face the Jewish community in Australia. One is the tension between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox sections of the community. This tension, at times, develops into open hostility. The status of religious divorce laws is also a source of conflict within the community. Jewish women can currently be denied religious divorce by their husbands, effectively isolating them from the community if they remarry. Anti-Semitism (discrimination against Jews) is not a serious problem in Australia's multi-cultural society, but the government closely monitors various hate-groups.
For religious Jews, God is the Supreme Being, the Creator of the universe, and the ultimate Judge of human affairs. Beyond this, the religious beliefs of the Jewish communities vary greatly. Orthodox Jews generally follow the traditional religious beliefs and practices found in the Jewish literature that interprets Scripture regarding ethical, religious, civil, and criminal matters. Reform Jews do not believe that the Jewish Law is divinely revealed. They are not restricted to kosher foods. They neither wear the skull cap (yarmulke) when praying nor use Hebrew in prayer. All religious Jews believe in the coming of a Messianic Age, but only the Orthodox Jews look for a personal Messiah.
In Australia, there are dozens of synagogues affiliated with all major religious movements within Judaism, from Reform to ultra-Orthodox. Most of Australia's Jews are Orthodox and many are liberal, with a tendency for the liberal Jews to be from central European backgrounds. Few are non-religious.
The Jews have a wonderful understanding of their connection with the Abrahamic covenant. However, they also have a history of rejecting Jesus Christ as Messiah, the one who has fulfilled that covenant. Pray that as the Gospel is shared, it will not be viewed as anti-Semitic, but rather as the fulfillment of what God promised humanity through Abraham centuries ago.
* Ask the Lord of the harvest to send forth loving Christians to work among the Australian Jewish communities.
* Ask the Holy Spirit to grant wisdom and favor to the missions agencies that are focusing on the Australian Jews.
* Pray that the Jewish people will understand that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah.
* Ask the Lord to soften the hearts of the Jews towards Christians so that they might hear and receive the message of salvation.
* Pray that God will grant Jewish believers favor as they share their faith in Christ with their own people.
* Pray that strong local churches will be raised up among the Australian Jews.


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Baez, Almora back Lester as Cubs rout Harvey, Mets 17-5 (Sep 13, 2017)
CHICAGO (AP) Albert Almora Jr. spent most of the night watching from the dugout. Once he entered the game, he sure did make an impact.
Almora homered and drove in a career-high six runs after coming off the bench in the seventh inning, and the Chicago Cubs routed the New York Mets 17-5 on Wednesday.
Javier Baez also went deep and had four hits for the Cubs, who matched a season high for runs after pouring on 12 over their final three at-bats. They have outscored the Mets 25-8 the past two games.
It's just what the NL Central leaders needed after managing only three runs in a weekend sweep by Milwaukee that tightened the division race. Chicago remained 2 1/2 games ahead of the Brewers and moved three up on St. Louis.
''As a competitor, this is what we want to be in,'' Almora said. ''Last year, I'm not complaining. ... But every game means something. I feel like from now until the end of the season it's a playoff game every game.''
It sure hasn't been easy for the Cubs coming off a 103-win season that saw them win the division by 17 1/2 games and capture their first World Series crown since 1908. They looked as though they were just about ready to put away the Central race before Milwaukee came to town.
For much of the night, this wasn't exactly an easy game. But by the end, the score sure was lopsided.
Shaky early on, Jon Lester (11-7) regrouped to throw six solid innings and win his third straight start. The left-hander gave up two runs and six hits.
Mets starter Matt Harvey (5-5) lasted just 3 1/3 innings in his third start back from a right shoulder injury. He allowed five runs and seven hits.
''It's hard to take any positives out of the last two years for me,'' he said. ''It's extremely frustrating. It's hard going out there and not doing what I can to help this team win. All in all, it's really frustrating. That's all you can say about tonight.''
Kris Bryant had three hits and scored four runs for Chicago. Ben Zobrist also scored four times.
Willson Contreras had two hits and three RBIs for the Cubs, who took a 6-2 lead into the seventh before things really got out of hand.
Baez led off with a homer . Almora, who entered in the top half, added a three-run drive to make it 10-2 and hit a bases-loaded triple during a seven-run eighth.
Jose Reyes homered leading off the game for New York, and Dominic Smith had a two-run drive in the eighth. But the Mets clinched their first losing record since 2014 after making the playoffs the past two years.
Almora became the first Cubs player to drive in six runs during a game he did not start since Mandy Brooks did it at Philadelphia on Aug. 25, 1925.
It was also the second six-RBI game by a Cubs player this season. Contreras drove in six against Arizona on Aug. 3.
Mets: RHP Noah Syndergaard played catch before the game for the second straight day. Syndergaard has been out since May 1 due to a torn right lat muscle. ... RHP Erik Goeddel was prescribed medication for the dizziness and blurred vision he has been experiencing. He was to resume limited baseball activities in New York on Wednesday. ... INF T.J. Rivera is scheduled for Tommy John surgery Thursday on his right elbow. Dr. James Andrews will perform the operation.
Cubs: RHP Jake Arrieta (right hamstring) will throw a simulated game before he returns, though that session has not been scheduled. The Cubs have no timetable for his return. ... RHP Koji Uehara (knee) threw a simulated game. He has not pitched since Sept. 2.
RHP Jen-Ho Tseng debuts Thursday for Chicago, with the Cubs sending LHP Mike Montgomery back to the bullpen because they need relief help. RHP Seth Lugo (6-4, 4.64 ERA) starts for the Mets. Tseng was Chicago's minor league pitcher of the year, going a combined 13-4 with a 2.54 ERA in 24 starts for Double-A Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa. ''There's a lot to like about this guy,'' manager Joe Maddon said. ''We'll give it a roll (Thursday) night. Sometimes, you catch lightning in a bottle and you learn some things, too. We'll play him (Thursday) night, see where it takes us and then try to figure out the next step.''
With Tseng getting called up, the Cubs designated RHP Pierce Johnson for assignment.
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man who was allegedly throwing rocks at him about 4 miles from a border crossing in California, officials said.
The man was shot early Tuesday in a mountainous region east of the Otay Mesa crossing, Lt. Glenn Giannantonio said.
Police said two agents were tracking two men suspected of entering the United States illegally when one of them came across a third man, U-T San Diego reported. The third man ran away and one of the agents chased after him.
At one point the man allegedly began throwing rocks, striking the agent, despite repeated requests to stop, Giannantonio said.
A rock hit the agent in the head, the lieutenant said.
"Fearing that another rock strike to the head could kill or incapacitate him, the agent fired his duty pistol at least twice at the man, striking him," Giannantonio said.
The man died at the scene.
The agent, whose name wasn't reported, had minor injuries and was treated and released from a hospital. He was placed on administrative leave.


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Anyway, a bit of fruitless fiddling around later and it still wouldn't bite. So this was followed up by some hapless fiddling around – the odd default reset here and there – and lo, I have a brick in the shape of a Vaio Duo. Oops, sorry Sony. So the next one arrived and the BIOS on this model was the same. In the interim, Sony's site had uploaded another "sustaining" update, so I tried again and again, no luck with either. Oh well. Just for the record, that accelerometer borders on unbearable at the best of times. Apparently it relies on a Microsoft driver, and hopefully there's a fix coming in some form or another.
Speedy system tweak shortcuts courtesy of the Vaio Control Centre
The Vaio Duo features NFC, which I had no use for, and there's GPS too if you need it. Sony's Vaio Control Centre app provides speedy access to a range of commonly used features, and having scoured the keyboard for dedicated controls to alter the Duo's backlighting, I eventually found the functions here. Handy power and performance modes can be switched over too, without trawling through the Windows options. In balanced/standard mode, the Vaio Duo 11 clocked up a PCMark 7 score of 4731 with the best performance settings notching this up to 4893.
Incidentally, start-up is typical of a Windows 8 machine with an SSD, namely, pretty darned quick – about six second to the login screen. Sony doesn't give a battery life figure but you'd need to some pretty frugal power adjustments to manage five hours out of it and HD video will playback will deliver only half that. There's the VGP-BPSC31 sheet battery option too, that clips on the base which Sony claims doubles the duration and will set you back around £119.
At least deckchairs allow for angle adjustment, the Vaio Duo has just one upright position
And so to bed. A true test of a laptop is surely lazing around watching a movie. OK, so we've got Dolby Home Theater V4 here with presets for music, movies and gaming which don't sound too bad actually. Not exactly booming, but spacious and not too harsh. And we've got that bright, crisp 1920 x 1080-pixel screen – what's not to like?
Well, what do you do when you recline? You change the screen angle to avoid image shading, right? Not on this baby as the viewing angle is fixed. It's absurd and those little feet don't do enough to compensate either, so you either need to prop it up at the back or use it in tablet mode with a stand. Is this a ruse to keep the business traveller glued to e-mail rather than unwinding with some light entertainment? What about on a plane or train? Tablet mode doesn't wash for serious work.
All the right connections, but a fair share of quirks too
The Reg Verdict
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Miyamoto Takes A Shot At Vita
Nintendo's creative visionary says that the powerful Sony handheld isn't "a very strong product."
While Miyamoto isn't known weighing in on his competitors, he definitely seems to have a low opinion of the Vita in a new interview with EDGE magazine.
When asked his opinion of the Vita, he commented, "It's obviously a very high-spec machine and you can do lots of things with it, but I don't really see the combination of software and hardware that really makes a very strong product."
He added, "But I can't really say."
Mr. Miyamoto, I think you just did.
However, he also acknowledged Nintendo's own mistakes in the launch of its 3DS handheld. Miyamoto said, "When we launched the 3DS hardware we didn't have Super Mario 3D Land, we didn't have Mario Kart 7, we didn't have Kid Icarus: Uprising. We were striving to have all of these ready for the launch, but we weren't able to deliver them at that time."
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'Rajasthan must act against Nandy for casteist comments'
BSP leader Mayawati Saturday demanded that the Rajasthan government take strong action against social scientist Ashis Nandy for his comments linking OBCs, the SCs and the STs to corruption and that he be told to leave the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Talking to mediapersons here, Mayawati said Nandy's comments were "wrong, baseless and unfortunate" and reflected casteist mindset.
They were made as part of a thought-out conspiracy to defame people from these communities, said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo.
"Hence, the Rajasthan government should take strong action against him without delay," Mayawati said.
She said the organisers should also immediately "throw out" Nandy from the festival for his "casteist remarks".
Asked if the BSP will raise the issue in the budget session of parliament, she said the party will take into account steps taken by the Rajasthan government, the organisers and the "kind of apology" tendered by Nandy.
Nandy stirred up a row at Jaipur Literature Festival Saturday, saying most of the corrupt in the country were people from the other backwards classes (OBC), the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and the Scheduled Tribes (STs).
"It will be an undignified, even vulgar statement. But it is a fact that most of the corrupt come from the OBC, the Scheduled Castes and now increasingly the STs and as long as it is the case, the Indian republic will survive," he said at a session titled "Republic of Ideas".
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Grading teachers: Accountability needed
Year after year, San Diego's students are failing to learn and San Diego's teachers are not being held accountable.
The political issue around No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and waivers was clearly stated in the U-T's Dec. 27 editorial, "Obama to California: Do better on schools." The president said, "most teachers are solid or better, but bad teachers – perhaps 10 percent of those now on the job – must go."
Now what do we do? Can we evaluate teachers – all teachers – to measure their effectiveness in helping all students achieve?
To some extent we already evaluate teachers based on student outcomes through end of semester exams, Advanced Placement exams, International Baccalaureate exams, etc. As well, teachers are evaluated by outside educational organizations such as College Board and IBO International that look at the effectiveness of teacher instruction based on the students' mastery of a set of defined subject area standards.
When looking at student learning, the conventional wisdom is that an effective teacher is the central factor in student learning. So why are the most influential organizations in this state – the California Teachers Association (CTA) and California Federation of Teachers (CFT) – refusing to commit to evaluate teachers based on the students' mastery of clearly identified outcomes?
After all, is teaching students to master the state's educational guidelines not the responsibility of the teachers?
The CTA and CFT claim there is no way to measure the effectiveness of instruction because the individual needs of the students are too diverse. Not true. With computer adaptive assessment (such as the new Smarter Balance Assessment which will soon replace the California Standardized Testing) and peer evaluation models, other states have successfully created a teacher evaluation system where a percentage of the teachers' performance is based on their students' achievement.
Currently the National Education Association is discussing implementing "a bar exam" for teachers entering the profession. Are NEA officials now acknowledging that teaching is a profession and that professionals are evaluated based on their ability to perform at the level necessary to be a member of the profession? Finally it is becoming clear that top-level policymakers understand that teachers need to be held accountable for educating all children.
So what should we do, now that the No Child Left Behind waiver has not been granted to California? Do we maintain the status quo or do we demand that school districts do more to educate all children?
I submit that we need to change the paradigm by asking for the same accountability for teacher performance that is expected in any other profession. Further, that we not allow the current system to keep ineffective teachers and administrators in our schools. We hold children as young as five years of age accountable by assessing them, reporting out grades, and deciding whether to promote or retain them based on performance. Yet we have given the CTA and CFT enough power to control, and ultimately defeat, our waiver application.
Why have we not organized as concerned parents and community members to ensure that the bar is raised in the teaching profession? Teaching and learning must be elevated to a standard that ensures that all students have the same access to great teachers and, thus, to learning.
We must demand that school districts in "Program Improvement" – those that have not met adequate yearly progress in student achievement in English and math – implement the federal guidelines under NCLB. Corrective action under the guidelines includes changing staff, implementing more directed interventions for low performing students and providing parents with alternative school choices, to name a few. San Diego Unified is entering year three of "Program Improvement" status with half of its students not proficient in math and English. With or without NCLB, it is our moral imperative to effect change.
We know we need to change. It is not a matter of should we change, it is a matter of how soon can we change. Our children do not have time to wait for teachers to be held accountable. It is our responsibility as parents and citizens to ensure that our students have quality teachers in every classroom in order to create the capacity for our children to compete on the global stage
Teaching and learning must be elevated to a standard that ensures that all students have the same access to great teachers, and thus, to learning.


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You don't need any experience as we can teach you everything! If you are willing to learn and be proud to work with us, we can show you exactly what it takes to become a vital team member in any kitchen.
You'll join a close-knit team, so you'll get the family feel from day one. You'll take on a full-time role in the kitchen under the supervision of passionate chefs alongside your training. Working as a team to serve up great food in a fun, friendly atmosphere will help you develop the skills necessary to prepare and cook food quickly and efficiently.
Not only do you gain a Level 2 Hospitality Food Production and Cooking Apprenticeship, you will be able to support the running of our kitchens, creating some amazing moments making sure that quality never slips for our guests!
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- Keep a safe and hygienic working environment
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- Bring a huge appetite for learning
- Bring energy and enjoyment
- Be part of great team moments
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- Feedback sessions to discuss progress
- Obtain Functional Skills in English and maths
- 30 hours paid work every week
And it doesn't end there! Upon completing your apprenticeship, you can continue onto further apprenticeships or follow other routes to progress your career through our career pathways. Every moment is a chance to prove what you can do, and in a business as big as ours, there is always room to move around when you fancy!
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CNBC notes the apparent cause of death of the recently popular BP skeptic, and founder of oil company Simmons & Co., was a heart attack. A conflicting report according to WLBZ cites the source of death as drowning.
NORTH HAVEN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The Knox County Sheriff's Department says Matthew Simmons, the founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, drowned at his house on North Haven late Sunday night.
Simmons was a leading investment banker for the energy industry and had recently retired to work full time on the new Ocean Energy Institute.
He was a leading proponent of offshore wind power and had started raising money to develop and build offshore turbines.
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On December 31st I decided to conduct a little experiment with my diet to cut out as much sugar as I could. I still have fresh fruit but no longer have fruit juice, dried fruit and, as much as possible, anything with added sugar (which is hidden in everything!).
Fuelled by desperation as my baby doesn't sleep well and I'm perpetually tired, I started to wonder if the sugary drinks and snacks I was increasingly reaching for was part of his sleep problem. As I'm breast-feeding, he eats what I eat after all and I was willing to try anything to get a bit more shut-eye.
A secondary reason for reducing sugar is that I have rosacea on my cheeks, which means I look quite rosy and spotty. As karma for being a smug clear-skinned teenager, this came on in my late twenties and I've noticed that my diet definitely affects it and I wanted to see just how much by.
I thought I ate relatively healthily. I don't have caffeine or fizzy drinks but I did drink a lot of fruit juice and Nesquik, and cakes were an everyday staple of my diet. As a treat my husband would bring me sugar mice from the old-fashioned sweet shop on his way back from work. When I first reduced the sugar in my diet I knew I would feel it and I had some pretty bad headaches & much grumpiness in the first week. To add insult to injury my family kept forgetting and offered me things I was trying to avoid. But more than a month into my experiment and since the sugar withdrawal lessened, I can see some real benefits.
A change that has become more and more noticeable over my low sugar month, is my skin. The redness of my cheeks has greatly reduced and the texture of my cheeks is much smoother. It has made a bigger improvement than anything I've tried over the last five years, including antibiotic creams and laser treatment. I would say it looks about 80% better and almost unnoticeable with make-up.
Another really big difference and one that I wasn't expecting, is how much better I feel in general. My energy levels are higher and more constant and mentally I feel more level and alert. I've also lost a few pounds in weight.
Despite all the benefits I do have some sadness about the sweet treats I'll be missing, but I am definitely extending this experiment to the longer term.
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