Late Afternoon Walk along Lake Zug to Cham Alpenblick

Sunday November 26, 2023 -- With so much overcast weather this month, we didn't have as many opportunities to go hiking as we wished. 

On this November Sunday, the clouds dissipated somewhat in the late afternoon and afforded us a bit of sunshine, so we made a quick decision to do a short walk along the lakeshore of Lake Zug, easily accessible from our home. Many years ago we did this walk almost weekly, just to get some fresh air after work, but hadn't walked here for a long time.

It's about 3½ kilometers to walk from our house to Cham where we catch an urban train back, and another half kilometer or more back home, so a nice 4-km afternoon walk. As we only started at 3:30 p.m., the sun went down before we finished the walk, and it got cold, so that is why we didn't continue on to the main train station in Cham.

We started out at about 3:30 p.m. as the clouds just started clearing to show a bit of blue sky. 

Mount Rigi

Lakeshore walk to Cham. This is looking south across Lake Zug.

This is a bird sanctuary

This is where the Steinhausen Dorfbach flows into Lake Zug

I was absolutely awestruck at how suddenly the Alps appeared to be so close!

View of the Alps from the urban train back towards home. 

Total about 3½ kilometers to the Alpenblick train station and another almost 700 meters back home from Schutzengel, means a 4-km hike this late afternon (about an hour of walking)