When we woke up the next morning, it wasn't raining anymore but we were still basically in a cloud, which made for very moody lighting. Pretty cool but also sooo cold, although the night was a bit warmer than the previous one, which had clear skies, a lot of wind and ~0°C 🤣 we packed up all our soaking wet gear and made our way back to the road, then down the pass. I was wearing all my layers and still absolutely freezing, but told myself i just had to make it to andermatt where we planned to get a coffee and warm up for a minute. We flew down the pass and made it to the nice little cafe that we'd also been to last year already! So nice. After that, we went up the oberalppass, another 600m of uphill but over a nice steady gradient and my legs were feeling really fresh after a day off, which was a nice surprise. Felt pretty psyched at the top! By the time we got there it had started raining again and the following descent was COLD. We were planning to go to a campsite in graubünden with good climbing nearby, but man was it not the day to have a day with 1500m more descent than ascent 🤣 the descent from the pass was initially steep but soon evened out and it felt absolutely endless, which is amazing but I've also never been so cold in my life (okay I have, maybe once or twice, but not often) - I was shivering so hard my whole bike was shaking lol. But we gradually got down and as we made it to lower elevation, the air started to warm up and it even stopped raining at some point. We stopped for lunch in a dry sheltered spot and had some bread we bought in the cafe that morning and it was soooo good lol. From there, we had some pretty uneventful fast miles on a big road followed by a small climb out of the Rhine gorge and a tiny road along the rim with AMAZING views. Highlight of the day! After that we started to get closer to chur, meaning more civilisation and less interesting roads, it started raining again and by the time we were 10 miles from the campsite we were both pretty ready to be done. But we made it! Another 80 mile day, no meltdowns this time and I was really proud to have made it through with seriously challenging conditions. Had the best hot shower ever (like always after days like this) and got to eat dinner in an actual room because the campsite had a kitchen thingy, which was quite the treat. And the night was incredibly warm after two nights at 2,000m 🤣
