Our final cruise down a Swiss mountain was relaxed as we savored the experience of breathtaking vistas, speed, turns and tired legs. Charles, Markham, Jim and I followed the edge of the lake below Glaubenbuelen, then another lake's edge, lingering to absorb our final hours on a bike in Switzerland. We reached Lake Lucerne at 1 PM and turned onto a winding, one-lane road pressed hard into the sheer rock wall that formed the side of the lake. The lake lay 12' below the road.
Someone spotted a rope swing hung from a tree rooted into the rock cliff. We stopped to have a look. A steel ladder was pitoned into the cliff about 80' away, extending from the road down into the water. We had an hour to ride the final 2 km to the ferry.
"I'm doing it!" announced Jim. He stripped down to his cycling shorts, jumped off the edge and surfaced in the lake below. "Come on! It's fantastic!" he shouted up. Todd R., Rick and Rich soon arrived, and one by one we stripped and joined Jim in a terrific splash, a fitting exclamation point to our final day of the Swiss Challenge.
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