2025-08-02 Üetliberg
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Today the weather was cloudy and the rain was drizzling for hours. We
went for a walk up the Üetliberg. We picked a safe trail with official
signage.

This small mountain is our local mountain here in Zürich and there’s a
train that goes almost all the way to the top. These days it doesn’t
run because there are maintenance works taking apart the tracks. We
thought it’d be calm up there. We were wrong. There are buses running.
There was a wedding at the posh hotel and restaurant at the top.

When going for a walk on the Üetliberg in Zürich, do take a look from
the top (Uto Kulm) and look over the lake towards the Alps. But today
we learned: If you want to eat something, don't eat at the posh place
up there, walk 20 min and stop at Jurablick, looking north towards
the Jura mountains. We ate a shepherd’s pie, a caponata, some chestnut
cake and some poppy seed cake. Tasty! And everybody was super nice.

Echte Tollkirsche. Atropa belladonna.

Too bad the Einbeere (Paris quadrifolia) was out of focus. The fruit
looks uncanningly similar, but it grows on a single stalk atop four
leaves at right angles to each other.

Stechender Hohlzahn (Artengruppe). Galeopsis tetrahit agg. Claudia
and I, slightly wet, on the way up. A broad forest road in the forest
with dramatic clouds above. Looking out over the city lying below the
grey clouds. Grosse Klette. Arctium lappa. Gewöhnlicher Wasserdost.
Eupatorium cannabinum. Another viewpoint showingn the northern end of
the lake reaching into Zürich. Looking along the Albis, the ridge
going south. On the left, the long banana-shaped lake of Zürich points
south.

The Alps remained hidden by the clouds.

The weather cleared up and we could see the Reppisch valley, and off
to the right, the Knonaueramt. Wald Engelwurz. Angelica sylvestris.
Behaarte Karde. Dipsacus pilosus. Jakobs-Greiskraut. Jacobaea
vulgaris.

Plant identification via the app Flora Incognita.

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