Course d’Escalade 2011
The women’s run (30 to 43y): 2600 participants..!
http://photo.genevainformation.ch/Events/Course-de-lEscalade-2011/20397962_hc8Jg7#1614427198_hKq5hMH
Mines de Sel, Bex
Bex is in the swiss canton of Valais, in the Rhône valley. The salt mines have been operational for more than 400 years, evolving over time. It’s very impressive to see what men did with hammer and chisel under ground, advancing 5m per month into the depth of the mountain.
After a short walk into the mountain a little train takes us further inside. It’s nothing for claustrophobic personalities, definitely not. I felt a bit uneasy in the beginning, to be honest. If you know the London subway lines, the old ones where the walls are really close to the train: It’s just like that. Only smaller.
The salt can only be sold in the canton of Vaud. If you don’t know what a canton is: It’s like a state, only smaller, coming to county size rather than state size 
What I did not know was that they get the salt out in water. They drill holes into the mountain, hundreds of meters deep.
Then water gets pressurized in, through a tube with an inner and an outer circuit. The inner circuit delivers fresh water into the rocks, the outer circuit brings it back up again. If the water has dissolved enough salt and comes to 30% of salt in water, it is delivered to the processing unit outside the mountain. If not, it takes another round down into the mountain.
Yeah, smartphones. Everywhere
First pics with the new phone
Yes I know, MP is not everything and the small lens can’t compare to a real light tunnel but still! Here are the first pictures I took with the N8 
All Fribourg, and as you can see by the trash bags standing around: Taken on trash day, Tuesday or Friday.
