“We could go to the Alp together,” suggested Herbert Rüf to his wife Barbara in the spring of 1994. An Alp is a high-Alpine pasture dairy. Barbara agreed and so they packed up their three children in June and set off into the mountains.
The hour-long hike to the Alpe Obere Alpine pasture begins behind the “Rossstelle” mountain station of the Mellaubahn cable car. The narrow path, fringed by waist-high grasses and summer flowers, winds leisurely up the mountain. After twenty minutes, the road bends and suddenly you enter a small paradise: a quiet, flower-strewn plateau in the Alpe Kanis mountain pasture, which is framed and protected by the steep slopes of the Klippern, Gungern, Wannenkopf and Bettlerkopf mountains. Afterwards, the trail ascends gently towards the Wurzachalpe mountain pasture. Along the way, there is always plenty for the kids to discover: cows, horses and sheep in the Alpine meadows, butterflies fluttering about, busy bumblebees and giant ants in the green thickets along the way.