Rätikon Tour 3xPIP

we continue through the cultivated Alps, past idyllic waterholes and moorland with Scheuchzer woolgrass.

Who has scattered cotton balls here? No one, it is Scheuchzer's cotton grass, which delights us on mountain hikes, it is also called alpine cotton grass. It grows in boggy areas and on lakeshores in the Alps. Woolgrass indicates to hikers swampy places, which it is better to avoid.
In the past, cotton grass was used in medicine against diarrhea and for strengthening. The spike tufts were also used as material for candle wicks, the tufts were also used in many alpine huts as stuffing material for pillows.
The cotton grass also a symbol of the becoming and passing of waters in the mountains.

this is how our path looks in the rearview mirror ;-) and when we look towards the valley we see our next overnight stop in Brand