The Bergtagung concluded yesterday in a frenzy of cleaning. After a good three hour walk up a random mountain, where five of us ate dried meat, enjoyed the view into the valley and sat on a bench like proper elderly mountain people, we headed back to the village to give the Bergtagung building a good scrubbing. I think people still managed to enjoy themselves even though everyone was horribly tired at this point.

Cleaning everything up took half an hour longer than I expected, but in the end we did manage to restore everything to its old state and get our butts into the cars heading for Zürich. On the way up, people had escaped a rainy, cold Zürich to end up above the fog in the sunny mountains. On the way down, we drove into a marvellous sunset above Switzerland’s busiest city.

Thank you, everyone, for a fantastic event! Thanks to the speakers who prepared and gave their talks. And thanks in particular to the “volunteers” who stayed until the end and therefore had the honor to do most of the cleaning. I hope you’re not too traumatized

I hope to see you all again next year, and who knows, perhaps we’ll manage to rent that other house, the charming little wooden one that I wanted in the first place but that seems to be illegal to rent at the moment due to fire regulations