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Saturday, July 31, 1982 The thunderstorm stayed between the mountains all night. It is mid summer but we had snow on the campsite ! I was happy we had those extra blankets. No use to get up in this weather so we stayed in our sleepingbags. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the weather got better and we had a late breakfast en went to Sion. Erika was riding pillion with me so she could make some pictures while we were riding. Snow on the mountains and low hanging clouds There was a lot of snow on the mountain tops and it was very special to see clouds below us instead of above. Fortunately the road was dry now and we had a nice ride to Sion. Paul on the road to Sion In the Val d'Hérens the road is going through some special rock formations, "Les Pyramides d'Euseigne" that look very strange with rocks on top of almost every peak. Les Pyramides d'Euseigne We parked the bikes near the kiosk and bought some souvenirs and a postcard with a picture of the Pyramides d'Euseigne.

After buying the postcards we continued our ride to Sion. The road from Arolla to Sion is a very nice road to ride. A well maintained road with many nice bends and hairpins. The BMW's are made for this kind of roads with enough bottom power to accelerate out of the hairpins with power to spare. Paul's Honda was doing fine too (but I would not swap my BMW for the Honda) At six o'clock in the afternoon, we arrived back at the campsite and while Erika prepared our dinner with the groceries we bought in Sion, Paul and I went to the glacier again. We also found another nice gravel path for some offroading and had a very good time playing with the bikes. This is so much fun.... While we were pretending to be enduro riders, Erika had our dinner ready and back at the campsite we had a tasty meal. The evening we spend, as usual, in the bar of the hotel. Sunday, August 1, 1982 We got up at a quarter to ten in the morning and after breakfast, we started packing and stowed our tent and other luggage away on the bikes. Erika was preparing our breakfast We exchanged addresses with Sienus and left this nice campsite in Arolla to go to our next destination, Ried-Brig. Paul, busy folding up his blanket The weather is nice and via Sion, Sierre and Brig we rode to Ried-Brig. At five in the afternoon we arrived on camping Tropic and found a burnt building. There had been a big fire, two weeks ago. The burnt camping office at camping Tropic To our surprise, we met some people from Holland on the camping, the parents of a friend. It was very warm so we were happy with the cold lemonade they offered us.