Originally Posted by
trueblu
My mother and daughter decided to go cable car up and back -- which was absolutely the right decision -- no way they could have managed the hike up. My sister, wife and I hiked up, which was tiring but not exhausting. We met up at tower 14, and went over to tower 15 and to the 'top' of it, for vistas of lots of mist (!). We got rained on going up, but that was preferable to scorching heat by a long shot.
My mother decided that she couldn't manage much more, so we headed back: mother/daughter down cable car. We hiked it over to tower 6 for the alpine slide down. Unfortunately, this was closed due to the rain. By this point, we were all fairly tired, so we decided to get the ski-lift back down, which was pleasant enough.
tb
I'm being lazy (and also a bit tight on time), so I'm taking the cable car up, walking down to the alpine slide, and head down that way. Ignoring time to take in the sights and pictures on the wall itself, how much time would it take to cable car up, walk to the alpine slide, and head down?