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We made it up, but we were a lot younger. There were loads of people going up and some were in flipflops. There was snow at the top even though it was summer. Coming down was worse as my knees suffered

some were in flipflops

This is madness, @bingbabe had some unsuitable footwear when when ascended in the cable car, but the walk on the top was only around a mile and she managed it. Some people go completely unprepared such as ME as few weeks ago.

We were in hiking boots