The last long stretch to the pass was a broad winding path ideal for mountain bikers and there were a few (even though they were pushing rather than riding). Walking down I talked to a man who was counting young cows and feeding them salt. It turned out that it was a German from Baden-Würtemberg, who was working at an Alp for three months with his wife and a friend. Paid work, my mouth fell open when he told me that between the three of them they earned 40,000 francs in three months. Money the Swiss apparently were not willing to do the job for. They were "Gastarbeiter", so to say.