CHUR - Graubuenden's high-hunt period opened with the usual notices on trailheads: some paths closed, some hours limited, orange caps in the larch. Game wardens asked autumn hikers to read the board before they posted a complaint from the ridge.
Quotas and counts will be argued in inns whether the numbers are up or down. They always are. The canton treats the hunt as management. Visitors treat it as a surprise.
Empty beds, full woods
Second-home villages go quiet in midweek October, then fill on Friday. The woods do not follow that timetable. Wardens wish both groups would notice the other.