When I hiked (climbed) the Dolomites in northern Italy, I was struck by the dry and rugged rocky peaks. However the snow-covered Swiss Alps (over 4000m) were somehow more elegant and simply beautiful to behold.
I have rarely trekked purely in mountain villages before, and this was a great experience. This trip made me think, "If it's this great, it's not so bad to walk on the trails".
Trails walked in Grindelwald, Switzerland 2019
✅ Panorama Long rails across the High Alps Grindelwald
✅ Eiger Northface Trail
✅ Panorama Long Trails across the High Alps Grindelwald
First, 2168m ➡️ Bachalpsee ➡️ Faulhorn, 2681m ➡️ Schynige Platte, 2068m
I did my best to walk 🚶🏼♂️ But it took me 6:30h (including the panorama route + rest 🍱)
I thought it was a great long trail with amazing views and never boring. The elevation gain is relatively small, so although it is a long trail, it is easy to walk.
The hiking map received from the travel information office in Grindelwald shows the course time for the reverse pattern of the route I walked.
Schynige Platte (2068m) ➡️ Faulhorn (2681m) ➡️ First (2168m)
1️⃣ Wander Hiking：6 hour 10 minutes
2️⃣ Wanderkarte：6 hour
I think that a hiker who can walk this long trail in 6 hour is a very fit hiker 🤔 The scenery is beautiful, you have to take a lot of pictures along the way. Therefore it is difficult to walk as fast as the course time 😆
My favorite view on the trail 😍
1️⃣ Bachalpsee
2️⃣ Loucherhorn, 2231m
1️⃣First (First, 2167m) ➡️ Bachalpsee
Finsteraarhorn (4274m) and Schreckhorn (4078m) seen over Bachalpsee were very beautiful mountain landscape.
2️⃣ Loucherhorn, 2231m ➡️ Schynige Platte
The three mountains of the Bernese Oberland, Eiger (3970m), Mönch (4107m) and Jungfrau (4158m), were all visible and beautiful mountain landscape.
I thought it would be fun to connect all of them and enjoy the walk, but I also thought it would be fun just to walk back and forth between them (1️⃣ Bachalpsee or
2️⃣ Loucherhorn, 2231m). In fact, many people seem to have done so.
If you want to see the beautiful Alps over the lake, go to Bachalpsee, and if you want to see the three Bernese Oberland mountains, go to Schynige Platte.
✅ Eiger North face Trail
Eigergletscher, 2320m ➡️ Alpiglen, 1615m
It took me 2 hour to walk up the Eiger North Face Trail (including breaks) 😆
The Eiger Trail, with its close-up view of the Eiger North Face, is an unmissable trail in Grindelwald. I personally recommend this route so much that I could say I came to Grindelwald to walk "Eiger North face Trail".
The course time on the hiking map I got from the Grindelwald Travel Information Center is
1️⃣ Wander Hiking：2:50h Alpiglen, 1615m ➡️ Eigergletscher, 2320m
2️⃣ Wanderkarte：2:00h Eigergletscher, 2320m ➡️ Alpiglen, 1615m
I felt that the Eiger Trail route from Alpiglen (1615m) to Eigergletscher (2320m) is more impressive because you can see the Eiger North Face from the beginning. But it will take you longer time because the route is an ascent.
If you walk the Eiger Trail from Alpiglen (1615m) to Eigergletscher (2320m), you may want to connect the Jungfrau Eiger Walk as an option, although I personally have not walked it.
Jungfrau Eiger Walk Eigergletscher, 2320m ➡️ kleine scheidegg
This route is a well-maintained hiking route with a lake reflecting an upside-down Eiger.
The course time on the hiking map I got from the Grindelwald Travel Information Center is
1️⃣ Wander Hiking：1 hour
2️⃣ Wanderkarte：1 hour
Eiger Trail ➡️ Jungfrau Eiger Walk ➡️ walk to Kleine Scheidegg station and hang out at a restaurant course 🍺 is amazing 😂 It will definitely be a great trekking route 🤣
From the restaurant at Kleine Scheidegg station, the three mountains of the Bernese Oberland, Eiger (3970m), Mönch (4107m) and Jungfrau (4158m) are beautiful and breathtaking.
After walking the Eiger Trail and seeing the huge Eiger North Face up close, the sunset view of the Eiger (3970m) back in the village of Grindelwald will be 3 times more beautiful than before!
1️⃣ Wander Hiking
2️⃣ Wanderkarte
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