Some facts and history
by Manara
Tourism provides 90% of the income for this village of 4000 inhabitants.
While the Swiss Alps were already visited by many holiday-makers in the summer, Grindelwald was the first place to attract also winter vacationers. At the beginning, in 1888, they enjoyed ice-skating, curling and sleigh riding. In 1891 they started skiing as well, and a few years later they discovered ice-hockey and bobsleigh. There were 10 hotels in Grindelwald in 1889: they became 33 by 1914.
Not bad at all for a village that until 1860 did not even have a proper road! The railway that reaches Grindelwald from Interlaken was built in 1890, and the cogwheel railway from Grindelwald to Kleine Scheidegg was inaugurated in 1893. The railway, partly inside the Eiger, from Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch was completed in 1912.
Sustenpass
by robertgaz
The high alpine road to the Sustenpass is one of the Bernese Oberland's most scenic road trips.
It's on the road between Interlaken and Wassen just before Andermatt and it twists and turns to a height of 2,259m.
Saegistalsee - high above Iseltwald
by globetrott
Saegistalsee is a small mountain-lake in the hight of 1937 meters above sea-level and you will pass by it when you hike from Schynigge Platte to Faulhorn - at about half of the way between Weberhuette (read more about it in my restaurant-tip!) and the Faulhorn.
I could not find an official walking-path to this lake, but you may see it even from a long distance when walking to Faulhorn.
Saegistalsee is high above Iseltwald, BUT the steep rocks around the lake will not allow you to walk down directely from Seagistalsee to Iseltwald.
The cableway to Pfingstegg
by Manara
This tip is not about something I have done, but about a thing I wish to do the next time I go to Grindelwald.
There is another cableway in Grindelwald, which goes the opposite direction with respect to the one to First. The Pfingsteggbahn is not long (just over one kilometre) and the altitude difference with respect to the village is about 360 metres, but this is enough to see the surrounding panorama from a differente perspective.
My plan, however, is not just to get to Pfingstegg and have a meal at the restaurant. There is a hiking path, here in the lower part of the Mettenberg mountain, going to Stieregg, a vantage point to admire the glaciers Grindelwaldgletcher, Eismeer and Fischerwand. The hike from Pfingstegg is supposed to take one hour.
Eismeer - a station in a height of 3160 meters
by globetrott
EISMEER is the name of the 3rd station of the Jungfraujoch-bahn and it is the one with the most interesting view in my opinion, because you may see the permanent glaciers of the Eiger from a short distance, standing inside the mountain, just looking out through 2 giant windows.
There is no ordinary path leading to this glaciers and only extreme mountain-climbers will ever get into that area with a height of about 3000 meters above sea-level.
You will stop also at this station for about 10 minutes, you may get outside of the train in order to take pics or talk to a man about a horse...
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Schiltorn skiing area
Outskirts of Grindelwald
The New Hut
In the vicinity of Kleine Scheidegg
