Gimmelwald Warnings Or Dangers

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Good good hiking-shoes are not really necessary as long as you stay on the asphalted path between Gimmelwald and Muerren, BUT as soon as you start walking in and around Muerren and especially at the Allmendhubel, Winteregg and the Schilthorn, it makes sense to wear good walking-shoes in order to be able to step aside and use the smaller paths, like the one that I saw on top of Schilthorn with that funny "trafic-sign" that you may see on my main picture. Many of the paths are slippery sometimes, you will have to step through alpine pastures, solid rocks and loose gravel - all of that is not really a good place to show your latest fashion-shoes...
Be careful, when hiking at glaciers in wintertime : For some people it is not always easy to understand, why you would not be allowed to leave the marked paths on top of Jungfraujoch. You may see great crevasses there nearby and plenty of foot-prints of other tourists leading there as well...
Please keep in my mind, that any rescue-activities have to be payed by the incautious tourists, and most of the insurances will not pay anything, when you had left the ordinary mountain-paths !!
Some chocolate and an extra bottle of water makes always sense, because when hiking you never know how long you will have to wait for help in case of an emergency or when you are forced to get shelter in an empty mountain-hut because it is that foggy or raining outside that you cannot see, where you are going.
Bottles of the light PET-material are the best - you will not feel them, when they are empty, and you may re-fill them at many natural fountains on your way - the quality of the mountain-water is always excellent in Switzerland and the cheapest mineral water you may buy in a vending-machine is 2 sfr., mostly it is even more expensive.
A cell-phone with a good battery is also essential, especially when you know also the important numbers of the local rescue-teams !