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Off the Beaten Path in Grindelwald

Aletsch Glacier and South - Grindelwald
Aletsch Glacier and South
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Tips and photos of unusual, out-of-the-way Grindelwald attractions, posted by real travelers and locals.
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Aletschglacier-Hike - 2 days off the beaten path
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  • Updated By globetrott on November 29, 2005
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  • Konkordiaplatz & -huette in a big distance - Grindelwald
    Konkordiaplatz & -huette in a
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    An Aletschglacier-Hike might be the ultimate experience during your vacation in Switzerland :
    You will start in Interlaken the first day and will go up and explore Jungfraujoch, before you will take a 4-hour hike to Konkordiaplatz, where you will have a short rest and picknick before you will cross a small montain-river and step up to Konkordiahuette in a height of 2850 meters above sea-level.There you will be served Cheese-fondue and spend the night in a simple dormitory. The next day you will start again after a rich breakfast-buffet, passing by impressive crevasses and a great mountain-scenery. The hike will end at Kuehboden, where you take down the cablecar and go home via Fiesch - Brig - Spiez to Interlaken.
    From Jungfraujoch you may see just half of the Grosser Aletsch-gletscher.Konkordia-Huette is at about the end of the glacier that you may see on my picture, close to that mountain that looks like a pyramid.Enlarge my pics and get an idea about the distances !
    Anyone is able to do this hike, when beeing able to walk 4-6 hours a day.
    The price is 380 sfr ( 315 sfr if you have a half-tax-billet or similar)
    and it includes the guiding, all transports, accomodation, dinner&breakfast
    These tours are available between july and october
    every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday !!
    Make a reservation in advance - see the webpage below !
    NEVER do such a walk without a local guide !!!

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    Grindelwald-Grund
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  • By globetrott on November 27, 2005
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  • Grindelwald-Grund & the train to Kl.Scheidegg - Grindelwald
    Grindelwald-Grund & the train
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    Grindelwald-Grund is down in the valley of Luetschine, and with a height of 943 meters it is almost 100 meters lower than the much more famous centre of Grindelwald. All trains to Kleine Scheidegg will go through Grindelwald-Grund, where you may also change to the cablecar taking you up to Maennlichen - 2227 meters above sea-level.
    Grindelwald-Grund has a lot less sunshine than Grindelwald, but the hotels are also a bit cheaper than in Grindelwald !!

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    Hiking from Kleine Scheidegg to Maennlichen
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  • Updated By globetrott on November 30, 2005
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  • Kleine Scheidegg towards Maennlichen - Grindelwald
    Kleine Scheidegg towards
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    Kleine Scheidegg is a great place to start hiking to Maennlichen - in a distance of 1:20 h - along one of the most scenic hiking-paths in that area. You will pass by several nice restaurants and simple alpine-hotels and will have the possibility to take the cablecar from Maennlichen to Grindelwald-Grund or to Wengen.
    Hiking down all the way from Maennlichen to Lauterbrunnen will take 4 hours
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    click here for a 360 degree-panorama from Maennlichen
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    the panorama of Maennlichen in wintertime
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    Bort - at halfway to First
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  • Updated By globetrott on November 27, 2005
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  • Bort - at halfway to First - Grindelwald
    Bort - at halfway to First
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    Bort is the middle-station of the First cablecar in a height of 1570 meters above sea-level. Around of the station of Bort you will find some restaurants and a few cheap mountain-hotels. You will not have to leave the cabin, BUT you may do so and go down the rest of the hill with so-called "Trotti-bikes" (scooters) at a great system of asphalted mountain-roads. Bort is also a place, where you may start to walk to Hotel Wetterhorn, where you may take the bus to Grosse Scheidegg.
    Helmets are compulsory, when renting such a scooter - you may rent them togeather with the "Trotti-bike"

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    Reach the Jungfraujoch by train.
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  • By dabidc on March 1, 2004
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  • Early morning and -2 C - Grindelwald
    Early morning and -2 C
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    The visit to the observation tower on the Jungfraujoch is not a journey many people will ever complete by climbing the face of the mountain since it is 3450 m above sea level.

    This journey is unconventional since it uses a rail system that climbs the mountain inside the Eiger.

    The best time to start is early morning and I chose the first train from Grindelwald to Kleine Scheidegg which leaves at 8.00am

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    Moenchsjochhuette in a height of 3650 m
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  • Updated By globetrott on November 30, 2005
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  • on the way to Moenchsjochhuette - Grindelwald
    on the way to
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    Moenchsjochhuette is in fact one of the remotest restaurants & hotels in Switzerland, because you have to walk about 45 minutes one way from the Jungfraujoch in order to get there. It is a pity, I did not have enough time to get there, BUT at least I made half-way and had a great time there out on the glacier in perfect weather. Stay on the path, even though the crevasses next to the path might be a temptation for passionate photographers.
    Moenchsjochhuette offers also Dormitories / Massenlager - BUT you better reserve your bed in advance - see their telephone-number below !
    see here a panorama-view of the path to Moenchstalhuette !

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    Saegistalsee - high above Iseltwald
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  • By globetrott on November 27, 2005
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  • Saegistalsee - Grindelwald
    Saegistalsee
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    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.

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    A window on the World.
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  • By dabidc on March 1, 2004
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  • Grindelwald from the Eiger. - Grindelwald
    Grindelwald from the Eiger.
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    The train was soon travelling inside the Eiger. The rail line is a single track in the mountain and to allow trains to pass each other as one climbs and the other descends, there are passing places.

    At the first location there is also a station and passages that lead to windows in the wall of the Eiger that give views across the valley and show not only Grindelwald but the mountains on the North side of the valley.

    the mountains on that side of the valley include First , which is an excellent place to visit and to hike around. there are excellent views of the higher mountains towards the Jungfrau. A cable car runs to First and one of the othermountains is Faulhorn which is another place to hike to.

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    Final stop.
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  • By dabidc on March 1, 2004
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  • I had to prove I was there. - Grindelwald
    I had to prove I was there.
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    It is surprising to see a station inside a mountain and to realise that it is at about 3200 m .

    More amazing things are to be discovered, a cafeteria / reastaurant with views over the terrain to the north.

    A chamber of ice sculptures and yes the outside world in dazzling white snow.

    Like all the other folks up there it was a time for photos and since the day was clear as crystal, the views were into Germany and France as well as the parts of Switzerland north of the Bernese Oberland.

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    Hike from Grindelwald to Faulhorn & Axalp
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  • By globetrott on November 27, 2005
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  • Axalp in 1972 - the Hotel Kurhaus Axalp - Grindelwald
    Axalp in 1972 - the Hotel
    Kurhaus Axalp
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    Axalp is a mountain-terrace high above Brienzersee, opposite of Brienz, and you may first take the cablecar from Grindelwald to First and start hiking from there to Faulhorn and Axalp - a total walkingtime of 5 hours : the steepest part of that mountain-path is certainly the path between Bachalpsee and Faulhorn, the rest is rather smooth.
    the only restaurants along the way are in First, Faulhorn Hotel and then again Axalp, where 2 hotels are waiting for you. Choose the one on my picture and drink a glass "Kaffee fertig" ...
    ...and be aware of the fact, that THIS hotel was the one where I started my hotel-carreer in 1972, as a young student from Austria, who was searching for a job in Switzerland...
    From Axalp you may walk down to Giessbach and Brienz wihin 4-5 hours or you take the public bus to Brienz !

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