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EuroTripping – Wengen to Lauterbrunnen Hike

While we stayed outside Basel, Switzerland this past summer, we drove to Lauterbrunnen, a village in a na

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EuroTripping – Wengen to Lauterbrunnen Hike

While we stayed outside Basel, Switzerland this past summer, we drove to Lauterbrunnen, a village in a narrow valley in the Bernese Oberland region, to take a hike.

Once parked, we took a mountain train, which climbed from the 288m elevation in Lauterbrunnen up to 1274m where Wengen, a small village up on one of the ridges, overlooks the steep valley. After a quick wander in the town (and some liquid refreshment) we began to make our way back down to Lauterbrunnen.

It was another hot day and, fortunately, much of the initial hike was through fairly dense forest. This meant that we didn’t have a view of anything while in the shade — but seeing how steep the trail was, I was too busy looking down to find safe footing amongst the dirt and rock and root to care about a pretty vista. The sun was harsh and unforgiving but I did still, of course, take many shots during the hike when we did have a view or other sights to note.

Here are some images from our Wengen to Lauterbrunnen hike in Switzerland back in late June.

A sign along the track welcoming folks to Wengen

Cow, flag and bright red shutters

A very Swiss facade

This was above someone’s carport

In Wengen, looking up at some towering peaks

Leafless creepers

We came across some cows, but not as many as on our previous hike

A little outbuilding next to a steep cliff

Oops: This house has seen better days

Someone’s woodpile

A helicopter flying about

Rock formation

Grass, mountains, valley and waterfall

A couple having some wedding photos taken randomly at the beginning of the forest path

We had some sunny walking on a farm road after the forest portion of the hike

Getting closer to Lauterbrunnen

I thought the copses were lovely

Some working folk taking a rest in the shade

Another outbuilding with a view

Almost back down to Lauterbrunnen

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Madom da Sgióf TI, Switzerland
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Madom da Sgióf TI, Switzerland
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Piz Linard GR, Switzerland
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Piz Linard GR, Switzerland
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Distulberg VS, Switzerland
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Distulberg VS, Switzerland
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EuroTripping – Brunnihütte to Engelberg Hike

On our European Pretzel this past summer, we finally made it to the edge of Switzerland where we stayed

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EuroTripping – Brunnihütte to Engelberg Hike

On our European Pretzel this past summer, we finally made it to the edge of Switzerland where we stayed just outside Basel for 5 nights. On our first full day, we got up early and drove into the small village of Engelberg at the foot of Mt Titlis, where we took a cable car and then a chairlift up to Brunnihütte. At 1860 meters above sea level it had some nice views of the surrounding mountains, including Titlis, and they stayed with us as we hiked back down to Engelberg.

We thought we might escape the 38C temps in Basel that day, but Engelberg was climbing fast towards a hight of 34C so our trekking wasn’t as breezy as we had hoped. Still, the views were lovely to the eye — but with that bright summer sun, taking shots was a bit of a challenge. Here are a few snaps of the views (and ubiquitous Swiss cows) seen as we made our way down the mountain above Engelberg, Switzerland.

Leaving Engelberg on our cable car

Looking up

That’s us in there!

A view in one direction from Brunnihütte

A chairlift overhead as we start to make our way down

Cows with a view

Fencing and structures presumably to help avert avalanches

Some nice geology across the valley

The sunny path ahead

You can see the viewing platform over on Mt Titlis (a much more expensive ride up to that peak led us to choose to look at Titlis instead of looking from Titlis)

More avalanche guards — reminding me a bit of Czech hedgehogs

More cows ahead

A cute youngling

Up close and personal

Final descent down to Engelberg

#hiking #photography #alps #blackandwhitephotography #travel #switzerland #mountains #photoblog #swissalps #cows #brunnihütte #engelberg #ristis

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Lauberhorn BE, Switzerland
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Lauberhorn BE, Switzerland
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Hoch Fulen UR, Switzerland
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Hoch Fulen UR, Switzerland
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Steingletscher UR, Switzerland
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Steingletscher UR, Switzerland
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