Walenpfad

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A lovely balcony path, the Walenpfad is another one of the themed walks in the area. There are excellent views from the path and it is well worth doing. You buy tickets at Engelberg railway station - train, bus and then cable car. As we had the half price Swiss card it was about £10 each. The bus we had wanted to catch was an on request but when we had called to check we got lost in a German answering service.

The staff at train station all spoke English well, so they rang for us.

On arriving at the bus in Wolfenschiessen we found we shared it with a very large school party who haunted us for the first few miles of the walk. They were fairly well behaved but very boisterous. The bus goes up through the village of Oberrickenbach to the Fell cable car station. The cable car took us up to the Chuzhutte.

From the Chuzhutte (1713m) the well marked path goes east above the Bannalpsee then up to the highest point at Walegg (1943m) then starts to go south across the Walenalp to the viewing point at Rosenbold. There are some ups and downs but the total ascent is less than 600m. From Rosenbold we walked down to Ristis and got the cable car down.

Starting out. Flickr

I loved these mountains and wanted to do a return visit for an up and over a col. We were planning to do this on the last day, but the weather turned against us - maybe another year?

Gnomme on pig! Flickr

Reflections in lake.

Caesar posing. Flickr

View across valley.

Another view down valley.

Dinosaur! Flickr

For all Engelberg photos see Flickr set.

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This page was last updated on 6th February 2011.