Gemmi Pass — Local services in Leukerbad

A good reason to take the cable car up to the Gemmipass above Leukerbad is to photograph the bearded vulture, a rare bird of prey, said to live on bone. e.g. cadavers. I drove there this late October Sunday in beautiful but ice cold weather, taking the first gondola at 09 sharp. Snow powdered the alpine chain to the south of us. There was ample parking close to the cable car station at this time of the day and we were accompanied by a group of serious Wallis birders, as judged from their 600-800 mm lenses. The overall cost of the equipment in our cable car was certainly above 150.000 Swiss francs. The mood was peaking already after an hour when the first birds showed up in the sharp morning sunlight. In all, our victims passed by three times in the next couple of hours, profiting from the thermal upwinds when the sun started to heat up the green trees in the valley far below us. You can notice that I still need some training to get perfectly sharp shots. I great day, I will...

Passo Sunnbüel-Gemmi Il Sunnbüel-Gemmi é un valico storico e collega Leukerbad a Kandersteg. Personaggi famosi come Lenin, Pablo Picasso, Goethe e Marc Twain sono passati da qui lasciando le loro tracce. Marc Twain racconta la sua avventura in un capitolo del suo libro „In der Schweiz” (in Svizzera) che sto leggendo attualmente. Ripercorrere questa strada fa un certo effetto! È un pò come fare un viaggio nel passato! Un tempo veniva attraversato con le “Gemmiwagen”, carrette a due route, sostituite oggi dalla funivia.

Informazioni utili Il punto di partenza é Kandersteg o Leukerbad. La nostra escursione inizia a Kandersteg. Con il bus locale no. 471 o a piedi (ca. 20 min.) si arriva alla stazione a valle Kandersteg-Sunnbüel, da quì la funivia sale fino a Sunnbüel stazione monte, da dove inizia il cammino fino all’hotel di montagna “Schwarenbach” passando da Spittelmatte. Il percorso continua fino al lago «Daubensee» per poi proseguire fino alla sommità del passo Gemmi.

Tappe dell’escursione: ​​ Kandersteg - Stazione - Sunnbüel (1’934 m) Schwarenbach (2’060 m) Daubensee (2’207 m) Passo del Gemmi (2’322 m)

Durata dell’escursione: 3,5 ore...

Nothing but just great things to say, thank you for making our stay memorable and you were all amazing towards our kids and it's so much appreciated. You all have to stay a night or many nights at Gemmi Pass Lodge. The food is great, the stay is comfortable and the view is unbeatable, extra for been kids friendly! We will definitely be back, with...