To Murren

After breakfast at Obersteinberg we headed-out into the fog for our “drop” of 3000’ on a nicely switch-backed trail to Stechelberg where we could catch the bus back to Lauterbrunnen. With many stops for Nancy to take pictures of wildflowers, we made the downhill hike in 2 hours, 45 minutes (compared to the 4.25 hrs. going up).

On the way to Lauterbrunnen we got off the bus to see Trummelbach Falls—an incredible series of cataracts that plummet their way down hundreds of feet in a channel so narrow that it looks like the waterfall is mostly inside a mountain! For a fee of 11 Swiss francs, one can take a “cable elevator” up a couple hundred feet to gain access to tunnels blasted out of the rock that lead to one after another of the 10 different cataracts. Quite impressive!

When we reached Murren by cable car and train we found the whole delightful village fogged-in. Note Nancy standing in front of our hotel, the Hotel Jungfrau. - rw