Today’s walk from Linthal to the Klausenpass was supposed to be
another 24 kilometers, but we’d shortened it by staying in
Braunwald.
And away we go!In the early morning, most of the forests
were completely socked in with fog.
Much of this walk was relatively easy, through cool damp forest and
then along the valley of Uri to the town of Urnerboden. We stopped at
the Hotel Sonne for Gulashsuppe and Gershensuppe (barley soup).
At one point the trail unbelievably led
through a working gravel factory.The town of Urner Boden lies in the flat
valley.
The challenge started in the afternoon, when we began to climb up to
the Klausenpass. This climb wasn’t so bad!
We stopped at the little roadside café
for a snack of Schnitzelbrot. This place is very popular with the
motorcyclists and sportscar drivers who frequent this
route.Postbuses travel everywhere in
Switzerland. The drivers seem unphased by navigating these serpentines.
I guess they do it every day.
Then it was a short walk on to our accommodation. Alpine Exploratory
had luckily gotten us a room at the Hotel Klausenpass, a hotel situated
right on the pass. Often hikers must catch a bus down to Altdorf to
spend the night and take the bus back to resume the hike the next
morning, so it was a treat to be able to stay on the pass itself.
The Hotel Klausenpass, or
KlausenpasshoheWe had a good steak for dinner, followed
by this meringue, which looks like a marine arthropod from the
Carboniferous period.
