Liz and I spent three nights at the half board Alpenrose Hotel in Wengen. Since our first day Saturday was the only one with a clear weather forecast we prioritized the Jungfraujoch viewpoint at 11,300 feet. The train rides and activities consumed 3 hours so we only skied 12,200 vertical. The weather and being Saturday made it very busy. We were the only people wearing ski boots, as there were tons of Asian tourists who were spending 200CHF to go up there. It was 63CHF extra for us with a 3 or more day lift ticket.
Sunday we were at Murren-Schilthorn, much quieter than Saturday. We had soup and strudel at the Piz Gloria revolving restaurant, so about 1.5 hours there with view deck and the James Bond On Her Majesties Secret Service exhibit. We took hundreds of pics on Saturday and Sunday, so it will be a daunting task to go through them.
On our departure day Monday the weather was overcast, and chances of rain to 6,000+ feet were 20% by noon and 50% by 2PM. We packed and got to the Mannlichen tram about 9:45 so we could ski most of the runs we missed Saturday.
James:
Liz noted this sign near the top of Mannlichen.
On Sunday at Murren I inadvertently skied into one of these parapente takeoff areas and had to traverse out through some ugly refrozen snow.
We skied pistes to the Mannlichen and Lager chairs before moving on to the Honegg, Arven and Eigernordwand chairs we had not skied Saturday. View of Kleine Scheidegg at center and the Jungfraujoch buildings are in the saddle of the top ridge between the Monch and the Jungfrau.
The chair and gondola towers from left lead to the Eigergletscher station where we caught the train to the top on Saturday.
After one run on Honegg we rode Eigernordwand, which closed for wind (a localized breeze by Mammoth standards). We still skied its 26 piste because the Arven chair still gets up to the pass at Kleine Scheidegg.
We skied into Kleine Scheidegg just as the train was departing on the Grindelwald side.
Another Kleine Scheidegg view:
We took a couple laps on the Lauberhorn chair, which had these only in Switzerland lift tower ads.
We had to wait for a Swiss meat wagon near the bottom of the Lauberhorn lift.
It took off and was soon tiny with the Eiger background.
We declined skiing the Lauberhorn downhill World Cup run at 4:00pm Saturday due to likely flying bodies and scraped snow. We skied it Monday 12:30, smooth, deserted and during the only sunny break of the day with nice spring snow on the lower half.
Some of the protective netting is still up from the prior weekend World Cup race.
From this area we have a good view across the valley to Murren at lower left and the Brig and Schilthorn front and back peaks with tram stations at center.
Coming into Wengen there is short uphill with this rope tow for assistance.
On Saturday there were too many people so the rope tow stopped as it couldn’t handle the weight. We skied 16,200 vertical and the hotel van met us at the train station with our luggage to catch the 1:42 train down to Lauterbrunnen.
We got on the road at 2:20 and the predicted rain hit hard from 3-5pm while driving toward Dijon, where we spent the next two days avoiding some marginal ski weather.
Sunday we were at Murren-Schilthorn, much quieter than Saturday. We had soup and strudel at the Piz Gloria revolving restaurant, so about 1.5 hours there with view deck and the James Bond On Her Majesties Secret Service exhibit. We took hundreds of pics on Saturday and Sunday, so it will be a daunting task to go through them.
On our departure day Monday the weather was overcast, and chances of rain to 6,000+ feet were 20% by noon and 50% by 2PM. We packed and got to the Mannlichen tram about 9:45 so we could ski most of the runs we missed Saturday.
James:
Does this count?
Liz noted this sign near the top of Mannlichen.
On Sunday at Murren I inadvertently skied into one of these parapente takeoff areas and had to traverse out through some ugly refrozen snow.
We skied pistes to the Mannlichen and Lager chairs before moving on to the Honegg, Arven and Eigernordwand chairs we had not skied Saturday. View of Kleine Scheidegg at center and the Jungfraujoch buildings are in the saddle of the top ridge between the Monch and the Jungfrau.
The chair and gondola towers from left lead to the Eigergletscher station where we caught the train to the top on Saturday.
After one run on Honegg we rode Eigernordwand, which closed for wind (a localized breeze by Mammoth standards). We still skied its 26 piste because the Arven chair still gets up to the pass at Kleine Scheidegg.
We skied into Kleine Scheidegg just as the train was departing on the Grindelwald side.
Another Kleine Scheidegg view:
We took a couple laps on the Lauberhorn chair, which had these only in Switzerland lift tower ads.
We had to wait for a Swiss meat wagon near the bottom of the Lauberhorn lift.
It took off and was soon tiny with the Eiger background.
We declined skiing the Lauberhorn downhill World Cup run at 4:00pm Saturday due to likely flying bodies and scraped snow. We skied it Monday 12:30, smooth, deserted and during the only sunny break of the day with nice spring snow on the lower half.
Some of the protective netting is still up from the prior weekend World Cup race.
From this area we have a good view across the valley to Murren at lower left and the Brig and Schilthorn front and back peaks with tram stations at center.
Coming into Wengen there is short uphill with this rope tow for assistance.
On Saturday there were too many people so the rope tow stopped as it couldn’t handle the weight. We skied 16,200 vertical and the hotel van met us at the train station with our luggage to catch the 1:42 train down to Lauterbrunnen.
We got on the road at 2:20 and the predicted rain hit hard from 3-5pm while driving toward Dijon, where we spent the next two days avoiding some marginal ski weather.
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