Grimsel Pass

There are people, who compare the Grimsel pass with a moon landscape. If you wind yourself up this road on your motorbike from Innertkirchen, you will automatically gain a similar impression when you see all these concrete dams, built into the Grimsel.

However your view should go preferentially onto the mossy green that covers the granite rocks (see pictures), which is typical for the Grimsel. The road is first class. Smoothly, only several tunnels and from the lining point of view, perfect. Even the serpentines in the upper part are gentle to drive. If you approach the Grimsel pass from the North, you will find it best for driving. Starting in Innertkirchen, especially in the evening time, the road is nearly empty and you will find some super, inexpensive, high-quality and nevertheless wooden overnight accomodations on top of the pass.

At the Grimsel lake you then may observe the next morning the sun rising slowly over the dome-shaped mountains. The sunset on the Grimsel cannot be described. Just go there and enjoy yourself. When you have enjoyed the famous dinner in one of the hotels, there is still time left to use the empty road for one more fast ride down to Innertkirchen and back to the hotel.

The South side towards Gletsch opens a marvelous view into the valley of the young Rhone, which is up here still named Rotten. The serpentines are wide, and Gletsch is reached very fast, from where you then may turn to the right into the Valais county or turn left to enter the Furka pass road, which brings you up towards the Furka pass and the Rhone glacier.

From the top of Grimsel, another nice place can be easily approached, normally missed by the tourist. Nearby the hotel Alpenroesli, a private company road starts, leading up to the main dams and the upper glacier lakes. A traffic light regulates the traffic on this single track road in periods of 30 minutes. If you stay overnight on the Grimsel in one of the hotels, this excursion is highly recommended, as during the evening you will experience the mountain world with the sunset in its eternal ice and snow.