Through the Frutigspissen

19.79 km long
Difficulty: difficult
Condition: difficult
Hiking Trail
  • 6:00 h
  • 19.79 km
  • 318 m
  • 872 m
  • 779 m
  • 1,357 m
  • 578 m
  • Start: Adelboden
  • Destination: Frutigen

Scenic and ethnologically educational hike. The Frutigspissen lie on the eastern slope of the Niesen chain. Many mountain streams have deeply carved into the soft slate rock present here. Therefore, the usable pieces of land in between are only narrow (Spisse = narrow piece of land). Today, the Spissen are largely developed and the narrow old Spissen path is partly paved.

(Description in reverse direction) The ascent through the forest to the terrace of Gempele is extremely steep, where you reach the Spissen path at the edge of the deeply incised Chratzeregrabe. One is surprised to find magnificent, only gently sloping mountain meadows here. With little difference in altitude, the mountain road now swings into the ravine, leads to the particularly narrow Spisse Chratzere and again through a deep incision to Linter. The constant alternation between wooded ravines and open mountain meadows is soothing. On the further path via Ladholz, the path crossing the ravine becomes ever narrower. At Otterebach, you cross the municipal boundary between Frutigen and Adelboden. Gross Lohner and Wildstrubel seem already within reach. Via Egereschwand and Ussere Schwand you reach Adelboden.

Berner Wanderwege
Berner Wanderwege

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Pavements

Street
Asphalt
Trail
Path

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

Adelboden - Rinderwald - Gempele - Rohrbach - Grantibrügg - Frutigen

Equipment

We recommend the following equipment: light trekking shoes, light backpack, sun protection, rain jacket, pocket first-aid kit, light picnic, sufficient fluids, mobile phone.

Directions & Parking facilities

Outbound trip: by train to Frutigen. Then by bus to Adelboden.

Return trip: from Frutigen by train

Additional information

Bern Hiking Association, Bern, Tel.: 031 340 01 01, E-mail: info@beww.ch, Homepage: www.bernerwanderwege.ch

Literature

Hiking suggestion from the hiking book Thunersee - Frutigland, hiking book series of the BWW

License (master data)

Safety guidelines

This route runs entirely on hiking trails.

Map

Swisstopo hiking map 1:50,000 263T Wildstrubel

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