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HASLITAL

ACCESS AND INFORMATION

Location At the eastern end of the Bernese Oberland, draining north from the Grimsel Pass to the Brienzer See. Maps LS 255T Sustenpass, 265T Nufenenpass, 254T Interlaken at 1:50,000; Wanderkarte Oberhasli at 1:50,000 available locally Bases Innertkirchen (625m), Meiringen (595m) Information Tourist Information Innertkirchen, CH–3862 Innertkirchen (Tel 033 972 12 20 www.innertkirchen.ch); Tourist Information Meiringen-Haslital, Bahnhofstr. 22, CH–3860 Meiringen (Tel 033 972 50 50 www.alpenregion.ch) Access By train to Meiringen via Interlaken or Lucerne; the rest of the valley is served by postbus. In summer a postbus service operates several times a day between Meiringen and Andermatt across the Grimsel Pass (reservations obligatory).

As a base for a walking holiday, or as the starting point for an exploration of the Bernese Alps, the flat-bottomed, deeply cut Haslital has much to commend it. In its upper reaches near the Grimsel Pass, it has all the raw, semi-barren features of the high mountains, but at its lower, northern end where it curves to meet the gleaming expanse of the Mediterranean-like Brienzer See, it’s broad and open with low-lying meadows and chalets with flowers at their balconies. The Grimsel Pass is at 2165m, the Brienzer See a modest 564m. Between the two extremes the valley descends in a series of steps exhibiting a rich variety of landscapes with lush pastures, dazzling cascades, deep shadowed gorges and several tributary glens worth exploring.