Rhine-Reuss-Rhôneweg: Ernen - Brig/Gils

Medium
21.8 km
6:10 h
276 mhd
793 mhd
Brig/Gils: Wallfahrtskirche
Ernen mit Kirche St. Georg

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Eingang Kapelle Ernerwald
The Rhine-Reuss-Rhône Way connects the Graubünden Surselva to the vicinity of Lake Geneva. From the beginning in Disentis over the passes Oberalp and Furka to the Valais Goms we are, today again up to half of the stage, in the mountains at over 1000 m on the way.
Technique 1/6
Fitness 4/6
Highest Point  1302 m
Lowest Point  672 m
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Start
Ernen in the village square
Destination
Brig at the town square
Coordinates
46.398553, 8.145755

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Description

We climb onto the Trusera water pipeline in the Erner Forest to avoid car traffic into the Binn Valley. After crossing the Binna, we make a small additional loop to the idyllically situated Jakobskapelle on the Albrunweg. On the shady slope we hike via Grengiols to Mörel, past the children's cemetery zen Hohen Flühen of Bitsch and on the Red Mile to the Totenplatte in Naters. Behind the Mauritius Church stands the more than 500-year-old ossuary, where thousands of skulls stare at us behind a bare. On the opposite side of the Rotten, in Brig, a (pilgrim) hospice of St. Anthony with a chapel was founded as early as 1304, which was the Upper Valais hospital until after the Simplon tunnel was built. In its vicinity we find the convent of the Ursulines, founded by Kaspar Stockalper (1609-1691), and the Stockalper secondary school of the Collegium Spiritus Sanktus, each with an impressive church

Geheimtipp

For the first three hours we have no shortcut or alternative transport option. From Grengiols we can always get to a station of the Matterhorn-Gotthard Railway (MGB) within a reasonable period of time.

Ausrüstung

On this alpine trail to Goms, frosty and windy conditions are also possible outside the winter months. Good weather protection is therefore doubly important

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