High trail Elsigenalp - Adelboden

Park your car in Frutigen and travel by public transport to Elsigbach at the valley station. After your hike ending in Adelboden, take the AFA bus line from Adelboden back to Frutigen. 

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Free parking spaces can be found at the valley station in Elsigbach.

Shortly after your start at Elsigenalp, you walk past Brandsee and after a short time already enjoy the best alpine panorama. Your view extends over the entire Engstligtal with the most beautiful view of Adelboden and the surrounding mountains. On lush alpine meadows, you hike via Alp Metsch, Bunderalp to Adelboden and from the Berghaus Bunderalp merge into the well-known Via Alpina route to Adelboden.

Hiking is at your own risk: Tourism Adelboden-Lenk-Kandersteg assumes no liability for the use of local routes.

No heavy boots are needed here: This hike is well marked and secured yellow or red-white. Hungry? Guests are well served at the Berghaus Elsigenalp or at the Berghaus Bonderalp.

The high trail can ideally be integrated as a day stage into a two-day route. The Elsigenalp "alternative" to the Via Alpina from Kandersteg to Adelboden. However, this route certainly doesn't have to hide behind the big name. The route from Kandersteg up to the Golitschen Pass is challenging and partly steep, but the panorama into the Kandertal recompenses every drop of sweat. The route slows down the pace, and those looking for a path away from tourist crowds are exactly right here. (→ Via Alpina - Stage 14)

From the Golitschen Pass you can then enjoy a wonderful view of the Kander and Engstligental valleys, and the Elsigenalp invites you to linger, where you can also enjoy a fine dinner and a comfortable night directly at the Berghaus Elsigenalp. The next day you take the high trail from Elsigenalp to Adelboden.

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