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Quote: Originally posted by Ninjas overloaded on 15/7/2008

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Yes indeed I was watching the grindelwalds list of open walks daily,schynige platte route opened on the weekend of 28th June,quite abit of the white stuff around the Faulhorn but otherwise o.k.

I was lucky enough to once again cross to monchsjochutte and spent the night there.(58 sfr half board if memory serves me right) all in all I was lucky with the weather.Ive climbed kili and mont blanc when much younger but now mainly have to make do with easy routes due to arthritic knees so getting the train to do all that descent is a definete advantage!!

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A better route can be done from Zermatt upto the summit of the breithorn at 4168 metres,get the cable car to klein matterhorn at 3884 metres and from there its about two hours up.You will probably need a guide as there are crevasses on that route but there available locally.Its harder than monchsjuchutte but ive seen kids as younge as 10 up the summit and grannies in there 70s up there.The views of the monte rosa massiff and the area are truely amazing and well worth the effort.Definetly the easiest 4000 meter peak in the entire alps.

Walking in the bernese alps by Kev Reynolds is an excellent guidebook for easy,medium and hard walks in the area published by cicerone.