Travelog post for: Knopf

There was a big article in the newspaper about hiking in Switzerland and how it has become very popular again. Well, of course we have to join in, after all it's the only way to really see the mountains in summer. We drove to Niederrickenbach and took the cableway up to Maria-Rickenbach.

There's a monastery of Benedictine nuns up there which is a place of pilgrimage. No road leads up, so the mail, groceries etc. are also brought up by cableway.
Maria-Rickenbach is a bit above 1000m high. Our destination was the Brisenhaus at 1753m. There were many friendly cows with their bells around. That way it's never really silent here, even if there are no people or machines around.


We climbed up from just over 1000m nearly to the Brisenhaus at 1753m.
There were single houses along the way, some offering a place to sleep in the straw.

The way got steep and eventually changed from gravel road to a path over the meadows.

We got closer to the tree line and also to the clods that hung low over the mountain ridge.


Finally we could see the Brisenhaus. The climb from here was scheduled for another 30 min because it was so steep and the way wasn't good.

We had a good view over the Stanserhorn.




On the way back down we took a quick look at the monastery garden. It was very pretty with a good view and peaceful.