Lauterbrunnen – Rotstockhutte: in one afternoon?
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Hi,
My friend and I plan on hiking for 5 days during the first week of September 2017 and I wanted advice on whether our first day itinerary is realistic:
We are arriving in Lauterbrunnen on a train around 12:30pm.
We will take the cable car/train to Murren via Grüschalp, which takes 20 minutes and runs every 20 minutes, so hopefully we will make it to Murren by 1:30pm.
Then we plan to do the via ferrata to Gimmelwald, which I understands takes 2-3 hours, so hopefully we will arrive in Gimmelwald by 4:30.
Then we plan to hike to Rotstockhutte, which I understand is about 2.5 hours hike from Gimmelwald, so hopefully we will arrive at the hut in time for dinner at 7pm.
Does this sound realistic for the first day? My friend and I are both fit and experienced hikers. We can’t really arrive in Lauterbrunnen any earlier. I’m mostly concerned that the hike from Gimmelwald to Rotstockhutte will take longer than expected, as I haven’t been able to find any trip reports or info on the timing for this part of the hike (since it seems most people arrive via Murren). Or would you recommend hiking back to to Murren and reaching Rotstockhutte via that path that passes thru Schiltalp.
If the itinerary does seem doable, we will advise the hut that we won’t be arriving until 7pm and hopefully they’ll save some dinner for us.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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