The road less travelled

Published on 3rd August 2014

A solitary hiker walks the remote, single-track high alpine road between the Oberaarsee lake and the Grimsel Pass road, in canton Bern.

Published

3rd August 2014

Topics

Bernese Oberland, Grimsel Pass, Switzerland, guttannen, hiker, landscape photography, oberaarsee, Switzerland, the red makes it

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Mila says:

8th August 2014 at 11:53 am

It is very nice photo. I like the colours, they look like they were very natural. It is also crazy how curvy the road is, I can only imagine how fun it is to drive there by car;).

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- Mark Howells-Mead says:
  
  8th August 2014 at 12:16 pm
  
  Thanks, Mila. It’s particularly fun because it’s an alternating one-way road: up from the Grimsel Pass on the full hour, and back on the half hour.
  
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