Posts about brienzersee
Uferweg Iseltwald
Published in
A pedestrian-only footpath through the woods and cliffs on the southern shore of Lake Brienz.
Thunersee and Brienzersee – Pure Switzerland
Published in
The region I’ve been calling home for sixteen years.
Iseltwald am Brienzersee
Published in
A spring-like day and an afternoon stroll around a little village on the shore of Lake Brienz.
Lombachalp–Augstmatthorn–Suggiture
Published in
A testing and rewarding hike from the peat moorland of Lombachalp to two summits on the vertiginous Brienzergrat ridge.
Chüematta
Published in
A higher-resolution version of the panoramic view from my previous post about our hike from Isenfluh, photographed from high above the southern end of the Lütschine and Lauterbrunnen valleys as they open into the Bödeli plain near Interlaken and Lake Brienz. This part of the mountain is called Chüematta: Swiss German for “Cow Meadow”.
Through the mists of time
Published in
The older I get, the more I come to recognize the way in which my photographs aid my memory. This is borne out by the way in which I can scroll back through my Lightroom catalogue of digital photos – currently topping 61,000 entries on two external hard drives, with more to be added from…
Remembering the floods from 2005
Published in
I drove through Brienz this weekend for the first time in a couple of years, and roadworks near the office where I used to work reminded me of the terrible events of August 2005. Three days of unrelenting rain washed a large amount of debris and felled wood into the lakes of the Bernese Oberland,…
Avalanches on demand
Published in
A clip from BBC series Human Planet, showing avalanche control of the mountains near Grindelwald in Switzerland.
That chill in the air
Published in
The autumn fairs may be some time away yet, but the first day of September here in the Swiss Alps has arrived with the kind of chilled air which tells me that there is snow on the mountains.
Giessbach Falls, Brienz
Published in
A long exposure photograph of the Giessbach waterfall near Brienz in full torrent.
Spring on the way
Published in
Mist rising from the lake during the early morning in Brienz, Switzerland. Photograph taken in 2005.
Winter Sunset
Published in
A tremendously colourful winter sunset in Brienz, where I used to work, looking from the small tourist village along the lake to Interlaken.
Lunchtime jaunt
Published in
There was a work car parked outside which no-one was using over lunchtime, so I decided to pinch it and drive up a random mountain road. I drove higher and higher as the road got narrower and narrower, avoiding small rocks in the road and marvelling at the panoramic view toward Meiringen in the east…
