Snowshoers and winter hikers welcome
The Engadin St. Moritz region owes its world-famous beauty not least to the unique lake plateau. A hike across the three frozen lakes in winter is utterly awesome.

The Morteratsch glacier trail is quite different. It leads hikers directly to the glacier tongue of the third longest glacier in the Eastern Alps. In winter, the path is also patrolled just before the glacier tongue. Always in view: the imposing Bernina Group. A nature trail with information boards informs about the retreat of the glacier. The starting point is the Bernina Railway Station and the Hotel Morteratsch.

The landscape on the Muottas Muragl, which can be reached by funicular railway, is even more different. Far-reaching views of the four-thousand-metre Bernina massif, deep views of the lake district and spiritual flights of fancy on the Philosophers' Trail - all this awaits snowshoe hikers on the popular Upper Engadine lookout mountain. In addition to a quotation from Albert Einstein, nine other markings with sayings by famous thinkers such as Socrates or Sartre mark the first part of the trail. 

Following the ridge of the Val Champagna, the Plaun dals Müls plain is reached. Half of the three-kilometre trail has already been completed here. Through the Val Muragl - the Bernina Group and the lake plate frozen to ice in front of our eyes - we return to the mountain hotel.

Pictures: Switzerland Tourism and St. Moritz Tourismus AG

Realised by Roland Baumgartner
www.bgr.ch

 


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Arrival:
With the RhB to Morteratsch rsp. Punt Muragl. Parking in Morteratsch rsp. at the valley station of the Muottas Muragl cable car.

Another tip:
Hikes on the frozen lakes between St. Moritz and Maloja.