From Teuffenthal to Eriz – idyllic hike through the hilly landscape

15.45 km long
Difficulty: medium
Condition: medium
Hiking Trail
  • 5:10 h
  • 15.45 km
  • 600 m
  • 830 m
  • 791 m
  • 1,411 m
  • 620 m
  • Start: Aussereriz/Losenegg
  • Destination: Sigriswil

It is hard to find more contrasting landscapes to hike through: Here the serious and stern Eriz with its deeply furrowed ravines, whose forest covers about one third of the ground area. There, the southern mild shores of Lake Thun with lush vegetation. In between, bright ridges, swampy raised bogs and constantly changing views into the hilly world of the Emmental, to Hohgant and Sigriswilgrat and across the lake into Frutigland. Longer sections of hard surface at the beginning of the route as well as around Sigriswil/Schwanden.

From the Losenegg bus stop in Aussereriz past individual farms on the small road down to the Zulg, often crossing deeply incised ravines. On the covered Koppisbrügg, it goes over the narrow Zulg ravine and immediately upwards to the shaded hillside path. Past the large farm Neuhus, one reaches the schoolhouse of Horrenbach and ascends directly over the scenic pasture ridge of Huetweid to the Hubel house. Throughout the entire ascent, you can enjoy wonderful views of the flank of Hohgant and the Burst. In Tüelboden, a forest-fringed saddle in the pasture ridge, the indistinct path is chosen, which leads straight over the ridge to Ruerwald and crosses it. In the next forest clearing, at Alp Schnabel, the path continues level along the forest road over the pastures and in a wide arc through the Tönimoos to Dünzenegg, where the view opens towards Sigriswilgrat and Schwanden.
Continuing level, you reach the mountain farm Oberi Matte and from there gently descend over pastureland and through mountain forest past the Stampf picnic area to Schwanden/Sagi. A farm road leads further to Schwanden, then a narrow path goes down into the idyllic Büelgraben. The view from the sunny terrace of Sigriswil onto the lake and the pre-Alpine peaks and firn domes of the central Bernese Oberland is magnificent.

Berner Wanderwege
Berner Wanderwege

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Pavements

Street
Trail
Path
Asphalt

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

Aussereriz/Losenegg - Horrenbach - Schwanden/Sagi - Sigriswil

Equipment

We recommend the following equipment: light trekking shoes, light backpack, sun protection, rain jacket, pocket first aid kit, light picnic, sufficient liquids, mobile phone.

Directions & Parking facilities

Arrival: By train to Thun. Then by STI bus no. 41 to Aussereriz, Losenegg stop.

Return: From Sigriswil village by STI bus no. 24 or 25 via Oberhofen to Thun.

Additional information

Bernese Hiking Trails Association, Bern, Tel.: 031 340 01 01, E-Mail: info@beww.ch, Homepage: www.bernerwanderwege.ch

Literature

Hiking suggestion from the hiking book Thunersee - Frutigland, hiking book series of the BWW

License (master data)

Safety guidelines

This route runs exclusively on signposted paths categorized as hiking trails

Map

Swisstopo hiking map 254T Interlaken 1:50,000

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Contact

From Teuffenthal to Eriz – idyllic hike through the hilly landscape
Eriz