Pure Emmental

One is tempted to say: a spectacularly unspectacular route that lets you feel the vastness and silence of the Emmental. Nevertheless, or perhaps precisely because of this, this part of the Napf is a popular hiking area. Only when the Lüderenchilbi with the eponymous wrestling festival takes place every few years is there activity on the Lüderenalp. On the heights, outside the forested areas, with clear views you can see the Jura, the Pre-Alps with the Schrattenflue or the Hohgant, the high Alps or neighboring heights in the Emmental like the Blasenflue or Howacht. The variety of hiking options on the signpost at the starting point of the hike is surprising. Here, follow the signpost direction Hohmattgätterli. First briefly on a forest road, then via a path or field path, mostly traversing the ridge through forest and meadows to the Hohmattgätterli. Here, turn right towards Schynen. Sections on a narrow path through forest and over meadows, often on the crest, continue to characterize the route. At Zinggestall, the descent begins, where you turn right onto a field path towards Schynen. At Schynenalp, head towards Imperech until the next signpost, where the destination Gmünden is now indicated. The end of the hike, the bus stop Gohl, Gmünden, is reached past the farms Ober- and Unter Sieberli.