Kandersteg

Planning on taking my daughter here in February mid-term. This will be her 2nd year skiing.

Anybody have any feedback?

Hamish Macbeth wrote:Planning on taking my daughter here in February mid-term. This will be her 2nd year skiing.

Anybody have any feedback?

Not very well know outside Switzerland then :D I've never skied there personally although I keep meaning to take a look. You probably already know the main facts, there's three distinct areas, the Oeschinen which is pretty low topping out at around 1800m (I think from memory), Sunnbüel which is up around 2000m which has 4 or 5 blue runs and Lauchernalp which is actually a train ride through the Lötschental tunnel. The Lauchernalp area is altogether more substantial as a ski area, it's actually in the Valais on that side of the tunnel and I have skied here, technically to here from the Jungfrau though and I've no idea what the pistes are like.

What's you plan? For her to take lessons? There's certainly more than enough skiing for a two week skier although you'd probably want to try all three areas.

In that area Gstaad and Adelboden/Lenk are also worth a look. Obviously there's Grindelwald/Wengen etc but they're not the best ski stations in the Bernese Oberland by a long way despite their popularity.

Thank you very much for your reply.

We plan to have her take some more lessons and chose Kandersteg as a family friendly resort that would make a change from our regular haunt in Niederau, Austria.

As it's only her second year we aren't really looking for extensive slopes just something easy-ish and not too crowded.

just waking this up, it's incredible scenery round Kandersteg, I took a two day hike last weekend over the Gemmipass from Kandersteg to Leukerbad and on to Adelboden.

There's photo's here :

Gemmipass - Kandersteg -> Leukerbad
Gemmipass - Leukerbad -> Adelboden

It's the summer of course and there's no snow yet but you get the idea how stunning it is round there.