WEISSFLUH

We took the train to Klosters and then the cable car up to Gotschnagrat (2285m) being the only passengers in an 80-person car, both up and down. The cable car goes up in two stages. We took the path (about 9 o’clock) to the Parsenhutte cable car (closed for the summer).

Casanna from Gotschnagrat 

Once again we saw large numbers of marmots and even managed to approach them to within about 5m before they disappeared. Later we caught one peeping out of its burrow, but it retreated as soon as it saw us. We only saw 7 walkers all day – the Swiss clearly do not walk in poor weather. We then climbed up a Bergweg across black shale rock to reach Weissfluhjoch (2662m), an area severely damaged by winter sports equipment and rather depressing. Everywhere was closed as the Davos Parsennbahn funicular was being rebuilt. Until about 11.30 the weather was quite good with views of summits, above the valley cloud, in every direction to the south and southeast of Davos. We decided to climb to the Weissfluhgipfel (2844m). 

Weissfluh from Gotschnagreat

Weissfluh is a bare grey rock peak with absolutely no vegetation. A marked path ascends from the Joch, sometimes cut into the rock face but in the main twisting and turning uphill. We had our lunch on the steps of the closed summit café in the mist before descending back to the Joch and then dropping down alongside the funicular to rejoin the Panoramaweg (sometimes with views but mainly foggy) to reach Gotschnagrat at just before 4p.m. At the very end of the walk we came to a signpost which gave no direction to the cable car station, and in the mist had to resort to our first ever use of a compass in Switzerland!!