Wrong way on the Jaunpass
Posted on Dezember 14th, 2013
Everytime when we are visiting my parents-in-law in the Emmental, it itchs in my feets to go for a night walk in the near Bernes alps. At this time I was studying the maps and photos on the internet and decided my for the Jaunpass. Not to far and I can drive by car and do my shots directly near the street, cool and easy. That was wrong! As I was up there driving over the pass, see nothing than forrest, driving back to the pass and see nothing at all. Good for me, there were some people in front of a club. I ask them, where I can get some view of the alps? They told me, I should drive on the road left hand, as far I can go. After driving between some cow meadows, the street ends in the nowhere.
Okay, I thought to me, go out snap the Backpack and go for a walk. Then I walked I while until I saw a directory. One goes to a Baederhorn and the other goes to place called alp views or something like that. As I didn’t wan’t to climb a mountain, I decided to take the other way to the vista. After walking through a forrest and crossing some meadows I ends by an alpine cabin without any special view. It was a moonless night and I couldn’t see to much of the landscape. I took some shots with 6400ISO to see, what I don’t see. But there was nothing to see at all.
Damn, I told to me, this was definitly the wrong way. Disappointed walking back to where I come from. Near a place with a farm, called Baederalp, I saw some other guys with head lights walking precisely the other way I didn’t took. Well now it was to late to go for another hour walking, because the sun will coming up in a few moments. I build up my tripod in the middle of a meadow. Some cows were looking strange and one of them was trying to eat my backpack. But after the cows were gone, I could take some shots of the morning glow at the horizon. And wow! It was not the mountain image I would take but I got a really nice shot by the early sunrise.
One year later, I took the right way up to the Baederhorn, but this is another story, which I tell you another time.
