Murren Easy hikes!

The classic Mannlichen to Kleine Scheidegg is pretty easy. It's mostly flat along a wide well worn path with jaw dropping views. You'd take the train to Grutschalp, gondola down to Lauterbrunnen, cog train up to Wengen, another gondola up to Mannlichen. Then you'd walk across to Kleine Scheidegg and cog train back down to Wengen and reverse the process. It's easier than it sounds.

I've also done the walk down from Almendhubel to Muerren and that was pretty easy. Take the funicular up to Almendhubel. Part of it is paved. We kind of got off onto a side trail which I thought was fine. An actual trail and not very wide but not particularly steep. At the funicular stop there is a very short wildflower loop as well.

There is also a very flat trail from Grutschalp to Muerren which I think parallels the small train that goes along there. I've not done that one so no personal experience.

We had a pole break and rented two poles from the Mountain store in Wengen, it was cheap and so glad had two poles for what turned out to be a painful downhill trek (Romantik trail). Easy: Mannlichen to Klein Scheidegg. Lauterbrunnen Valley (flat). Many others, look on this board and people will give you easy and tough. Also the hiking map for the Lauterbrunnen Valley is online, you can download. Beware though, the times listed for doing the hikes are (as many have said and we know from experience) are more than what it says. For example, if the hike says 1.5 hours, for those of us over 60 that don’t ski race, lol, it’s probably more like 2.3. The rule of thumb many use is add at least 1/3 the posted time. But research your hikes. Though we have been in the BO many times we decided to try this Romantik hike last year, thought it was along a ridge line, which it was but it was also like thousands in elevation drop. Needed toes and knees of steel, which we didn’t have and paid for that hike for days. Research! I don’t have the link handy but someone will. There was a whole write up by a nice guy here on many of the hikes there.

Forum member shoe put together a great guide to hiking in the berner oberland area. You can take a look here and see which walks sound doable for you.

https://lauterbrunnenhiking.wordpress.com/

Another thing you can do too is just walk around Murren and Wengen. You don’t necessarily have to do a big hike. And when I was in Switzerland this past Sept., we took the cable car from wengen to Mannlichen and just spent a couple of hours up on Mannlichen with the cows and then took the cable car back down to wengen. We also really enjoyed walking around down in Lauterbrunnen. You can just walk as far as you want and turn around or catch the bus.

Age has no relevance IF you are in relatively good shape and you hike at home. You may attempt the very picturesque North Face trail on the Mürren side of the valley, accessed by the Allmendhubel funicular. We met a Swiss hiker in his 80s on that trail who came from Zurich for the day just to hike. Spectacular views of the Eiger, Münch, and Jungfrau. We are old, and slow hikers…who take time to appreciate the flowers and views. At home we use trekking poles, so we do hike with them in Switzerland. Do not use poles if you normally hike without them.
Or… you could just take the funicular and have lunch at Allmendhubel and stroll the ½ mile flower trail….mainly for the views at the top.
You could also walk (not a hike) from Mürren to Gimmelwald, and then ride the cable car back to Mürren.

I’m doing research today for my own trip and came across another easy one for you:

The walk from Kleine Scheidegg to Wengeralp. Only 1.4 miles with no uphill. You can take the train to Kleine Scheidegg, walk to Wengeralp, then take the train to wengen and down to Lauterbrunnen.

This trail is mentioned in “Walking in Switzerland’s Berner Oberland” by forum member laurel barton. You can buy it on amazon.