We finally have a weekend with two days of good weather forecast, so we opt to go climbing above Kandersteg in the Ueschenen area. We've talked about this many times, but this is our first trip down.
Early train to Kandersteg, drop off an extra bag at the hotel, then walk to the gondola and up to Undere Allme (this is great steep gondola ride, with fun views of the very creatively setup klettersteig). From there we walk up and around the corner to Bärgli and then further up, up to the foot of the wall. There aren't that many folks climbing yet, so we have our choice of routes; we opt for Parallel (5a, 4c, 4b, 5b, 5b; Andrea starts). It's fun climbing, if a bit heavy on the grass, and conditions are decent aside from some of the grass/dirt bits still being a bit wet. Definitely fun to climb on water runnels again. :-)
Once up top we walk over to the abseil route and head down from there in two abseils (the 3x22m is easy to do as only two with our double rope). The second abseil is super fun and overhanging. We've stupidly not brought the real shoes with us, so we get to walk back to the base of the route in our climbing shoes (G) or barefoot (A). Once back we eat and then decide to do a bit more climbing.
Next we climb the first three pitches of King Julian (5b, 5b, 4c; Greg starts) and then repeat the fun overhanging abseil.
Pack up the stuff, back to the gondola, down to Kandersteg, and then to the hotel (same one as our first trip to Kandersteg). Shower, rest, an ok dinner in the old dining room (getting 1/2 pension was a mistake!), a walk through town, and then off to bed.
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