Clear views on the Uetliberg

Inspired by ABoehlen’s Fernsichten vom Gurten, I hiked up to Zurich’s “Hausberg” the Uetliberg, not only to enjoy the excellent panorama on a clear day but also to look for some far away mountains on the horizon.

For my route up to the Uetlibrg I started at  Sood-Oberleimbach and first followed the path towards Baldern. As one probably could anticipate from 360, I didn’t just follow the T1/”Autobahn” up to the Uetliberg, but was looking for a not-so-easy alternative route.

This time I left the path right at a prominent “Schrebergarten” on the left hand side shortly before Leimbihof. I walked up towards a little chalet like hut. Instead of going all the way to the “chalet” I went into the forest on the right and then followed the ridge, which takes you up to a fireplace built by the city of Adliswil. The ridge is not very distinct at the beginning but the higher up you climb the steeper and clearer it gets. Some little sandstone rocks offer short and easy climbing occasions (I, maybe an easy II at most), but in case you don’t feel like it you can easily bypass these rocks left or right. The whole ridge is probably only a T3+, but since it was very wet and extremely slippery I give it a T4. From the fireplace I followed the “Autobahn” coming from Felsenegg going to the Uetliberg.

After an extensive study of the panorama and foto session on the tower of the Uetliberg Kulm, I walked to the train stop  Uetliberg and took the SZU back home.


The visibility was excellent and I discovered a mountain on the horizon, which I haven’t seen before from the Uetliberg,: Piz Linard, the highest mountain in the hikr-maker land – Hello Anna and Stani from Zurich :-)