Züri-Oberland wall trilogy – Früetobel, Roten and Hörnli

The “Züri-Oberland conglomerate fetishists” :-) already suggested (ossi) and realized (Delta -> here) the ZO wall trilogy. I actually only planned a “duetto”, but because I was faster than expected, I ended up also adding the Hörnli at the end and so I did the trilogy as well. Not as fast as Delta and not in the winter, and not quite on the same route, but it was fun!

Like Delta I started in  Fischenthal, but instead of climbing Hasenböl, I took the regular hiking path to Orüti and Chleger into the Früetobel. For the wall I followed the path up the Früetobel Mittelsporn und Quergang nach Norden, which was nicely described by ossi, I also saw the more direct route described by Delta: Durchs Früetobel, Mittelsporn, but it seemed very interesting to walk below the impressive conglomerate walls. From the Stralegg-street near Ragenbuech I then went down to Beschten and into the Beschtentobel.

I’m not 100% sure what exact route I actually took up the Roten south wall, but I think it was most likely similar to ossi's Roten Osterweg. (I had quite an adrenalin rush during this ascent, because a tuft I stood on in very steep terrain gave way and I slid down with it a little bit…). The 10m root bolder right after the hiking path towards the summit, mentioned by Delta and ossi is indeed a lot of fun. On the summit of Roten I made a short lunch break and then walked along the marked path to Steg.

Since I missed a train by a few minutes minutes and since it was only shortly after noon, I decided to make the trilogy complete and also climb the Hörnli-"Westwand" on the same route I did here.

I walked to Lipperschwändi and then into the Nideltobel/Bärtobel. Unfortunately I didn’t quite remember which ridge I actually took the last time, so I had to search a little bit and promptly took the wrong one for a while, before I noticed.

At the restaurant up on the summit of Hörnli I drank a Rivella and a beer and then walked back down to the train station  Steg along the VV Fischenthal path.

 Fischenthal - Orüti -Chleger - Früetobel - Ragenbuech - Beschten - Beschtentobel - Roten southwall - Roten - Rütiwis - Vorderegg -  Steg - Lipperschwändi - Nideltobel - Bärtobel - Hörnli Westwand - Hörnli - Breitenweg -  Steg