The Sarotlatal is reached directly from Brand by (now) crossing the golf course and turning south. It is a beautiful walk, much of it in woods that are shady without being gloomy, and there are many Eisenhut to be seen. The Sarotlahütte itself is a very comfortable place to drink a beer, eat lunch and relax.
1 These days, you start by walking across tbe golf course and going up a slow-but-sure climb to the beginning of the Sarotlatal.
2 At first, the Sarotlaweg ascends through a piny wood.
3 The path through the woods is quite pretty.
4 Just after the first bridge, we always saw this curious flower, which -- for lack of any other name -- we called a White Bell.
5 In 2000, spring floods had carried lots of flotsam into the river course and broken up some bridges.
6 The water was still flowing quite fast.
7 This bridge was just recently rebuilt.
8 Farther up, after climbing quite a lot through the forest, one comes out onto this relatively flat plateau ..
9 ... where there are lots of Eisenhut of various colors, like these Wolf-Eisenhut.
10 Eisenhut, or MOnkshood
11 And Enzian
12 Just above the plateau, there are (usually) three waterfalls.
13 Waterfall
14 Then you start a long series of steep zigzags upwards ...
15 ... through a very pretty larch forest.
16 After what seems an interminable forest, you finally cross a creek and see the refuge ahead.
17 Sarotlatalhütte
18 Good rest
19 On the way back across the golf course, finding four-leafed clovers!
