Winter Hike in Lenzerheide and Landwasser Viaduct in Filisur
The day before yesterday, I drove to Switzerland with the goal of visiting the Landwasser Viaduct in Filisur and St. Moritz — a trip, wild and adventurous, which was suddenly halted at the Lenzerheide Pass due to heavy snowfall, as the road was only passable with snow chains. Without chains, I parked at the edge of the forest and hiked several kilometers through the beautiful winter landscape in thick snowfall — a contrast between obstacle and beauty.
A Delayed Stop
In the early afternoon, the mountain pass reopened, allowing for a quick stop at the nearby Landwasser Viaduct in Filisur — a spectacle of nature and engineering that rounded off the day.
Clouds hanging in the valley – on the way to the Lenzerheide.
Snowy conifer forest on the slope, everything above vanishing in the snowfall.
Nothing but white, twice – trees and huts in the heavy snowfall.
A spruce barely visible through the falling snow.
Two larches laden with snow against a white sky.
Heavily laden spruces at the forest edge – the pass road was only passable with chains.
A spruce at the edge of the frame, otherwise only falling snow.
A small spruce between two large ones.
Spruce tops against a white sky.
A snowy slope, a fence, the forest edge behind – walking through the winter landscape.
A single larch in the snowy meadow.
Spruces blurring in the falling snow.
A tall spruce, its branches full of snow.
Spruces and larches thickly wrapped in fresh snow.
Snowy forest above a snowdrift.
A lone spruce in the mist, twice.
Looking up into the snowy treetops.
Clouds resting on the dark forest.
A rock face and forest with remnants of snow beneath clouds.
Forest and rock in the haze, twice.
In the afternoon, Filisur after all: the Landwasser Viaduct in the gorge.
