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First goal of year ✅. I wanted to ski up Gempen and today looked possible with the recent snowfalls.. and before the rain comes to Basel and clean the bottom snow I wanted to give it a try. It was tougher than I expected 🤪.

We headed with the tram to Neuwelt and walked to the wooden bridge 🌁 crossing the Birs. There I put the skis on and started along the Birs and soon in the forest. Snow here was not abundant but enough to move on 🎿.

As soon as we started going up ⬆️ there was a bit more as well as there were fallen branches in the middle of the way caused by the snow ❄.

Once almost at Schönmatt I needed to skipped ⏭ the road, since most likely will be cleaned from snow. So, we went behind through the single trails. Indeed this was the nicest part, quite a lot of snow with some ups and down that I have to ski down ⬇️😁. After that started snowing more consistently. The landscape was WinterWonderland ☃️🤩.

We found some adventurous mountainbikers 🚵‍♂️ on the way up ⬆️ and 2 ski tourers were removing the skins when we were about to leave. On the top some hikers and other people who arrived by car.

The road was not that clean so it looked enough to snowboard 🏂 down on the road 😁 and that was fun. Unfortunatelly Switzerland 🇨🇭 is very well equipped to clean the roads when snow comes... and the main road was clean so there was time to take the bus 🚎. What a surprise when we realize that there were 100s of people going up by bus to find some fields around to sledge 🛷. Gempen looked like a ski resort today 🤔.

PS: I would repeat 😁

#Route: Neuwelt - Wooden bridge - Gempenturm - Gempen Dorf
#Schartenflue: 759m

#with Nicole
#gradientmap

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