Murgseen SG Hike. (Murg Lakes - Walensee Area) Time - 5 1/2 hours, Distance - 23.71 Km, Uphill - 900m, Downhill - 900m

The road up from Murg is ‘interesting’ especially if you meet something coming down. If forestry workers wave to you, don’t wave back, but stop. When we went up, they were felling trees and while they are transporting the trunks across the road hanging vertically from a wire rope high above the ground they very wisely stopped all the traffic (us).

The circular route we took started from the lower parking place P1. (Buy the Fr.8.00 parking ticket at the machine lower down the road.) The track is signposted, well-marked and well-walked. It is not difficult hiking as long as there is no snow around. The first part is uphill, rocky and fairly steep, which helps to get some of the altitude difference out of the way! The flatter parts across meadows and moor are relaxing and the babbling of the water (no other sound to be heard) is super background music. The last 100m gain in altitude had some snow around, but we could avoid it by walking ‘beside’ the track. The Murgseefurggel affords a lovely view down over the upper lake and it is but a short descent to the Restaurant which offers a luxury stop as a reward for the effort so far. From then on it is downhill more or less all the way. The waterfalls and the sound of the water compensate for the path, which is, for hiking purposes, too wide! Originally it was the route for the miners, then for the builders of the dam, later the fishermen and the alpine farmers, and, these days, for hikers, hobby fishermen and other nature-lovers.
It is a great walk and, for a change, we saw the Churfirsten from the Walensee side!

This hike has also been described in another Thread and it is interesting to compare the varying reports.