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Like Sunday this was unfinished business, we’d set out to traverse the Hundsrügg a while back but some pretty violent thunderstorms made the ridge look unappealing so we didn’t make it. It’s actually a fair way as well, about 18km and a 1000m of ascent so that would have been a bit dire with lightning hitting the ridge around you. Yesterday I’d an early appointment in Fribourg so it made sense to go straight on to the Jaunpass and do this route.


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Chalet du Soldat is located near the Jaunpass which is a favourite local area of mine. It’s basically pre-alpes and not far from Gstaad and close by La Berra where we were at the weekend. Today I was on my own and I was interested to go and see the Chalet du Soldat. The chalet used to be called the chalet du Régiment until 2007 when they changed the name to Chalet du Soldat.

The original chalet was built in 1945 by the “Régiment d’Infanterie 7″, a unit of the Swiss Army, and originally called “Chalet du Soldat de Fribourg” before changing to “chalet du Régiment” in 1952. There’s an interesting history in French on the internet, L’histoire du Chalet du Soldat.

The chalet is open weekends in the winter with accommodation and in the summer, right now it’s closed until June 1st so I’m expecting it to be nice and quiet. My plan is to walk up there and have a picnic lunch outside the chalet.


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Jaunpass is a small ski station on the Jaun Pass in Bern, in winter it’s has three drag lifts only. We intended to do a quick tour around the Bäderhorn as we’d started out at around 2pm.

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