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	The Gorge of the Aar and Its Teachings, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		The descent towards the Grimsel Hospice is very grand, owing to the enormous surfaces of smooth ice-ground rocks of the hardest gneiss, which plunge down at a very high angle for nearly a thousand feet into the curious little enclosed valley, with its two small rock-basin lakes in which the hospice is situated.
		It is, however, after passing through the narrow gorge between the hamlets of Inner and Outer Urweid, with its picturesque waterfall which the coach road passes by tunnelling under it, that we approach the most remarkable feature of the district.
		Passing along the high road, which by three great zigzags mounts up the steep ascent, the entrance to the gorge is imperceptible; and it is not till having crossed the hill and descended on the other side into the wide alluvial plain of Meiringen that the stream is again
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S529.htm (2318 words)

	Grimsel Road, Switzerland
		The Grimsel road proper, which begins at Guttanen, follows a fairly straight and gentle course up the valley for a kilometer or so, begins to climb more steeply through the forest and crosses the river on the Tschingel bridge (1,140 m/3,740ft).
		It then passes rugged fl crags and massive accumulations of debris which bear witness to the violence of the avalanches and the rushing torrents, returns by the Schwarzbrunnen bridge to the left bank (1,217 m/3,993ft) and continues around the rocky bulk of the Stäubender.
		The compensation reservoir of the Handegg I hydro-electric station is passed on the left (1,309 m/4,295ft).
	www.planetware.com /andermatt/grimsel-road-ch-ur-gr.htm (125 words)

	Aar
		It rises in the great Aar glaciers[?], in the canton of Berne[?], and west of the Grimsel Pass[?].
		It runs east to the Grimsel Hospice, and then northwest through the Hasli valley, forming on the way the magnificent waterfall of the Handegg, 46 m (151 feet), past Guttannen, and pierces the limestone barrier of the Kirchet by a grand gorge, before reaching Meiringen[?], situated in a plain.
		Near the west end of that lake it receives on the left the Kander[?], which has just before been joined by the Simme[?]; on flowing out[of the lake it passes Thun[?], and then circles the lofty bluff on which the town of Berne is built.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/aa/Aar.html (319 words)

	swissinfo Travel - Bernease Oberland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The trail leads from the Hotel Grimsel Hospiz on the pass to the Lower Aar Glacier and the backpack is the one essential piece of equipment hikers should take along if they want to better understand the geology, glaciology and climatology of the area.
		Grimsel Power is even promoting the discovery trek of Emil Feuz, despite the fact that Feuz was a vocal opponent of the company’s expansion plans.
		And Baumberger says Grimsel Power is listening closely to the lobby’s concerns about its more modest plans which would include increasing the height of the walls of the existing dams by 23 metres in order to flood more land.
	194.6.181.128 /sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=9411&sid=1327665&cKey=1031817000000 (958 words)

	Circuit of three passes, Andermatt
		The Grimsel road (No 6), built in 1891-94, which links the Bernese Oberland with Upper Valais (the Upper Rhône valley) and the Furka, starts from Innertkirchen (626 m/2,054ft), in a beautiful setting of forest and Alpine meadows, and runs up the attractive Hasli valley.
		From the Grimsel pass (2,165 m/7,013ft), the lowest of the three passes, the road runs down, with many hairpin bends, to Gletsch (1763 m/ 5784ft), in the Upper Rhône valley.
		The Furka road (improved 1960-63; 4-8 m/13-26ft wide) is the steepest of the three (10%); the stiffest gradients are mostly on the bends, and in the thinner air at this altitude they make particularly heavy demands on the engine of a car.
	www.planetware.com /andermatt/circuit-of-three-passes-ch-ur-cp.htm (331 words)

	Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
		The stage contained three tough mountain climbs, the Grimsel pass a category one climb after 40 kms and the haute category ascents of the Furken pass and the Susten pass.
		With 55 kms remaining the massive climb of the 2224 metre Susten pass was tackled, at the start of the climb Reto Bergmann was still on his own in front with a two minute lead on the peloton.
		The “Bus” passed the Susten pass summit 21 minutes down on the leaders as there was news that Vinokourov had got back on his bike, but was out of contention for the race overall.
	www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=1019 (464 words)

	christour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The last time I crossed the Grimsel Pass (7,102ft) in Switzerland, just over the summit on the descent to Oberwald, Rhone valley, I stopped to take photographs and gaze at the spectacular view of the Rhone Glacier.
		Following on from the Grimsel Pass my route through Switzerland was via Interlaken and a further detour to Grindelwald to view the Eiger and a couple more glaciers.
		The Sognefjell Pass (Norway’s highest road.) started from sea level at Skjolden, there was over nineteen miles of climbing to the summit, (4,691ft) and on the last section the bike and I were dwarfed by twenty-five feet high walls of snow.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /stephen.gilmartin/merseysidectc/christour.htm (1762 words)

	The Alps, passes and great roads
		We rode this pass once in the end of may, from the north side, and it was covered in snow.
		The pass is situated between Briancon in the north, and Château Queyras in the south, and runs through the Parc naturel regional de Queyras
		The pass is situated between the Susten pass in the north, and the Furka pass (starting in the valley of the Rhone) in the south.
	www.sylviastuurman.nl /stories/alpen/roads.php (2224 words)

	Grimsel Pass
		At the Grimsel lake you then may observe the next morning the sun rising slowly over the dome-shaped mountains.
		The serpentines are wide, and Gletsch is reached very fast, from where you then may turn to the right into the Valais county or turn left to enter the Furka pass road, which brings you up towards the Furka pass and the Rhone glacier.
		If you stay overnight on the Grimsel in one of the hotels, this excursion is highly recommended, as during the evening you will experience the mountain world with the sunset in its eternal ice and snow.
	users.skynet.be /Vereecke/Trips/grimsel_pass.htm (379 words)

	_ high Alpine passe Switzerland guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Above Münster, you enter the Obergoms region (Upper Goms), and begin to approach the high Alpine passes.
		In season, this once-grand edifice is swamped by the tide of traffic swarming up the road; it’s not worth staying here, but it is worth stopping for the breathtaking views down into the valley, and also to explore the Rhône Glacier, which fills the head of the valley to the north.
		By the end of the summer, about a third of the tunnel’s length has melted, as the glacier shifts by some 30m each year.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/guide/valais/alpinepasses.html (586 words)

	Tour in the Alps
		The pass, as beautiful as it is, probably has more carved up granite slopes than anywhere in the world -- for water works, electric works, and roads.
		Historians speculate this was the pass used by Hannibal in his invasion of Italy.
		I passed through another tunnel to be greeted by a castle fortress and the ancient village of Exilles with its stone buildings and roofs of slate.
	www.geocities.com /rayhosler/europe/europe2.html (5351 words)

	Auspuff Fetisch: Crawling Back Again
		By the time I reached the pass, I was already wearing everything I had brought with me, and considered turning around with the notion that if the weather got much worse, I could really be in for a spanking.
		I road all 5,062 feet up that pass wearing every thread I had, chest zips pulled to the choke position, and it was still nippy at the top.
		I descended from 7,103-foot Grimsel Pass to the small mountain village of Gletsch in a heavy rain that froze my face and hands.
	www.bikemag.com /columns/auspuff_fetisch/crawling_back_again/index.html (1179 words)

	Grimsel - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Grimsel, pass, 7,159 ft (2,182 m) high, S Switzerland, between the Rhône and Aare valleys.
		The Grimsel Road (built 1891-94), over the pass, connects Bern and Valais cantons.
		Alpine Passage, Pass to Pass; The Alpen-Brevet Bicycle Tour Climbs 15,500 Vertical Feet in 132 Miles...in One Day
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-grimsel.html (222 words)

	To the Schlosshotel Art Furrer Brig via Aare Gorge and Grimselpass.
		Your route passes Innertkirchen near the Aare Gorge.
		Our suggestion before you reach the pass is to visit the Grimsel Water Supply dam and the Crystal Cleft.
		The pass is closed over the win-ter months and as such travel to the Schlosshotel Art Furrer in Brig is only possible in summer.
	www.schlosshotel.ch /SchlossHotel.asp?Brig=en&hotel=Grimsel-Pass (105 words)

	KWO - Cable stayed bridge over Lake Grimsel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Raising the level of Lake Grimsel is a central element of the KWO plus investment project and the reason for building the bridge.
		Submission of the building application plans has been delayed due to the new bridge concept and separation of the application procedures of raising the dam and relocating the Grimsel pass road.
		The project is widely supported in the region due to the positive impulses to the economy and tourism and thanks to the valuable replacement and compensatory ecological measures.
	www.grimselstrom.ch /unternehmung-en/medien/mitteilung_bruecke_menn (403 words)

	GORP - The Central Passes - Biking in Switzerland
		This is the highest pass of the seven in the Alpine Star.
		As soon as you crest the Grimsel, you see the full length of the Furka stretching across the valley and then up a stack of four steep switchbacks.
		The road on the south side of this pass as far as Dongio is particularly scenic although not always downhill (especially at the end).
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/europe/switzerl/bik_pass5.htm (1225 words)

	Top 10 drives
		The Furka and Grimsel Pass is another famous Alpine road.
		The road then descends steeply into Gletsch on the other side of mountain and climbs through steep switchbacks up the Grimsel Pass then swoops by a deep blue manmade lake and on through the Hasli Valley to Meiringen, where meringues were invented.
		The whole route is one of contrast of sound colour; from the cool ice-blue glaciers, to the bright green meadows exploding with colour.
	www.expedia.co.uk /daily/stores/top10/drives.aspx?rfrr=-27651 (957 words)

	Riding the Swiss & Italian Alps
		Arrived at the Neufenen Pass mid-afternoon, and it provided a nice route to the family hotel where I would be staying in Airolo.
		This pass looms to the east of Andermatt.
		The peaks surrounding Furka cast shadows on Grimsel, but in the onboard recording one enters the son as altitude is attained.
	www.mcnews.com /mcn/board/Topic20883-7-1.aspx (2190 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		The Grimsel Pass is on the road that goes from Andermatt to the Rhone valley.
		The Grimsel Pass is one of the most spectacular passes you will see in the Alps.
		The Grimsel Pass connects the Bernese Oberland (Interlaken, Meiringen) and the Rhone Valley (Gletsch, Brig).
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34613298&numresponses=6&start=0 (735 words)

	MadMarmot - Adventure Cruises Through Europe
		The Grimsel pass into Bern, where the smooth granite domes and concrete hydroelectric plants leave you thinking you should have on a NASA space suite.
		Grimsel Pass is in the Bern region of Switzerland and has the following activities:
		Road Biking, Rock Climbing, Grimsel Pass is one of the best places to learn to climb.
	www.madmarmot.com /index.php?destination=TRUE&id=57 (169 words)

	Grimsel Pass (mt. 2165) da Innertkirchen
		Con la salita del Grimsel Pass si conclude il "trittico alpino svizzero" che ci ha visti percorrere - nell'ordine - il Furka Pass ed il Susten Pass: inevitabile quindi patire un poco la stanchezza sul Grimsel, soprattutto se la giornata è di quelle torride.
		Susten Pass ci troviamo nella piazza principale di Innertkirchen, a soli 622 metri di quota.
		Gli ultimi tornanti prima del passo consentono infatti di godere di uno spettacolo unico sui laghi sottostanti: l'arrivo sul Grimsel Pass (km 26, mt 2165) è quasi in falsopiano, il traffico turistico è molto sostenuto e ci si può rifocillare in uno dei numerosi bar-locande.
	www.salitomania.it /grimselinn_ita.htm (554 words)

	The Alps - From Stein To The Grimsel
		The Alps - From Stein To The Grimsel
		The day was far spent, the region was wild and lonely, when, beset by that feeling which has often caused me to wander singly in the Alps, I broke away from my companions, and went rapidly down the glacier.
		After descending the ice for some time I struck the bounding rocks, and, climbing the mountain obliquely, found myself among the crags which lie between the Grimsel pass and the Rhone glacier.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/alps-15.shtml (1569 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		The road up to the Grimsel pass (2165 m) is practically one curve followed by the other.
		The descent of the Grimsel on the Rhonegletscher side is equally winding, but with good tires, and, particuclarly, a manual transmsission, you can control your descent quite well.
		Though, as Ingo remarks, the Susten pass is the easiest one of the four considered, I still think it unwise to attempt it at the end of a day after having driven a total of 211 miles from Garmisch to the foot of the pass.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34519555&numresponses=15&start=0&screen_name=TwoTravelers (1659 words)

	VA : Grimsel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The title page, taken from the Furka Pass, shows Grimsel to the right, Furka to the left and foreground, with the embryo River Rhone running in between.
		The 2nd picture on this page is the reverse of that view - Furka Pass in the background to the right, Grimsel in the foreground, the Rhone Glacier between the two in the middle of the picture.
		The north side near the summit is also very dramatic, with the summit lake still mostly ice when we crossed in early July.
	www.aukadia.net /alps/grim1.htm (131 words)

	KWO - Part 3: Raising the Dams at Lake Grimsel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Resiting the Grimsel pass road and building a new suspension bridge from the Grimel Nollen to the existing pass road.
		Raising the dams will cost around 170 million Swiss francs, the resiting of hte Grimsel pass road appx.
		The initial plans for the raising of the dams, resiting the pass road and construction of the bridge have been drawn up.
	www.grimselstrom.ch /unternehmung-en/kwo_plus/kwo_plus_teil_3 (249 words)

	2006 Paragliding World Cup Fiesch, Switzerland
		Only when I repeatedly saw the snake of fog while hiking around the Furka pass did I realize what is happening there: The heated-up Goms sucks the humid and cold air from the Hasli valley into the Wallis.
		South and southwest winds can slow down or block the Grimsel wind to the point where it is much weaker or even barely noticeable.
		Further to the west the Bise drops across the Lötschen and the Gemmi pass, but the area around Visp and Sierre is always affected by valley wind, at times very strongly so.
	pwc.fly-aletsch.net /CMS_e/index.php?page=361455191&f=1&i=1454684329&s=361455191 (1412 words)

	1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aar - Wikisource
		It runs E. to the Grimsel Hospice, and then N.W. through the Hasli valley, forming on the way the magnificent waterfall of the Handegg (151 ft.), past Guttannen, and pierces the limestone barrier of the Kirchet by a grand gorge, before reaching Meiringen, situated in a plain.
		Near the west end of that lake it receives on the left the Kander, which has just before been joined by the Simme; on flowing out of the lake it passes Thun, and then circles the lofty bluff on which the town of Bern is built.
		It soon changes its north-westerly for a due westerly direction, but after receiving the Saane or Sarine (left) turns N. till near Aarberg its stream is diverted W. by the Hagneck Canal into the Lake of Bienne, from the upper end of which it issues through the Nidau Canal and then runs E. to Büren.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Aar (403 words)

	Romantic Route Express: Swisstravelsystem, Swiss Travel System, Swiss Federal Railways, SBB, STS, Switzerland, Travel ...
		Leave the Reuss Valley and climb breathtaking mountain roads till the Postbus reaches the Furka Pass (2431 m a.s.l.) before coming down into Gletsch on the other side.
		Steep switchbacks bring the bus to the Grimsel Pass (2165 m a.s.l.), then swoops by a deep blue manmade lake and on through the Hasli Valley to Meiringen, where the world-famous meringues, this airy confection of sugar and egg whites, were invented.
		Supplement to the Swiss Pass, Swiss Youth Pass and Swiss Flexi Pass of CHF 20.— per person.
	www.swisstravelsystem.ch /Romantic_Route_Expre.48.0.html?&L=2 (293 words)

	A Journey Through Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Furka Pass is where the mighty Rhone River is born out of a huge glacier.
		After lunch it was back on our bikes and a climb up the Grimsel Pass (2165 M) and back down to the campground.
		They are narrow, tight steep twisties surrounded by snow covered mountains, unlighted tunnels with hairpin turns in the tunnels, insignificant guardrails and restaurants at the tops of the passes.
	www.womanbiker.com /switztrip.php3 (651 words)

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