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Mountain railways inclusive… …with the second overnight stay in labelled hotels Info on page 5

MOUNTAINGUIDE Mountain railways summer offers for 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS A NEW PARADISE EVERY DAY

MOUNTAINS 04 Mountain railways and Impressive mountain flanks form a guard of honour in public transportation inclusive 4 Corvatsch 6 order to allow nature and guests to pass through the sun- Piz Nair 10 Diavolezza 14 drenched expanse of the 70 km long high-mountain Muottas Muragl and Alp Languard 18 Rates and operational data 22 valley. If you follow the call of the mountains and allow

yourself to be carried up by the mountain railways, you ACTIVITIES 24 Hiking 25 Alpinism 29 will encounter impressive treats as soon as you step out Mountain adventures 33 Mountain bike 35 of the gondola: countless paradises between the highest

peaks of the Eastern , glaciers and lakes which can FAMILIES 38 Children’s day 39 Family ticket 39 be conquered by hiking and biking. Thirteen funicular Children’s playgrounds 40 Fairytale Trail/Furtschellas Petting Zoo 39 railways, chair lifts and gondola lifts ease the way to

the destination. This not only appeals to the energy EVENTS 42 Top events 43 Calendar of events 44 balance. There is also more time to get to know the

menus of the mountain restaurants and to discover the MOUNTAIN 46 Mountain dining 47 GASTRONOMY Mountain restaurants 48 mountain world with the offers from Piz Nair, Corvatsch,

Diavolezza and Muottas Muragl. A variety of tips and MOUNTAIN 50 Berghotel Muottas Muragl 51 ACCOMMODATIONS Berghaus Diavolezza 52 suggestions are available on the following pages for Sunrise tour 53 this purpose. A good prerequisite for enjoying the

SERVICES 54 Animals in the Engadine 54 hospitality in a different natural paradise every day! Plants in the Engadine 56 ENGADINcard 58 Contact 58 IMPRINT: Publisher: St. Moritz Mountain Pool; Concept and design: A-typisch Grafik- Engadin Bus 59 Design Werbung, Bregenz; Photos: Robert Bösch, Max Weiss, Alex Buschor, Engadin Bus, Stefan Hunziker, Schweizerischer Nationalpark – Hans Lozza, Andrea Badrutt, Alexandra Stocker, Daniel Martinek, ENGADIN St. Moritz Mountain Pool; Text: Heidi Dübendorfer, Claudia Berke; Panoramas: A. Rohweder. Subject to changes in price and services: © March 2010, ENGADIN St. Moritz Mountain Pool 2 3 MOUNTAIN RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANS PORTATION INCLUSIVE

Mountain railway and round of cappuccino is possible or you set Moreover, some of the hotels offer holiday Date/validity mountains inclusive your sights on the next higher summit. In guests free utilisation of public trans- - 01.05. - 31.10.10 It is worthwhile to stay longer in about 90 fact, the ticket allows direct access to the portation in the valley. Information & Booking Engadine hotels. In addition to the restful gondola – without having to stand in line (Validity: Cinuos-chel / Brail–Maloja-So- Engadin St. Moritz mountain slumber, all 13 facilities of the at the ticket window! glio, St. Moritz–Alp Grüm, –Pon- Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz mountain railways and partially the public tresina, Bever–Spinas and partially also Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 01 transportation are also inclusive with the Mountain railways Bergell-) [email protected] second overnight stay. - Suvretta–Randolins, St. Moritz Suvretta www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/inclusive - St. Moritz Bad-Signal, St. Moritz Scope of services/comments The ticket comes directly - St. Moritz Dorf–Chantarella–Corviglia– - Hotel overnights, including free use of to the guest Piz Nair, St. Moritz mountain railways and partially the Actually you should say goodbye to impa- - Celerina–Marguns, Celerina public transportation tience during the holidays. But the - Marguns–Trais Fluors, Celerina - With the 2nd overnight stay “Mountain Railway Inclusive Ticket” is of - Silvaplana–Surlej–Murtèl–Corvatsch, - Only in “Mountain Railway Inclusive” benefit to those who cannot wait to stand Silvaplana–Surlej hotels next to the summit cross. The mountain - Sils–Furtschellas, Sils www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/inclusive railway ticket is already handed over duri- - Bernina Diavolezza–Diavolezza, Price example (CHF) ng check-in at the hotel. As a result, on - Pontresina–Alp Languard, Pontresina - 3 nights in a three-star hotel, the next mountain day either an extra - Punt Muragl–Muottas Muragl, Samedan starting at 250.– per person

4 5 CORVATSCH

Whoever would like to explore the scenic beauties Hiking: 3 tips Theme trails: 2 tips of the Upper Engadine by foot will get their money’s Corvatsch Panorama Trail: Proceed The Waterway Trail links the six idyllic worth at Corvatsch. A vast number of worthwhile leisurely over aromatic alpine meadows and mountain lakes – the “Lejins” – on a hikes lead from Sils, Silvaplana, St. Moritz or flourishing summer pastures. An easy hike comfortable and easily passable hiking Pontresina towards and around the Corvatsch region. leads from the Corvatsch halfway station to trail in the Furtschellas mountain area. Soon enough one moves above the forest line and the Furtschellas top station. The Osteria Via Gastronomica: Combine culinary enjoys splendid views of glaciers and lakes. The trail Rabgiusa invites you to stay awhile at the delights with a panorama view. You start via Fuorcla Surlej down into and back to halfway point. Fuorcla Surlej – Pontresina: at the Furtschellas top station for a Pontresina is a special experience. The mountain Trek up into the glacier world. The approxi- 3-course menu, e.g. with a fine summer with its fragrant herb meadows can be mately four-hour, easily passable hiking trail “Furtschellas-Plättli”. After that the hike particularly enjoyed in dreamy Val Fex. Val Fex is leads via Fuorcla Surlej down towards Pont- proceeds to the next restaurant. Different accessible from the Furtschellas top station via Alp resina, and features a view of the majestic routes can be selected for the culinary Munt or Marmoré. The “Waterway Trail”, a leisurely . Refreshments are available trail from the Furtschellas top station to 2 1/2 hour hike which leads past six idyllic mountain at Hotel Roseggletscher. Furtschellas – Val Val Fex and further towards Sils. lakes, also offers unforgettable impressions. Starting Fex – Sils Maria: The hike leads past the point: Furtschellas top station. Whether sportive cool mountain lake Lej Sgrischus via Alp Audio tour: 1 tip and performance-oriented or for desire and Munt down into the idyllic Fex Valley. A bit Waterway Trail Audio Tour: During the pleasure, every interest finds a suitable route in of stamina is needed for the five-hour hike. hike you can listen per iPod to the history the Corvatsch hiking area. of the lakes and fairylike stories, and Operating times Corvatsch - Station Surlej immerse with all senses in the mountain Aerial cable car Surlej – Corvatsch world. 19.06. – 17.10.10 08:25 – 17:05 every 20 minutes 10.07. – 21.08.10 08:25 – 17:25 every 20 minutes

Contact/Information Operating times Corvatsch - Station Sils Corvatsch AG Aerial cable car Sils – Furtschellas 7513 Silvaplana 19.06. – 17.10.10 Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 73 73 08:30 –17:05 every 30 minutes [email protected] 10.07. – 21.08.10 www.corvatsch.ch 08:30 – 17:25 every 30 minutes 6 7 CORVATSCH

8 9 PIZ NAIR

The “Black Peak” and its sporty neighbours: hikers Hiking: 3 tips Biking: 2 tips love the mountains and the energy of alpine nature. Marguns – Corviglia: Even children Marguns – Glüna – Corviglia – St. Moritz: There is more than enough of this in the Piz Nair, manage the walk from Marguns to the The route from Marguns via the Glüna Corviglia and Marguns region: a view which extends Corviglia in two hours. Good footwear base station, Lej Alv, Corviglia, Suvretta over the Upper Engadine lake district almost to is recommended. Piz Nair – Corviglia: Pass to Champfèr clearly cannot be Maloja on nice days, scenery comprised of green bowls, A moderate 2 1/2 hour hike from Piz Nair managed without the joy in mountain mountain streams and lakes, and a kaleidoscope via Lej da la Pêsch to the Corviglia top biking and a demanding downhill ride. of possibilities to wander through the alpine world station. Panorama Trail: Fantastic views Suvretta Loop: The big tour from the with hiking shoes or per bike. Athletic cyclists will unfurl between Marguns, Chamanna Corviglia top station below Piz Nair, up to find a veritable highlight along the route from the Saluver, Piz Padella and Samedan within Suvretta Pass, Alp Suvretta, Spinas and Corviglia top station to Suvretta Pass via Val Bever three to four hours. back to Celerina takes four to five hours to Celerina. And with a little consideration all and especially demands riding ability. species can still get past each other: even the downhill riders on Trottinetts (scooters) set their Operating times Suvretta sights more on enjoyment than on racing during Chair lift Suvretta – Randolins their ride from Marguns to Celerina. 26.06. – 12.09.10 08:30 – 12:15 / 13:15 – 16:45

Contact/Information Operating times Signal Operating times Piz Nair Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG Aerial cable car St. Moritz Bad – Signal Aerial cable car Corviglia – Piz Nair Via San Gian 30 12.06. – 17.10.10 26.06. – 10.10.10 7500 St. Moritz 08:30 – 17:00 every 30 minutes 08:50 – 16:50 every 20 minutes Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 : x:30 and x:00 / : x:40 and x:10 [email protected] Operating times Marguns www.engadin.stmoritz.ch Operating times Corviglia Gondola lift Celerina – Marguns St. Moritz Dorf - Chantarella 26.06. – 10.10.10 Piz Nair 26.06. – 10.10.10 08:00 – 17:00 AG Luftseilbahn Corviglia-Piz Nair 08:20 – 17:20 every 20 minutes 7500 St. Moritz (Last mountain ascent to Piz Nair: 16:00) Operating times Trais Fluors Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 43 44 Chantarella - Corviglia Chair lift Marguns – Trais Fluors [email protected] 26.06. – 10.10.10 14.07. – 01.09.10 www.piznair-stmoritz.ch 08:30 - 17:10 every 20 minutes Only Wed.: 08:15 – 11:45 / 13:15 – 16:45 10 11 PIZ NAIR

12 13 DIAVOLEZZA

Where the true high mountains start! Hiking: 3 tips Operating times Diavolezza The Engadine Valley lies almost 2,000 metres Diavolezza – Sass Queder: The tour on Aerial cable car Diavolezza above sea level. Here the mountains must even rise the nearby summit takes just 45 minutes. 31.05. – 11.06.10 into the sky in order to appear high. The Bernina Diavolezza – Munt Pers: The hike from 09:00 – 12:00 / 13:00 – 17:00 massif vis-à-vis the Diavolezza shows true enormity the Diavolezza top station to the Munt every 30 minutes in this connection. It towers impressively above the Pers lookout point is easy. The Senda dal scenery with eight peaks ranging up to about the Diavel is assigned to the type “alpine 12.06. – 25.06.10 four thousand metre mark: a veritable feast for hiking” because of climbing passages and 08:30 – 17:00 every 30 minutes the eyes and an El Dorado for climbers and alpine airy positions but also because you can mountaineers. But in addition to the declared top spend 5 hours in the high alpine setting of 26.06. – 27.08.10 destinations Piz Palü and , the high the Bernina area. Ascent is via Lej Collinas 08:30 – 17:30 every 30 minutes mountain region from the pivotal Diavolezza can – East Ridge of Munt Pers – Berghaus (from 10:00 – 15:00 also be experienced in another way: during a glacier Diavolezza. Only for experienced hikers! every 20 minutes) hike across the tongue of the Pers & Morteratsch Glaciers — on the 500 treading steps of the Mountain adventures: 2 tips 28.08. – 24.09.10 fixed-rope climbing route (Via Ferrata) or during Climbing path: The entry to Via Ferrata / 08:30 – 17:00 every 30 minutes a wellness experience at Europe’s highest Jacuzzi. Piz Trovat is only 20 minutes away and is (26.06. - 05.09.10 from 10:00 – 15:00 also suitable for less experienced climbers every 20 minutes) because of the treading steps and the safety cable. However, surefootedness, a good 25.09. – 19.11.10 head for heights and knowledge of clim- 08:30 – 12:00 / 13:00 – 16:30 bing are a prerequisite. Equipment can be every 30 minutes rented at the base station. Glacier hike: Moraines and glacier tables, ice cracks and crevasses: these natural phenomena Contact/Information can be viewed up close in the course of Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG this guided day tour (see page 25). Via San Gian 30 7500 St. Moritz Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 [email protected] www.engadin.stmoritz.ch 14 15 DIAVOLEZZA

16 17 MUOTTAS MURAGL | ALP LANGUARD

Something for the heart … and for the feet. Hiking: 3 tips Operating times Muottas Muragl Not only artists have been inspired since time Muottas Muragl – Punt Muragl: The easy Funicular immemorial by the view from the classic mountain. route down to the base station can be done Punt Muragl – Muottas Muragl People like us are also captivated over and over in 1½ hours. Muottas Muragl – Segantini 12.06. – 17.10.10 again by the setting. Alone the ascent with the red Hut: The ascent is managed in nearly 08:10 – 17:40 every 30 minutes funicular is a show. For over 100 years it has climbed two hours. But do not set out under any ATTENTION: up the steep slope and is the second oldest mountain circumstances without good footwear. Throughout the entire summer season railway in the Graubünden region. Some come to Muottas Muragl – Fuorcla Muragl – La there will be a reduced catering offer enjoy and have a feast, while others want to hike Punt: Good physical condition and sure- due to renovations at Berghotel into the panorama, either down to Pontresina or up footedness are required for this tour, Muottas Muragl. to the Segantini Hut and Schafberg, where the which takes a solid 6 hours with the aid of famous Italian painter Giovanni Segantini died in mountain cable cars. Operating times Alp Languard seclusion. But the mountain is not only the starting Chair lift Alp Languard point for family excursions, but also for vigorous Wildlife: Pontresina – Alp Languard tours. For instance, you can proceed via Fuorcla Those who are lucky cannot only see 05.06. – 17.10.10 Muragl into Val Prüna towards La Punt — a proper marmots in the 4-hour wildlife observation 08:30 – 17:30 day march. Whoever starts from Alp Languard can tour. The guides direct the route depending even hike down via Fuorcla Pischa into the peace on the whereabouts of the animals, and also and quiet of Val dal Fain. know where chamois and ibex graze. The meeting point is the base station of the Alp Contact/Information Languard chair lift; every Friday with any Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG weather. Advance reservation is required by Via San Gian 30 17:00 on the previous day. For more detailed 7500 St. Moritz information, Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 83 00 Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 [email protected] www.engadin.stmoritz.ch

Sesselbahn Alp Languard AG 7504 Pontresina Tel.: +41 (0)81 842 62 55 [email protected] 18 19 MUOTTAS MURAGL | ALP LANGUARD

20 21 RATES AND OPERATIONAL DATA

CORVIGLIA - SIGNAL - CELERINA - MARGUNS1 CORVATSCH AG ENGADINE HIKING PASS PIZ NAIR - SUVRETTA 26.06. - 10.10.10 19.06. - 17.10.10 Valid on all open facilities, including CHF CHF CHF CHF CHF CHF CHF public transportation (PT) ST. MORITZ DORF - CHANTARELLA1 Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– STATION SURLEJ CHF 26.06. - 10.10.10 Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– 1st SECTION 2 days Adults (18+) 68.– Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– SURLEJ - MURTÈL Youths (13-17) 46.– Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– Adults (16+) 33.– 24.– 17.– Children (6-12) 23.– Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– MARGUNS - TRAIS FLUORS2 Children (6-15) / half-fare/GA 16.50 12.– 8.50 14.07. - 01.09.10 (every Wednesday) 3 days Adults (18+) 100.– CHANTARELLA - CORVIGLIA1 CHF CHF 2nd SECTION Youths (13-17) 67.– 26.06. - 10.10.10 Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– MURTÈL - CORVATSCH Children (6-12) 34.– Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– Adults (16+) 18.– 13.– 10.– Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– Children (6-15) / half-fare/GA 9.– 6.50 5.– 4 days Adults (18+) 130.– Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– Youths (13-17) 87.– DIAVOLEZZA2 SURLEJ – CORVATSCH Children (6-12) 44.– ST. MORITZ DORF - CHANTARELLA - 31.05. – 19.11.10 (2 sections) CORVIGLIA1 CHF CHF Adults (16+) 40.– 29.– 20.– 5 days Adults (18+) 157.– 26.06. – 10.10.10 Adults (18+) 33.– 24.– Children (6-15) / half-fare/GA 20.- 14.50 10.- Youths (13-17) 105.– Adults (18+) 40.– 20.– Youths (13-17) 22.– 16.– Ascent & descent, incl. lunch 45.- Children (6-12) 53.– Youths (13-17) 24.– 12.– Children (6-12) 11.– 8.– Ascent & descent, incl. lunch Children (6-12) 12.– 6.– and incl. half-fare/GA 35.- 6 days Adults (18+) 182.– MUOTTAS MURAGL2 Youths (13-17) 122.–

ST. MORITZ DORF - CHANTARELLA - 12.06. – 17.10.10 STATION SILS Children (6-12) 62.– CORVIGLIA - PIZ NAIR CHF CHF SILS – FURTSCHELLAS 26.06. – 10.10.10 Adults (18+) 30.– 21.– Adults (16+) 24.– 17.– 13.– PT area of validity: all routes in the Upper Engadine, Adults (18+) 60.– 30.– Youths (13-17) 20.– 14.– Children (6-15) / Adult half-fare/GA 12.– 8.50 6.50 incl. Maloja-Cinuos-chel / Brail, Samedan-Pontresina, Youths (13-17) 36.– 18.– Children (6-12) 10.– 7.– Ascent & descent, incl. lunch 29.- St. Moritz-Alp Grüm, Bever-Spinas Children (6-12) 18.– 9.– Reductions: 1) Sports gear (bikes, paragliders) CORVATSCH HIKING TICKET no reduction for holders of half-fare cards.

CORVIGLIA - PIZ NAIR and dogs (> 30 cm) at children’s rate Juniors & Grandchildren Cards will not be 26.06. – 10.10.2010 2) Dogs (> 30 cm) and paragliders at children’s rate CHF recognised. Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– Surlej - Murtèl - Furtschellas Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– ALP LANGUARD Adults (16+) 28.– SEASON TICKETS FOR DOGS & BIKES Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– 05.06. – 17.10.10 Children (6-15) / half-fare/GA 14.– Bike (valid only for Corviglia or Piz Nair region) CHF CHF CHF Dog or bike 98.– ST. MORITZ BAD - SIGNAL1 Adults (18+) 22.– 15.– Surlej - Corvatsch - Murtèl Valid and available only at the 12.06. – 17.10.10 Youths (13-17) 15.– 10.– Adults (16+) 34.– Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– Children (6-12) 9.– 5.– Children (6-15) / half-fare/GA 18.– Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– CORVIGLIA REGION BIKE DAILY & WEEKLY Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– MUOTTAS MURAGL - ALP LANGUARD CABLE CARS SUMMER PASS TICKETS (without Piz Nair); see p. 37 HIGH-ALTITUDE TRAIL Valid for the entire summer season Data carrier (ENGADINcard) sales price: CHF 10.-. SUVRETTA2 12.06. - 17.10.10 CHF The card is not reusable. Repurchase only if it 26.06. - 12.09.10 CHF Adults (18+) 310.– is neither signed nor damaged and is returned to Adults (18+) 20.– 10.– Adults (18+) 30.– Youths (13-17) 208.– an issuing office within 72 hours after expiry of Youths (13-17) 12.– 6.– Youths (13-17) 20.– Children (6-12) 103.– the booked ticket. Children (6-12) 6.– 3.– Children (6-12) 10.– 22 23 ACTIVITIES HIKING

Small moments become great adventures between Via Gastronomica - Starter or breakfast: Bergrestaurant Culinary delights at every step of the way. La Chüdera the glaciers and the snow-covered crown jewels The Via Gastronomica is a very special - Main course: Hotel Fex experience that combines the variety of - Dessert: Pensiun Chesa Pool of the Engadine. Paths, trails and rope-secured local cuisine with the beauty of the Price per person (CHF) Engadine mountain landscape. You can - Traditional menu: 45.- climbing paths show individualists and sports hike entirely according to your gusto, - Gourmet menu: 70.- because the Via Gastronomica offers you Date/validity enthusiasts the way to a fascinating encounter various “courses” of different length. The - 19.06. – 17.10.10 shortest route leads in 1½ hours from the Information & Booking with the mighty natural surroundings. Furtschellas top station via Marmoré Corvatsch AG down into the dreamy Fex Valley, where Corvatsch – Station Sils fine main courses await you at Hotel Fex. 7514 Sils/Segl Maria If you would like to garnish your culinary Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 50 00 tour even more with a summit view and [email protected] crystal-clear alpine lakes, you can hike in www.corvatsch.ch 4 hours via Lej Sgrischus and over Piz Chüern down into the Fex Valley. In Platta, Pers- Experience the lowest hamlet in the Fex Valley, the A superlative experience! Find your way charming Pensiun Chesa Pool lures with through the labyrinth of crevasses while its irresistible desserts. Bon appetite! wearing crampons. Action guaranteed! After that, you can walk leisurely in half an hour along the wildly romantic canyon Scope of services/comments trail down towards Sils. - Meeting place: Diavolezza railway station at 9:00 Scope of services/comments - Equipment: mountaineering boots or - Hike on easily passable mountain hiking hiking shoes, rain jacket, gloves, picnic trails; easy level of difficulty; depending provisions and perhaps hiking sticks on the route selection, 2 – 5 hours - Approx. 4½ hours - Includes mountain railway trip and 3 course Price per person (CHF) 24 menu in various restaurants along the way - Price on request 25 HIKING HIKING

Date/validity Price per person (CHF) Price per person (CHF) Scope of services/comments - On request - Price on request - 47.- per person (only glacier hike) - Hiking time: approx. 3½ hours Information & Booking Date/validity - 70.- incl. ascent to Surlej – top station Date/validity Bergsteigerschule Pontresina - On request Corvatsch and glacier hike - 12.06. – 17.10.10 Via Maistra, CH-7504 Pontresina Information & Booking Date/validity Information & Booking Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 83 33 Bergsteigerschule Pontresina - Every Friday with good weather and enough Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG [email protected] Via Maistra, CH-7504 Pontresina registrations (from beginning of July) Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz www.bergsteiger-pontresina.ch Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 83 33 Information & Booking Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 [email protected] Walter von Allmen [email protected] Morteratsch Glacier Hike www.bergsteiger-pontresina.ch Casa Lucertola www.engadin.stmoritz.ch The icy armour of the Bernina massif is in the 7516 Maloja background for 12 km and 1,000 altitude Corvatsch Glacier Tour Tel.: +41 (0)79 307 30 18 Clean Energy Tour metres whilst a fraction of the billions of Earth, stone and tussock are familiar terrain With its overall energy project St. Moritz tonnes of glacial ice will be explored. The features on hiking trails. But if there is Muottas Muragl Climate Trail clearly points the way to the future in terms route proceeds in zigzag fashion across the shimmering ice under your feet, this is not Europe’s first climate experience trail, of nature and environment with its overall glacial fields towards natural phenomena only an uplifting feeling, but also an in- opened in 1998, has been modernised and energy project. Classic examples shown on such as glacier tables, marginal moraines stance which requires a mountain guide. updated so that climate change does not the Clean Energy Tour have been created and ice cracks. Both are available on the Corvatsch. There is remain ‘dry material’. 18 thematic plaques with renewable energies from hydroelectric a sophisticated terrain profile, ice trails and make climate change able to be expe- power, sun, wind and biogas between 1,770 Scope of services/comments for good measure an extensive panoramic rienced, and explain the already visible and 3,057 metres above sea level. The infor- - Guided day tour of approx. 5 hours view of prominent peaks: Piz Bernina, Piz changes in the sensitive alpine region. mative tour leads from St. Moritz up to Piz Nair across the Pers & Morteratsch Glaciers; Roseg, the Sella group and the Bergell peaks Right above the Pontresina mountain (3,057 m). This includes the light-wind faci- sure-footedness required in the south. After the ascent of Piz Murtél climbing village they are clearly visible lity on Munt da San Murezzan (2,666 m), - Equipment: mountaineering boots or (3,433 m), the glacier surface is traversed up due to the permafrost regression. Dry the 180 solar panels of the Corviglia railway, hiking shoes, rain and sun protection, to before the tour returns to stone walls, dams and other obstruction and the oldest electric power station in gloves, walking sticks are advisable Fuorcla Surlej via the east flank. measures protect the village against . It is driven with hydroelectric - Refreshments from the backpack mudflows, avalanches and rockslides. The power. Also on the tour is Norman Foster’s - Minimum number of participants: Scope of services/comments trail leads from Muottas Muragl over highly regarded project in the centre of 8 people - Length: approx. 4 hours Schafberg to Alp Languard. From there St. Moritz and the remarkable source which - Children age 7 and older; no dogs - Meeting place: Corvatsch top station at 10:30 one can hike down to the valley or ride supplies the “Badrutts Palace” luxury hotel 26 - Insurance is the responsibility of the participant down with the chair lift. with hot water. 27 HIKING ALPINISM

Scope of services/comments ‘water pots’. The fables are firmly linked Muottas Muragl Panorama Trail Diavolezza Climbing Wall - Length: approx. 2½ hours, including with the mountain lakes. But fairies The most beautiful “high-altitude strol- Is the weather too bad to go up the hike from Chantarella and goblins are there at every turn, and ling promenade” of the Engadine region Piz Palü? Then it is time for climbing - Guided tours possible on request: provide welcome variety in addition to elegantly winds around the Schafberg training in the protected top station of Tel.: +41 (0)81 837 33 88 resting places and mountain restaurants. from Muottas Muragl. The continuation is the Diavolezza railway. Six routes from no less promising. It takes in the Lower the 4th to 6th level of difficulty are Date/validity Scope of services/comments Schafberg Hut between mountain pines located between the perron of the railway - 26.06. – 10.10.10 - Hiking time: approx. 2½ hours and gnarled roots of Swiss stone pines cabin and the huge deflexion pulley for Information & Booking - Height differential: 333 m before the Alp Languard with chairlift the supporting cable. The hall is 12 metres Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG - The trail is marked with blue posts comes into view after a final uphill through high and offers motivated climbers an Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz - Audio tour available with iPod for 5.- incl.: steep slopes. Here you either succumb to athletic preparation for the main test in

Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 • Waterway Tale “The Story of the the charming combination of panorama the Bernina region or the final training [email protected] Furtschellas Mountain and its Lakes” and fresh pastries or hop into the double before going to bed in the Berghaus.

www.engadin.stmoritz.ch • Interesting information about the chair lift for the descent to Pontresina. lakes as well as the alpine flora and Scope of services/comments Waterway Trail “Circular Hike fauna Scope of services/comments - The use of the wall is free to the Six Lejins” Date/validity - Length: 7 km Date/validity Hike for 2½ hours between crystal-clear - 19.06. – 17.10.10 - Hiking time: approx. 2 hours - 31.05. – 19.11.10 mountain lakes and the craggy flanks of Information & Booking Date/validity Information & Booking the Corvatsch massif. Not only the natural Corvatsch AG - 12.06. – 17.10.10 Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG show is enchanting while the hike first Corvatsch – Station Sils Information & Booking Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz proceeds towards Alp Munt and then 7514 Sils/Segl Maria Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG Tel.: +41 (0) 81 830 00 00 around the lakes. The audio guide also Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 50 00 Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz [email protected] reveals details about the flora, fauna [email protected] Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 www.engadin.stmoritz.ch and stories concerning the scattered www.corvatsch.ch [email protected] www.engadin.stmoritz.ch

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Via Ferrata Piz Trovat Information & Booking - From Diavolezza approx. 5-6 hours to a break and enjoy the view on the terrace. The first “Via Ferrata” in the Engadine Diavolezza Bahn the summit Getting down is easy with the chair lift or leads to the Piz Trovat rock colossus Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG - Climbers can rappel down in case of by foot (approx. 45 min.). Thanks to the (3,146 m). The entry point to the medium- 7504 Pontresina emergency, but the descent via the good western-facing wall you can also difficulty climbing adventure (K 2-3) in a Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 39 39 Arlas Ridge is better; approx. 3 hours to enjoy sun in the late afternoon, so an breathtaking setting lies only 20 minutes [email protected] Diavolezza; material: 2 x 50 m double ascent up until 14:00 is easily possible. away from the Diavolezza top station. The www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/diavolezza rope, 10 express ice screws, 1 set of route starts at about 2,850 metres and chocks, smaller cams, crampons, Scope of services/comments follows the west pillar before it crosses a NEW: “Diavolezza-Express” perhaps steep-ice gear - Approx. 2 hours gorge via a cable suspension bridge at at Piz Cambrena Date/validity - The use of the route is free about 3,050 metres. The rock climbing The imposing Pers Glacier is at your feet, - Mid-June – mid-October - Access at your own risk path leads via the southwest wall to the and the icy wilderness of the Bernina massif Information & Booking - Also possible with mountain guide summit with a sensational panorama of is staring you in the face. Whoever wants Diavolezza Bahn - Official level of difficulty: 3 – 4 (more the highest mountains of the to approach the famous Bernina cauldron Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG difficult than the Via Ferrata Piz Trovat) and the Bernina massif. from the east can climb an exciting section 7504 Pontresina - Children from age 12, not suitable for via the west flank of Piz Cambrena. Since Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 39 39 younger children Scope of services/comments the autumn of 2009 the M10 climbing [email protected] Date/validity : - K 2-3 = easy to difficult, partially strenuous bolt signalises the new route aptly augurs www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/diavolezza 01.07. – 31.10.2010 and exhausting, exposed spots exist its name. The “Diavolezza-Express” is Information & Booking - Guided via ferrata and glacier tour of secured on the entire length, can be done NEW: “Via Ferrata La Resgia” Bergsteigerschule Pontresina approx. 6 hours; good condition is a within on day and also offers diversified The attractive via ferrata is located on the Via Maistra, CH-7504 Pontresina prerequisite; surefootedness and a rock-climbing training for alpine pros: southern town exit of Pontresina, directly Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 83 33 good head for heights for walking non-slip rock underlay in the summer behind Hotel Palü. Starting point is the [email protected] are necessary. and challenging mixed climbing with ice Werkhof Pontresina maintenance depot. www.bergsteiger-pontresina.ch - Number of participants: 4 – 6 people and snow passages in the event of cool From here you can climb upwards towards Price per person (CHF) temperatures. Alp Languard. The route ends in the Go Vertical - Rock climbing set: 30.- (Incl. climbing immediate vicinity of the timberline on Chesa Curtinatsch, 7504 Pontresina harness, fall arrest harness, helmet) Scope of services/comments the Röntgenweg. From there it is approx. Tel.: +41 (0)81 834 57 58 Date/validity - Level of difficulty: 12 hours in the 15 minutes uphill until Restaurant Alp [email protected] - Mid-June – mid-October 5+/6- range (M5+ with snow and ice) Languard is reached. Here you should take www.govertical.ch 30 31 ALPINISM MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES

The raw magic of Information & Booking Price per person (CHF) Information & Booking “Senda dal Diavel” Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG - Hotel guests: 23.- * Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG Speak of the devil! In the Engadine region Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz - Day guests: 25.- * Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz this especially means the beautiful she-devil Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 * Includes bath towel and bathrobe Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 “Diavolezza”, which lures visitors with its [email protected] - Bathing trunks rental: 3.50 [email protected] proximity to the majestic Bernina area. www.engadin.stmoritz.ch - Slippers purchase: 3.50 www.engadin.stmoritz.ch Now the “Senda dal Diavel” brings the Date/validity male complement to the region and leads Bathing at 3,000 metres - 31.05. – 19.11.10 St. Moritz “Schellenursli Trail” experienced mountaineers into a grandiose above sea level Information & Booking “High up in the mountains, far from here, setting. The demanding tour extends from The smallest spa with the most fantastic Berghaus Diavolezza there lives a little boy just like you”. So the base station to Lej da las Collinas and view! The Berghaus Diavolezza at 3,000 Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG starts the story which every child in via the rugged east ridge up to Munt Pers. metres above sea level appears typically 7504 Pontresina Switzerland knows. The fairytale is set In between, easy climbing passages and functional upon first glance. Yet when ente- Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 39 00 in the village of Guarda in the Lower exposed positions with installed safety ring the cosy panorama restaurant and its [email protected] Engadine region and concerns the custom possibilities convey a feeling of high terrace you will quickly open your eyes. The www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/diavolezza of “Chalandamarz”, which is the annual alpinism. From the summit with a fantastic mighty icy pillars of the Bernina massif are expulsion of winter with loud ringing view the action proceeds downward towards so close you could almost touch them. And St. Moritz Heidi’s Flower Trail of bells. In authentic ambience, the illus- the Diavolezza Berghaus and back to the in addition to the creative menu there is a The easy high-altitude trail provides an trated fairytale trail not only passes near valley with the gondola lift. very special kick on the “high balcony”: interesting and informative insight into the Heidi Hut, but for approx. 45 minutes pleasurable bubbling in the wood-fired alpine flora. It is located directly beneath long also features views, fauna and flora Scope of services/comments Jacuzzi. Towels and bathrobes are provided the Heidi Hut at a reasonable distance in as they otherwise only occur in picture - Level of difficulty: T4 = trace hardly so that you can completely indulge in the the mountain meadows above St. Moritz. books (suitable for prams). existent, in certain spots you need hands unforgettable natural experience. Over 200 species of flowers laid out in to make progress; marking: white-blue- floral islands along the trail will be descri- Information & Booking white; alpine experience necessary; Scope of services/comments bed. The assortment of colours ranging Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG familiarity with exposed terrain - Towels, bathrobes, slippers and bathing from Superb Pink Carnation to Monkey Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz - Length: 3½ - 5 hours trunks can be borrowed at the Flower as well as the photogenic setting Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 80 15 - 650 height metres reception desk in the Berghaus. around St. Moritz constitutes optical [email protected] - The bath water has a temperature of points of attraction. Length: 1 kilometre; www.engadin.stmoritz.ch 41 degrees Celsius suitable for prams. 32 - Advance notice is required! 33 MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES MOUNTAIN BIKE

Trottinett (scooters) Marguns Date/validity Scope of services/comments Follows Ski”. Day tours in all levels of Of course, you don’t always have to hike - 26.06. – 10.10.10 - Bike transport with the mountain difficulty, short excursions, riding tech- down from the mountain into the valley. Information & Booking railways nique lessons, specific tour weeks and in It is also possible with unusual means Talstation Celerina - Attention! Please show consideration between feasting and relaxing over and of transportation. For instance, with Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG for the hikers! over again! Trottinetts! This variation is the order of 7505 Celerina Price per person (CHF) the day at 2,273 metres above sea level, Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 80 15 - Price for daily tickets see p. 37 Information & Booking and is resourceful for speed freaks and [email protected] - 3.- per bike and section Engadin Mountain Bike Tours families with youngsters age twelve and www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/corviglia Date/validity 7505 Celerina older. Because the huge scooters with - Signalbahn: 12.06. – 17.10.10 Tel.: +41 (0)81 837 53 56 oder mountain bike wheels await pilots who Mountain bike transport - Corviglia: 26.06. – 10.10.10 Tel.: +41 (0)79 453 00 53 can also step on the brakes. The scooters Spare energy and proceed directly to - Marguns: 26.06. – 10.10.10 Fax: +41 (0)81 837 53 59 are smooth-running, nimble and whoosh the fun part! The mountain railways in Information & Booking [email protected] with lightning speed back to the starting Celerina and St. Moritz support this motto, Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG www.engadinmountainbiketours.ch point. It is almost like flying! But on and offer taxi service to worthwhile Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz the ideally suitable dirt road you will starting points. This is why those who Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 especially encounter spotted cattle on want to explore the outstanding Corviglia [email protected] alpine meadows as well as a green section bike area only have to pedal away 534 www.engadin.stmoritz.ch of mountain forest. altitude metres later. From there a veritable treat leads to the mountain lake Lej Alv Scope of services/comments and further towards Suvretta Pass at the Engadine Mountain Bike Tours - Trottinett rental, including helmet, foot Piz Nair. The final downhill into the What functions as the snow sports school for 1 hour wildly romantic Val Bever is waiting for in the winter is the Engadine mountain - Excluding Celerina – Marguns riders. You will also find further promising bike school in the summer. Bike pros make cable car ticket routes starting at the Signalbahn railway the fascination of biking in the Engadine Price per person (CHF) or from Corviglia in St. Moritz. region more accessible to hobby riders, - 18.- for the first ride athletic enthusiasts, families, juniors as - 12.- for every other ride well as seniors under the motto “Bike

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Real adventures for sports stars Wednesday: Further information on biking offers BIKE DAILY & WEEKLY TICKETS Bike Bike + If the legs scream for more adventures, Mornings: Technique Workshop (multi-day tours) is available at CORVIGLIA REGION Pers. it’s time for heftier tours. Trained freaks Afternoons: Kids Technique Workshop www.engadinmountainbiketours.ch (Without Piz Nair and Suvretta) CHF CHF then undertake demanding stages with 1 day Adults (18+) 11.– 45.– bike explorers. The unique and exclusive All tours from Monday to Wednesday last Engadine Mountain Bike Tours Youths (13-17) 11.– 33.– “Frischi Bike Safari” is surely also amongst approx. 5-6 hours (plus breaks). Cost per (near the mountain railways parking lot Children (6-12) 11.– 22.– the highlights in the daily alternating person and tour: CHF 50.-, excl. bike in Celerina) programme: a tour adventure featuring transport. Meeting place for all tours with - Bike shop opening hours: 2 days Adults (18+) 21.– 87.– over approx. 70 km on single trails. Engadine Mountain Bike Tours is the 05.06. - 09.10.10 Youths (13-17) 21.– 63.– gondola lift parking lot at Marguns in - Rental bikes: SCOTT (XC and all-moun- Children (6-12) 21.– 42.– Guided tours Celerina. Start: 09:30. tain with 120-160 spring deflection), (Registration required) from CHF 50.– / day 3 days Adults (18+) 31.– 127.– Thursday: - 24-hour bike service Youths (13-17) 31.– 93.– Monday: Day tour to Maloja Children (6-12) 31.– 62.– Day tour: Engiadin’Ota Information & Booking Friday: Engadine Mountain Bike Tours 4 days Adults (18+) 40.– 164.– Tuesday: (registration required by 17:00 Day tour into the picturesque 7505 Celerina Youths (13-17) 40.– 120.– on the previous day) Tel.: +41 (0)81 837 53 56 oder Children (6-12) 40.– 80.– “Frischi Bike Safari” featuring over Tel.: +41 (0)79 453 00 53 approx. 70 km on single trails, 800 Saturday: Fax: +41 (0)81 837 53 59 5 days Adults (18+) 48.– 198.– height metres in ascents and more than “Suvretta Loop” day tour [email protected] Youths (13-17) 48.– 144.– 5,000 height metres in downhill rides www.engadinmountainbiketours.ch Children (6-12) 48.– 96.– - Meeting place: gondola lift parking lot Sunday: at Marguns in Celerina Day tour to Varusch in the vicinity 6 days Adults (18+) 56.– 230.– - Start: 08:30 of the Swiss National Park Youths (13-17) 56.– 158.– - Cost: CHF 95.- / person, excl. bike Children (6-12) 56.– 112.– transport - Length: 8 hours (plus breaks) 7 days Adults (18+) 63.– 259.– Youths (13-17) 63.– 189.– Children (6-12) 63.– 126.– 36 37 FAMILIES CHILDREN’S DAY | FAMILY TICKET

Papa, the world looks much different from up here! “Children’s Day” of the Summer Family Ticket Mountain Railways The base station becomes smaller and For children, the most beautiful places for romping Mountain, transform! Mountain railway smaller, and the cabin occasionally soars excursions, eating lunch, playing like mad! above the masts. Moments later the and discovering are where cow-bells ring and Is there a better family programme? Yes, entire gang stands at the summit and because “parental timeout” is also gua- marvels at the valley and the whole sea of marmots whistle. If the airborne gondolas at a family ranteed on the observation terraces of the summits. four mountains which await the young- rate lead there, it also becomes the most beautiful sters every Thursday with an entertain- Scope of services/comments ment programme. Attention: every week - One or both of the parents pay the resting point for the adults. another mountain has its turn! official rate - The oldest of the children (up to age 17) Scope of services/comments pays the official children’s or youth rate - Offer for the entire family, including - The second child (up to age 17) receives railway excursion a 30 % reduction on the children’s or - Lunch with dessert and entertainment youth rate programme for the children - Every other child (up to age 17) Price per person (CHF) rides free - “All-inclusive” for the entire family: 99.- Date/validity Date/validity - Valid for families living in the - 15.07.10 Furtschellas same household - 22.07.10 Marguns - Suvretta, Signal, Marguns, - 29.07.10 Corvatsch Muottas Muragl, Diavolezza - 05.08.10 Diavolezza - St. Moritz - Chantarella - Corviglia - 12.08.10 Furtschellas Information & Booking - 19.08.10 Marguns Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG Information & Booking Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz ENGADIN St. Moritz Mountain Pool Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz [email protected] Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 www.engadin.stmoritz.ch 38 [email protected], www.engadin.stmoritz.ch 39 CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUNDS FAIRYTALE TRAIL | PETTING ZOO

SBB Junior Travel Card Marguns children’s playground Celerina Fairytale Trail Furtschellas Petting Zoo Children in possession of a Swiss Federal Not merely hikes suitable for children This trail features three miracle flowers near Here the small explorers will be in for a Railways Junior Travel Card ride free in start where the 6-seater gondolas shuttle the three rock needles “Trais Fluors”. The surprise: lively dwarf goats and agile company of a parent (only Corvatsch AG). into the top station. In addition to a huge fairytale from Swiss author Sina Semadeni- mountain rabbits greet them at 2,312 metres swing and giant slide, tasty pizzas and Bezzola is entwined around the prominent above sea level. The well-tended petting Information & Booking grill specialities also await guests here. rock formation and is presented in German, zoo in the immediate vicinity of Berg- Corvatsch AG There is a spacious playing area for Rhaeto-Romanic and Italian. The eleven restaurant La Chüdera is a special pleasure 7513 Silvaplana climbing, swinging and rambling before illustrated plaques can be explored in a for children. During the summer season, Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 73 73 the “pizzaiolo”, the pizza maker, twirls the leisurely tour in approx. 1½ hours with a shaggy dwarf goats, cuddly mountain [email protected] ordered round speciality in the air. Guests view towards the rock crags, which tower in rabbits and chickens live there. This is a www.corvatsch.ch can feast in the restaurant or on the the sky like three petrified needles. The trail perfect chance for touching, petting and sun terrace. The children’s playground is is also accessible with a pram. The start of feeding the animals (popcorn is available Muottas Muragl children’s accessible with the gondola lift from the fairytale hike is at the Marguns top in the restaurant). There is also a diversified playground Celerina (suitable for prams). station (2,278 m above sea level). playground for having a romp and trying The children’s playground at Muottas things out. Muragl will remain closed in the summer Children’s playgrounds of 2010 due to renovations. Reopening is at Sils/Furtschellas and Trails suitable for prams Date/validity scheduled for December 2010. Corvatsch Murtèl Families are sincerely welcomed with us. - 19.06. – 17.10.10 Playful amusement at the highest level… This is why we try to offer suitable hikes Information & Booking Salastrains children’s playground The two playgrounds at Sils/Furtschellas and walks for children of any age. Some of Corvatsch AG At the end of the “Heidi & Schellenursli and Corvatsch/Murtèl await the little the trails are even suitable for prams and Corvatsch – Station Sils Trail”, the little Heidi Hut and the Salas- summiteers with a large selection of en- make it possible to roll along on mountain CH-7514 Sils/Segl Maria trains playground are lying right next to tertainment opportunities. While mama meadows and alpine poppy. This is why Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 50 00 the Restaurant Salastrains and the Sunshine and papa indulge in a time-out, our young active parents should especially focus [email protected] Bar. A children’s zone which invites to guests can really have a good romp, and their attention on the Corviglia/Marguns www.corvatsch.ch cheerful game-playing and easily shortens the time flies until the meal arrives. region. Here they can count on quite a the waiting period until the meal is served. few rambling tracks and gravel paths The children’s playground is easily acces- (see panorama map). sible via the Signal- or Chantarella rail- ways (suitable for prams). 40 41 EVENTS TOP EVENTS

One does not have to be a mountaineer to get BSI Engadin Festival Information & Booking On Friday, 16.07.10, “Oesch’s die Dritten” BSI Engadin Festival lucky in the Engadine. Creative local experts have will be performing for the first time in the Postfach 110 Engadine on the Corvatsch within the 7500 St. Moritz transformed their insider knowledge into events framework of this year’s BSI Engadine Tel.: +41 (0)81 852 05 88 Festival from 09.07. - 15.08.10. “Ku-Ku- [email protected] and made “something special” accessible in compact Jodel” or “Die Jodelsprache” are amongst their popular songs, while “Volksmusik ist Alpinathlon Engadin St. Moritz form. Here you will find a selection of surprising International” is the title of the current A multi-sport challenge leading to the finish album from the most musical Swiss family, at 3,303 metres above sea level! The starting “spots of colour” which await you in the upper levels. which has sold thousands of CDs and signal for the Alpinathlon Engadin St. Moritz repeatedly inspires a television audience will be given on 24 July 2010. The Alpinathlon of millions. They are young, modest, highly is sport, adventure, team spirit and border- talented and successful beyond the line experience all at once. In a team, as a country’s frontiers and the boundaries of couple or as a single the athletes will over- style: Oesch’s die Dritten stand for almost come mountain and valley, hiking trails and everything, and above all for one thing: high alpine stretches as well as summer and folk music is music from the heart! winter. The athletes will master 5,854 metres of ascent and 3,918 metres of descent on the Scope of services/comments 136.6 km course between Bergün and the - Concert: CHF 50.- incl. ascent and Corvatsch station. The distance is divided into descent as well as parking site (car park) five sections: the athletes cover one section - 1 st mountain ascent: 18:30, further with a racing bike and two sections with a railway trips every 30 minutes mountain bike as well as with running shoes. - Last mountain ascent: 20:00 - Mountain descent: 1st railway departs Corvatsch Trophy 15 minutes after the end of the concert, - NEW: The Alpinathlon is offering the approx. 23:00 Corvatsch stretch as an individual result - Food and drink: from 18:30 at Restaurant Alpinathlon Engadin St. Moritz Murtèl, Corvatsch middle station [email protected] 42 www.alpinathlon.ch 43 TOP EVENTS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Listen carefully and take the Date/validity 15.08.10 22.07.10 gondola to a jazz concert! - 22.08.10 Mountain Church Service Marguns Children’s Day Rhythms which you would actually expect Information & Booking (La Chüdera Sils) 15.08.10 in Louisiana blend with the sounds of alp- Celerina Tourist Information 24.09.10 “Festa della Madonna“ horns in the mountain air on 22.08.10. 7505 Celerina Cultural Panorama Dinner with 19.08.10 Nevertheless, the “New Orleans Festival” in Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 11 “Schreiber vs. Schneider” Marguns Children’s Day Celerina has established itself as a genuine [email protected] 17.10.10 22.08.10 insider’s tip in jazz circles. This is why it is www.celerina-sounds-good.ch End of season at Sils and Surlej Celerina New Orleans Jazz Festival / also nothing unusual for inveterate ‘finger- Marguns goes Jazz snappers’ and ‘foot-tippers’ if Swing and Muottas Muragl 09./10.10.10 Dixie conquer the heights. Or what do you Corvatsch 12.06.10 “Metzgeta“ Marguns think? In particular, the jazz matinees 19.06.10 Seasonal opening 10.10.10 promise to be a buoyant rendez-vous for Seasonal opening at Sils and Surlej 17.10.10 End of season jazz and brass band celebrities from Italy, 15.07.10 End of season Germany and Switzerland. Music from New Furtschellas Children’s Day Alp Languard Orleans and the atmosphere of mountains 16.07.10 Diavolezza 05.06.10 — listening pleasure entirely unplugged on BSI Engadin Festival 31.05.10 Seasonal opening the Engadine high-altitude stages! with Oesch’s die Dritten Seasonal opening Various “hut evenings” and musical (Corvatsch-Murtèl) Date on request events are available throughout the Scope of services/comments 24.07.10 Thai Week at Diavolezza entire summer. More information: - Marguns Alpinathlon (Corvatsch) 05.08.10 Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 94 00 / +41 (0)79 719 78 10 11:30 – 13:30 Dai Kimoto & Swing Kids 29.07.10 Diavolezza Children’s Day www.sporthotel.ch 13:30 – 15:30 Storyville Shakers Corvatsch Children’s Day 19.11.10 17.10.10 - “Jazz Pin” is available at the Tourist 08.08.10 End of season End of season Information Engadin St. Moritz in Festa del Boccalino Celerina. (Free mountain railway (La Chüdera Sils) Corviglia/Piz Nair You will find more information ascents & descents for the concerts are 12.08.10 12.06.10 and details about events at: included free with the purchase of a Furtschellas Children’s Day Seasonal opening www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/events “Jazz Pin”.)

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Go up and allow your views to wander. Panoramarestaurant Corvatsch Mountain Dining at Muottas Muragl It simply tastes different on the Corvatsch Feast with foresight in a Swiss Maiensäss! They are the destination or starting point as well as at 3,303 metres above sea level in the The search for tranquillity inevitable ends panorama restaurant. We invite you to enjoy in the evening hours at the Bergrestau- the place in which bliss consists of checked curtains a few light-hearted hours with a unique rant Muottas Muragl with a picture- view of the Upper Engadine mountain and perfect panoramic view of the Upper and creaking corner seating units. They have also lake landscape. Allow yourself to be Engadine lake district. Feasting takes place pampered by our service team and chefs. in the comfortable mountain restaurant made many folks to ascend more altitude metres Our menu includes “Bündner” specialities, or in the private setting of Villa Lyss, traditional dishes and creations refined which is situated only a few steps away than intended. The reward for this tastes superb: with Far Eastern spices. When preparing and is optimally suitable for groups, clubs your dishes, our chefs use only fresh and wedding celebrations. We will gladly a box seat in the panorama, with a portion of ingredients. Allow yourself to be surprised provide you with a tailor-made offer for by our creative cuisine. an unforgettable evening. “pizzoccheri” – flat ribbon pasta made from Date/validity The hotel will be renovated for its guests buckwheat flour – or a steaming barley soup. - 19.06. – 17.10.10 in the summer of 2010. However, hotel Information & Booking visitors will nevertheless be spoiled Corvatsch AG throughout the entire summer season Corvatsch – Station Surlej with a limited range of dishes. Villa Lyss 7513 Silvaplana can also be booked in the evening on Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 73 73 request (max. 25 people). [email protected] www.corvatsch.ch Information & Booking Berghotel Muottas Muragl 7503 Samedan Tel.: +41 (0)81 842 82 32 [email protected] www.muottasmuragl.ch

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Piz Nair: • Alpina Hütte • Berghaus Fuorcla Surlej Muottas Muragl / Alp Languard: Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 40 80 Tel.: +41 (0)81 842 63 03 • Chasellas www.engadin.stmoritz.ch Season: end of June – end of September • Bergrestaurant Muottas Muragl Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 38 54 Season: 27.06. – end of September The alpine hut invites you to linger with Tel.: +41 (0)81 842 82 32 www.chasellas.ch The Alpina Hut is a classic and offers wholesome culinary fare as well as a www.muottasmuragl.ch Season: 26.06. – 05.09.10 traditional fare with fast service. unique view of the Bernina massif with Season: 12.06. – 17.10.10 The chameleon in the gastronomic heaven the Biancograt. The mountain hotel will be renovated for of St. Moritz: hearty fare at lunchtime, • Mathis Food Affairs its guests in the summer of 2010. How- specialities for gourmets in the evening. Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 63 55 • Hahnensee ever, hotel visitors will nevertheless be The innovative cuisine with a pinch of www.mathisfood.ch Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 36 34 spoiled throughout the entire summer tradition is worth 15 Gault Millau points! Season: 26.06. – 10.10.10 Season: 19.06. – mid-October season with a limited range of dishes. Enjoy reasonably priced local specialities, Hahnensee Restaurant – the epitome of Villa Lyss can also be booked in the • el paradiso tempting pastries and delicious refresh- an insider’s tip – is located here, where evening on request (max. 25 people). Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 40 02 ments at Corviglia. the natural beauty is presented to the www.el-paradiso.ch guest in a nearly extravagant manner. • Segantinihütte Season: 19.06. – 17.10.10 • Marguns Tel.: +41 (0)79 681 35 37 el paradiso lies on the Via Engiadina and Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 80 20 • Osteria Rabgiusa www.segantinihuette.ch is easily accessible by foot, mountain www.engadin.stmoritz.ch Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 50 05 Season: mid-June – mid-October bike, horse, coach or the Signalbahn and Season: 26.06. – 10.10.10 www.corvatsch.ch Take a rest with organic cheese made from Suvretta mountain railways. Chadafö: the pizzeria at 2,300 metres Season: 03.07. – 17.10.10 Engadine milk, homemade barley soup, above sea level with a certain Italian The kitchen is well-known for its “piadine”, fresh muesli, fruit pockets and walnut • Trutz flair! Pizza from a wood-fired oven, char- thin flat Italian breads. Or would you pastry from the hut’s oven. Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 70 30 coal grill specialities, fresh garden salads, rather a Ticino risotto or perhaps a “brasato” www.trutz.ch and a large selection of exquisite wines, with polenta? • Munt da La Bês-cha Season: 26.06. – 17.10.10 as well as a sun terrace! Tel.: +41 (0)79 253 83 80 View and pure cosiness! Here the same • Bergrestaurant La Chüdera-Sils www.schafberg.ch master as in Restaurant Chasellas cooks. Corvatsch: Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 50 05 Season: June – October Enjoy our cosy sun terrace. www.corvatsch.ch Let us spoil you with “Engadine Fast Food”. • Restaurant Murtèl (middle station) Season: 19.06. – 17.10.10 And by the way — all fresh products will • Piz Nair Tel.: +41 (0)81 838 73 83 In the serviced part, the mountain restaurant be carried up daily by back-pack! Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 08 75 www.corvatsch.ch offers simple and honest cuisine with classic www.piznair-stmoritz.ch Season: 19.06. – 17.10.10 specialities. Homemade cakes make the • Bergrestaurant Alp Languard Season: 26.06. – 10.10.10 Do you fancy a fine coffee and/or a hearty view of the Sils Plain really perfect! Tel.: +41 (0)79 719 78 10 From the Corviglia the trek goes up to the snack? Come to our bistro and enjoy our Season: 05.06. – 17.10.10 famous Piz Nair. Once you arrive above, tradi- freshly baked temptations! Diavolezza: You will be spoilt with local specialities tional fare with specialities from the Engadine as well as a unique view of the Piz Palü and the adjacent valleys awaits you! • Panoramarestaurant Corvatsch • Berghaus Diavolezza and the Bernina massif in the cosy Alp Tel.: +41 (0)81 833 67 64 Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 39 00 Languard restaurant. • Salastrains www.corvatsch.ch www.engadin.stmoritz.ch Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 07 07 Season 19.06. – 17.10.10 Season: 31.05. – 19.11.10 www.salastrains.ch You will find “Bündner” specialities, traditi- Here the world famous Bernina massif Season: 01.07. - 31.08.10 onal dishes as well as creations spiced with starts right behind the sun terrace! How Exquisite delicacies are available on the the flavour of the Far East on our menu. would you like to enjoy a glass of cham- tasteful sun terrace. The restaurant is pagne in the world’s highest Jacuzzi? situated on the Salastrains, the sunny mountain plateau above St. Moritz. 48 49 MOUNTAIN ACCOMMODATIONS MUOTTAS MURAGL

Relaxation room with a summit show! The view Berghotel Muottas Muragl Muottas Muragl railway in operation Proceed with the red wagons in the (according to schedule on p. 19) extends far beyond Piz Julier and Piz Lunghin all direction of heaven — and stay there! When the oldest mountain railway in the Information & Booking the way to Bergell. A few kilometres away, the Engadine reaches its destination at 2,456 Berghotel Muottas Muragl metres above sea level, the alpine 7503 Samedan silvery peaks of the Bernina massif scratch at the experience does not stop with a unique Tel.: +41 (0)81 842 82 32 view into the broad valley. In the evening, [email protected] firmament. Far away from civilisation, the world the wine glasses in the mountain hotel www.muottasmuragl.ch shine with the stars and the culinary holds its breath and exhibits a superlative natural refinements are superlative. To fall asleep there is a free view of the celestial lights, gala. There you will find localities in which repose and on the next morning a variety of hikes which start directly in front of the can be retained. house doors.

ATTENTION: The hotel will remain closed in the summer of 2010 due to renovations. But it will reopen in December 2010 and invite you to enjoy unforgettable nights in the freshly restored rooms.

Despite the renovation at Berghotel Muottas Muragl, a limited gastronomic offer will be available for guests through- out the entire summer season.

Villa Lyss can also be booked in the evening on request (max. 25 people). 50 51 DIAVOLEZZA DIAVOLEZZA

Berghaus Diavolezza - Double room Sunrise further above Scope of services/comments It is quiet on the mountain when the last with shower/WC: from 103.- on Munt Pers at 3,207 metres - Overnight stay in Berghaus Diavolezza gondola of the day between the mountain - “Palü Room” “Alver dal Sulagl” is the Romansh term - Hike to Munt Pers pulpit and the base station ends. Only a with shower/WC: from 123.- for sunrise. And on the neighbouring - Only for trained hikers in warm few people sit as if petrified at the glass - 50 % discount for children summit of the Diavolezza panorama of clothing! façade of the Berghaus restaurant and up to age 12 the Bernina massif becomes the ‘icing on - Wool blankets and forehead lamps are marvel at the mighty Bernina Range. - Children up to age 6 are free the cake’. At 4 o’clock in the morning a available in Berghaus Diavolezza Moments later one’s gaze turns towards Date/validity one-hour ascent leads via a well-deve- - No registration is required for the hike the plate. In addition to regional “Bündner” - 31.05. – 19.11.10 loped yet narrow trail through the quiet (not guided) specialities, the chef knows how to dish Information & Booking darkness of the high mountain region. Date/validity up tasty treats from the Italian Berghaus Diavolezza The stars still shine. But just in time, - 31.05. – 19.11.10 region. There is no dearth of fantastic Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG before the day dawns, the 3,207 m “box Information & Booking wines at this altitude. Those who want 7504 Pontresina seat” on Munt Pers is reached. The light Bergbahnen ENGADIN St. Moritz AG can soak up the silence of the mountains Tel.: +41 (0)81 839 39 00 announces its arrival with the first hot Via San Gian 30, 7500 St. Moritz from Europe’s highest Jacuzzi and watch [email protected] sips of tea. In turn, a magical spectacle Tel.: +41 (0)81 830 00 00 the summits while falling asleep. If your www.engadin.stmoritz.ch/diavolezza of colour coats the sky. Seconds later the [email protected] eyes are already too tired for this, you can sun illuminates the chains of mountain www.engadin.stmoritz.ch close them in the double or 4-bed room or peaks as far as Italy and across to in the group lodging area. Austria. Directly opposite, the wild beauties Piz Palü and Bernina awaken Scope of services/comments into an absolute visual attraction. An - Overnight stay including breakfast and unheard of scenic gala performance, very 4-course menu in the evening; excluding near the events! railway trip Price per person (CHF) - Group lodging: from 68.- - 4-bed room with floor shower/WC: from 83.- - 2-bed room with floor shower/WC: from 88.- 52 53 ANIMALS IN THE ENGADINE ANIMALS IN THE ENGADINE

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Adaptation artists 2. Bearded vulture Hunted and marvelled at 2. Red deer The Upper Engadine is alpine highlands. The bearded vulture was exterminated in The high mountain region was also a sparse Deer take in between 8 and 20 kilos of Winters lasts up to six months. They are the 19th century, since it was notorious as habitat for humans, which they also de- forage per day. They eat grass, bark, nuts, hard and long. The ground is frozen, the a predator of lambs. Nevertheless it is a fended against animals. As a result, bears lichens and buds. vegetation sparse. 51 percent of surfaces pure scavenger. The bird is imposing and and lynx were practically exterminated. are covered with rock, only one fifth is al- makes an impression on man and animal Hoofed animals such as deer, chamois and 3. Marmots pine turf and the rest are trees, mainly with its wingspan of three metres. ibex were and still are suppliers of meat Marmots live in family groups. In order to conifers. It is not astonishing that only a and will be hunted. But today hunting protect themselves in low-cover terrain few animal species are capable of survival also serves to regulate the population. against enemies, they are dependent on here. 3. Alpine jackdaw their lairs. At the first sign of danger they It belongs to the Corvidae (raven) family 1. Ibex vanish in them and while doing so emit 1. Golden eagle of birds and lives in the mountains at They are mountain specialists and belong shrill warning whistles. It is regarded as King of the Alps. The eagle altitudes between 1,500 and 3,900 metres. to the genus of goats. A male ibex weighs is a predator that feeds on small mammals The jackdaw is nearly 40 centimetres long about 100 kilograms and has imposing in the summer and carrion in the winter. with a yellow beak and red legs. antlers of up to one metre in length.

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Mountain meadows — colourful 2. Alpine roses The mountain forest — attractive 2. Larch blossoms and rich in species The alpine rose belongs to the family of and robust It is deciduous, becomes golden yellow in In June, the alpine meadows are a veritable rhododendrons. It is evergreen. The plant The timberline is about 2,000 metres the autumn and then sheds its needle- paradise of blossoms with hundreds of roots flat, which facilitates the growth in above sea level and the mountain forest shaped leaves. The larch withstands great flowers and plants which flourish and the rocky terrain. is located underneath. It is constituted temperature fluctuations. bloom. The alpine meadow is poor in differently than the forest in the midland. nitrogen and rich in grasses such as Larches, Swiss stone pines and mountain yellow oatgrass and red fescue, and rich 3. Gentian pines dominate the tree population in the 3. Pine in flowers such as thistles, arnica, knap- Gentian is regarded as the symbol of Upper Engadine. The trees are often The pine tree belongs to the family of pine weeds, baldmoney and gentian. fidelity — because of its pure blue colour. shaped through wind and weather. Their plants. It has particularly long needles. In The flower closes with cloudy sky and growth is slow. the spring the resin of pine trees smells 1. Edelweiss opens again with sunshine. Gentians are very intensive. The protected edelweiss is white with protected and may not be picked. 1. Swiss stone pine long leaves which are hairy. The plant It grows up to 30 metres high and lives up belongs to the family of Compositae. The to 1,000 years. Young trees are conical flower grows on stony ground. with a thick growth of needles. Older trees have a broadly rounded shape.

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