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Old 14th Nov 2021, 02:15
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  • Tickets for shuttle services and the chairlift can only be purchased from ticketino.ch, from 1 October 2021
https://www.boschh.com/news/axalp-fl...rona-covid-19/

Re the climb Megan, you sure?

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So the entire proposition sounds very inviting and a nice place to spend an Autumn afternoon. Until you hear that you have to climb all the way up the mountain. From the Axalp village yourself this is a two to three hour walk depending on your condition. Even when you take the chair lift up to Windegg, you still face a brisk climb towards the Brau hill initially. After that Tschingel awaits you before reaching the Command Point (KP) at Ebenflüh.

Axalp is very popular

Over the past two decades the amount of visitors to Axalp has dramatically increased. From a few hundred, mostly local, visitors in the nineties, nowadays well over 10.000 visitors walking up.

Only a fraction of these visitors have the opportunity to use the air bridge that the Air Force sets up to transport invited guests and press up the mountain. For this purpose a half a dozen or so Super Puma and Cougar helicopters are used. The rest have to settle for the other option: walk! For the untrained mountain climber the hike up can be tough. Although it has to be said that anyone with a reasonable condition can make it in a few hours.
https://www.boschh.com/axalp-fliegerschiessen-airshow/
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