Solo trip to Brienzer Rothorn

In the last post when I said it was the last hike of the season I kind of lied. We're hiking all year round, of course!

It was going to be a beautiful day at elevation, and I could see from the webcams there was a good inversion forming. I decided to go for Brienzer Rothorn, as the Sörenberg cable car was still running. I did it the easy way where you start high up and hike down >1000m of elevation instead of the other way around. I couldn't find anyone else who was free midweek, so it was just me and my bestie the Mamiya 6, and all of his lenses:

The Gonne

When I got to the start of the hike, I still had one shot left of Lomo Turquoise and popped that off:

Nöd so guet. Whatever. Then I loaded some Ektar and started blasting:

Then my first roll of Phoenix II. Didn't hate it! But there was a coating defect as you can see in some of the shots. Alex told me to report it to Harman and they eventually sent me some free film!

Some expired tri-x, but they were all taken in the same shot and kind of boring:

That last shot was weird. Somehow my Mamiya 6 thought he was set on 1/15 even though he was definitely set on AEL. Haven't seen that issue again, at least.

Shot one last roll of Ektar as I went over Höch Gumme:

Had lunch at that hut in the last image, then had to descend into the cloud layer:

Below the clouds it was sunny somehow:

Had to make a run for the train on the other side of the lake from the gondola, but made it in time and and was home for dinner!

This article was updated on January 29, 2026
Stefan Dierauf

Stefan Dierauf

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My name is Stefan and this is my blog. I live in Zürich, Switzerland with my husband Dani. I am a software engineer working on infrastructure for private machine learning and analytics at Google Research. Analog photography and home development gets me off the computer, and partially nourishes my childhood dream of being a chemist.

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