A comfortable train ride will get your there in only 12 minutes. As a good warm-up for cross-country skiing, you can walk from the train station to the trail head (takes about 10 minutes).

The natural features of the Alpine landscape offer few opportunities for Nordic cross-country skiing, but there is a cross-country ski trail on the valley floor between Lauterbrunnen and Stechelberg. And a spectacular trail at that, with no less than 72 waterfalls to be seen along the way between the two mountain villages. The entire route goes along the White Lütschine river, past icy cascades.

The Trümmelbach Waterfalls (open from April to November) are a particular highlight, which you glide past in a loop. The waterfalls are named after the loud drumming sound made by the largest subterranean falls in Europe. The Trümmelbach drains the glacier walls of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau; the ‘drumming’ is a bit quieter in winter because of the ice. Shortly before reaching your destination, you pass the Mürrenbach Waterfall, which is a record-holding waterway in its own right, with five cascades plunging more than 417 metres, making it the longest waterfall in Switzerland.

The cross-country ski trail leads to Stechelberg, and back to Lauterbrunnen. The valley end is a large nature preserve which is part of the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch UNESCO World Heritage Site. A number of different high-mountain tours start in Stechelberg.