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Col du Rawil (2,425 m)

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Col du Rawil (2,425 m)

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Col du Rawil (2,425 m)

Name: Col du Rawil (2,425 m)
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Location: Lenk, Obersimmental-Saanen, Espace Mittelland, Switzerland

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3. Lac de Tseuzier – Lac de Tseuzier loop from Vermala

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Marcel

August 28, 2023

The Rawil Pass, French Col du Rawyl. The pass was already used in Roman times and in the Middle Ages and was an important crossing point from the Bernese Oberland to the central Valais. The actual mule track over the Rawil Pass begins in the north on the Iffigenalp, which can now be reached by post bus or by car via a time-controlled road. The path winds its way up through a rock face in serpentines. It had to be blasted out of the rock in the 18th century.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway was planned from Sion to Lenk over the Rawil, which would have passed under the Rawil Pass in a 2.8 km long summit tunnel at 2050 m above sea level. The project was approved by the cantons of Valais and Bern and the Federal Council in 1912, but was never implemented.
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Location: Lenk, Obersimmental-Saanen, Espace Mittelland, Switzerland

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Col du Rawil (2,425 m)

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