Rhine-Reuss-Rhôneweg: Ernen - Brig/Gils

We climb onto the Trusera water pipeline in the Erner Forest to avoid car traffic into the Binn Valley. After crossing the Binna, we make a small additional loop to the idyllically situated Jakobskapelle on the Albrunweg. On the shady slope we hike via Grengiols to Mörel, past the children's cemetery zen Hohen Flühen of Bitsch and on the Red Mile to the Totenplatte in Naters. Behind the Mauritius Church stands the more than 500-year-old ossuary, where thousands of skulls stare at us behind a bare. On the opposite side of the Rotten, in Brig, a (pilgrim) hospice of St. Anthony with a chapel was founded as early as 1304, which was the Upper Valais hospital until after the Simplon tunnel was built. In its vicinity we find the convent of the Ursulines, founded by Kaspar Stockalper (1609-1691), and the Stockalper secondary school of the Collegium Spiritus Sanktus, each with an impressive church