The Grimsel pass (2,164 m, summit sign 2,165 m) connects the cantons of Valais to the south and Bern to the north; it crosses the continental divide between the Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea.
It’s part of the most famous routes – or round trips – of the Alps and is combined with the Furka pass, which it ‘meets’ in Gletsch in most of those.
There’s a loop with the Susten pass (north), or with the Nufenen and Gotthard passes (south).
Depending on where you start, Andermatt, Airolo or Wassen, and which direction you go, clock- or anticlockwise, you can combine them in several ways, in different order of appearance for each.
More info on the various loops is to be found on for instance the pages of the Alpenbrevet.
I did the Silver version, or north loop, of that in 2019, albeit that I started in Wassen and finished in Andermatt, forfeiting the descend back from there to Wassen.
(These routes do change to start in either Andermatt or Wassen, so the Silver Tour may well be with the south loop some other year…)
I cycled the Grimsel from Oberwald as part of the ‘Swiss Stage’ at the end of my Giro d’Italia 2015 – report here.
