This is the walk so many visitors rave about. I did it in 1984, taking my Father up to the Tschierva Hut:

Friday 13th July 1984 (Route 1) Up the Val Roseg to the Tschierva Hut (Camanna round here = Romansch). Theoretically, easy walk. Even so, it was at least 18 miles. There are a lot of flowers & the view at the end is grand. But the real view is as you turn into the Tschierva valley, to the left of the 2nd photo below, with Piz Bernina, Scerscen & Roseg in a big horseshoe above the hut. I was slow as it was a typical second day but it was worth it. The Val Roseg is a nice place. The Guardian & staff at the Tschierva Hut ignored us completely & passed up the chance of selling us soup but, when we got to the end of the top, flat valley (there are two filled-in glacier lakes in Val Roseg), we had a beer at the Roseggletscher Hotel, an incongruously pink building with a regular bus service of horse carts, at least four of them for the five or more miles to Pontresina. Blue trout for starters, then paillard of veal for dinner. The landlady is a sweet old thing who always wants to know where we have been & what we have done.

Route 1 to the Tschierva Hut Route 2 over the Fuorcla Surlej

Looking back down the Val Roseg The end of the valley Tschierva Hut Roseggletscher Hotel

Fuorcla Surlej

Monday 16th July 1984 (Route 2 on the map above) This was the biggest day I had planned. The weather was sunny but with plenty of cloud sculling around. We went up the Val Roseg (much faster than before). The path up to the Fuorcla Surlej, starts at the Roseggletscher Hotel, doubling back a bit.. The view of the Big Boys was much improved by the clouds. We had suppe mit würstli in the café at the top of the pass, then set off down the other side in a biting wind. This was the way we were going to get a view of the lakes & the Val Bregaglia beyond. We stopped at the Hahnensee café for a coffee & found the Hohenweg marked to Pontresina so, like fools, we took it. It was up & up & ended in a precipitous series of zig-zags back down to Pontresina Station. Then, up to the hotel having spent 8 hours 50 minutes on 25 miles of widely varying scenery. We had two dinners again.

From the Val Roseg, cannot quite be seen

From the West

Last bit back

Piz Languard

Thursday 12th July 1984 We made a pretty enormous day of this, starting at 0830 & getting back at 1840. We walked up Piz Languard, eschewing the chairlift for the 1st bit. At 3269m, it is a mile above the town. After flogging up a ski slope, there is a long traverse with not a few flowers, to a summit pyramid of loose stuff. Halfway up this problem is Georgy’s Hütte to our surprise. We had our lunch on top at 1230 & a tea & coffee in the hut. The views of the Bernina Alps are splendid. To go down, we headed for Bernina Suot. This meant crossing a lot of huge snowfields with a feeling of remoteness until we tipped over the edge into the Val da Fain, which goes down to Livignio. This is full of a variety of flowers. We walked all the way back to Pontresina by a path near the railway, going through Morteratsch station. Were we tired. Dinner was chicken. I got two loads. We had walked about 20 miles & despite the sorry state of my untrained feet, it was one of my best mountain days since, say, 1978.

We Walked but worth taking the chairlift!

Georgy's Hut & Laj Languard (not my photo)

The way down