Total length : Approximately 10 km

Altitude : Between 1000 and 1400 metres.

Route time : Approximately 3 hours. 

Location :  Ernen, to the left of he Rhône, Valley of Conches (Goms)

Difficulty : No particular difficulty. 

Ordinance Survey map 1 : 50'000  no. 264 and 265 T (Jungfrau and Nufenenpass)

Best period : June to October.

These bisses contain water from June to October.

Start

On the main road in the Goms valley, before the junction for Bellwald, is the parking lot for the suspension bridge (Hangebrücke) which must be taken to reach the start of the Bisse de Trusera.

Itinerary

After crossing the suspension bridge follow the Lengbodenstrasse road until the junction with Mühlebachstrasse. Continue south for 50 meters until the junction of the road to Milebach and turn left (east) following the road for about 300 meters as indicated by Trusera Suon.

After crossing the Milebach stream, a fairly hard climb of 200 meters in altitude awaits you until the start of the Bisse de Trusera (altitude point 1367). Follow the bisse until the Binntalstrasse road (3.5 km). Follow the road towards Ernen for 350 meters until the second sign for Niederernen and follow the path downhill to reach the main road to Niederernen. Turn right for 50 meters and turn left onto the Bienenfeld road and then follow through Dorf and Schufla roads towards Ernen until the Bisse de Wuhr junction.

After a few hundred meters the route of the bisse joins up with old renovated mills. Always follow the bisse which passes below the village. When the path comes up against a group of houses, you have to go around them to the left, following a farm road. From this point, up to Mühlebach, the course does not follow the bisse which is under pipes. The path runs alongside a football field and joins up with raised wooden oaks which cross the meadows. From this last point, join the road to Mühlebach and reach the starting point of the route by crossing the suspension bridge.

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The church in Ernen and the chapel in Mühlebach are worth a visit.  Mühlebach is the birthplace of cardinal Mathieu Schiner, the Prince Bishop of Valais in the sixteenth century. It is an authentic village which has been carefully renovated and there are still members of the Schiner family living there.  

There are many lovely picnic spots all along this trail.