Visiting Trummelbach Falls

We visited Trümmelbach Falls. THAT was spectacular! We stepped into a big industrial elevator that can hold 40 people and road about 2/3 of the way up the waterfall channel, inside the mountain. Then we got out and climbed stairs outside and inside the mountain to see four falls above us, then back down to see six falls below. They were beautiful and loud and amazingly powerful. Trümmelbach carries ALL the glacier run-off water from the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau! It also carries 20,200 tons of rock debris down the mountain every year. It was really remarkable to witness. It carries the most water in the summer run-off months (May-July) and the least in the winter, when the attraction is closed (Nov-Feb).

This is the beautiful wall through the woods to the entrance where we got into the elevator car.

And some beautiful views from up above:

I first visited Trümmelbach Falls in the late 1980s and have never forgotten the feelings I had here about the incredible power of Nature that left me breathless and even frightened. (The guard rails seemed much surer this time.) The pounding torrents crash through the granite mountain with a deafening roar. It was easy to feel my own weakness and insignificance here. I felt God here, in this place, and my own puny strength in relation to His.

There is a scripture in D&C 121:33 that I thought about here:

“How long can rolling waters remain impure? What power shall stay the heavens? As well might man stretch forth his puny to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints.”

God has all power and I felt it here, in his creations. No matter what we might think, He is in charge. And He will pour down blessings as He sees fit.