Moosalp (Col de Moos)
	Height	Climbing height
	2048m	1420m (Turtmann); 1396m (Visp) 1180m (Stalden)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	4 (5)	3 (5)
How to get there	It is a long way from down the Valais (Wallis) valley in Switzerland from Turtmann (628m) via Unterbäch (1221m) and Bürchen (1283m) to the pass. One could go up directly from Visp (652m) via Bürchen as well on a more consistently steep climb. Through Bürchen it is really steep for some time with up to 16-17%, but then it gets a little easier again up in the woods. The eastern side from Stalden (868m) is more evenly steep, with serpentines all the way up. The road is not marked as fully paved on some maps, but most roads up in the mountainsides in Wallis that look unpaved in Michelin’s ”never updated according to facts” maps are in fact mostly tarmacced these days. It is a good, but narrow road.
Other comments	It is arguably nicer on the east side of the pass. The west side is more like farmland lower down and the forest area higher up seems like a recreational area (partly). There is a restaurant at the top. This pass has no official ”pass” designation and I am not sure the locals refer to it as a ”pass”, but it surely is a geographical pass. (Not all passes in Switzerland are called so, like Champex near Martigny. A couple from Geneva corrected me when I referred to the ”Moosalppass”, but I do not think they doubted it was a pass.) – It is also referred to as the ’Col de Moos’ by locals. The passroad was completed first in 1978. I found the obvious and rather boring looking hotel in Stalden (where you choose to go to Zermatt or Saas-Fee or down to Visp) to be a very good choice to spend the night and great value for the money. There were a nicer looking hotel up around Törbel (surely with better views) on the east side. (Excuses for the cryptic photo taken all to late when I arrived around 9 pm.)