I hadn't heard of it either. But the Schafbärg is a steep up and down to add to your easy Way Up list. The summit sits below the prominent Bietschhorn. It's easily overshadowed, but for a challenging up and a rapid descent it's fantastic. By the numbers, that's over 1700 meters gain in only 6kms.

Starting in the Lötschental, near Blatten, we followed switchbacks up to the Bietschhorn Hut. The hut is positioned in the last of the grass, before the trail turns to steep scree, and worth a stop for one of their cakes served with a great view. Heading above the hut, the trail becomes even steeper and rockier, but well-marked with paint, you can't lose the route. Depending on conditions, you will likely encounter various amounts of snow on this section. Early morning ascents may be icy.

Directly above the hut, you reach the Bietschjoch, and from the pass, it's a short ridge scramble to the Schafbärg for an incredible close-up view of the Bietschhorn, which is also being done as a kind of Way, Way Up, but we'll let you decide about that.

The peaks in this region are known for loose rock. We've chosen to get you into the area, you can decide what more, if anything, you'd like to climb. For our own day here, we originally intended to scramble the ridge to the Wilerhorn, but the loose rock we kept grabbing by the handful after the Wilerjoch made us change our minds. Sure it gets done, but it just didn't seem so fun to us. Stopping at the summit of the Schafbärg seems to be enough to have a quality up and down, keeping to better rock, and off the glacier.

We decided that continuing on for more did not necessarily mean more fun. Sometimes less is best. Reaching the ridge to the Schafbärg is one of those times.

If you like this kind of up, try the next step up, on superb rock, the Wiwannihorn.