Central Switzerland's tallest mountain, Mt Titlis, is known for being reached by the world's first revolving cable car. This was completed in 1992 and is still one of the few on the planet. However, that's the last leg of a breathtaking four-stage journey. First, you must ascend to Gerschnialp (1300m). Then, in the same small cable car, you glide over cow pastures and up to Trübsee (1800m). Transferring to a large gondola, you head for Stand (2450m).
Finally, in Stand you board the Rotair (only the cabin inside revolves) for the passage over the dazzling Titlis Glacier . The Titlis station (3020m) has all the usual array of restaurants and tourist attractions such as an ice cave. But on a good day, you want to head straight outside. To the 3239m summit, it's about a 45-minute hike (wear sturdy shoes). It doesn't look far but at this altitude you need to take it slowly. Otherwise, enjoy the snowboarding and skiing, either by participating or merely spectating.
The Ice Flyer chair lift (adult/child around Sfr10/6) will take you down to the glacier park where there are free 150m-long slides on rubber tyres. The nearby freestyle park has a half-pipe and good summer snowboarding. The return trip to Titlis (30 to 45 minutes each way) costs around Sfr79 from Engelberg, or around Sfr95 from Lucerne. However, in good weather, you can walk some sections.
Between Stand and Trübsee the Geologischer Wanderweg is open from July to September; it takes about two hours up and 1½ hours down. From Trübsee up to Jochpass (2207m) takes about 1½ hours (or there's a chair lift beyond the lake), and down to Engelberg takes around the same time. The tourist office's Look Around activity brochure sets out all the possibilities.
