From Weisstannen, walk along the little road further into the valley. Strange high-alpine worlds with ravines and waterfalls make up for the length of the walk before the first climbs begin. Over the boulder fields caused by a rock fall, the trail spirals leftward, each sharp bend taking you further up the slope carpeted in bushes, allowing lovely backward views into the Seez valley and finally opening into the wild Foobach ravine. Behind this, head to the right in the rock wall onto the secured trail to the Foo Alp.
Softly shaped green slopes now lead into the Heiteli sheep pastureland. Above this, the sedimentary rock layer of the Foo massif comes clearly into view, a visible sign of the Glarner Hauptüberschiebung (main thrust fault). The terrain now becomes a gentle incline to the Foo pass. The sudden appearance of the Glarner Alps on the other horizon with the last metres has to be one of the most striking moments of the tour. The impressive Vorab, Hausstock and Kärpf mountains dominate the panorama.
Next comes a steep descent to the Elmer side, but thanks to the well-built trail it is not a knee-breaker. A little dirt road begins at the Raminer Matt meadow, stretching towards the valley over several wooden bridges. Mighty waterfalls and sparse maple woods enliven this stretch of the route. From Stäfellegg, note should be taken of the short cut of the climbing meadowland path to the Niderenalp cable car station. After passing the sawmill, the trail finally arrives in Elm.
(Glarner Wanderwege)

Elm
The neat little mountain village of Elm lies in the vast basin of the upper Sernftal valley in the midst of lush green meadows and surrounded by beautiful maple and fir trees. It owes its wind-protected setting to the steeply towering summits of the Piz Sardona, Piz Segna, Vorab, Hausstock and Kärpf mountains. A late Gothic church, built in the 15th century, boasts a carved pulpit dating back to 1615 with a memorial plaque for the 114 people who lost their lives in a rock fall on 11 September 1881. The beautiful and well preserved village centre was registered in the inventory of village settings deserving protection with the following buildings: the “Grosshaus”, built in 1585/86, a wooden construction on a walled base that in the late 16th century belonged to the landvogt and bannerherr (city district administrator) Hans Eimer; the “Zentnerhaus”, a simpler building but all the more impressive for its size; the “Suworowhaus”, presumed to have been built in 1671 by landammann (head of cantonal government) J.C. Eimer. It was also the residence of the last Glarus landvogt, J.H. Freitag (1798). In early October 1799, the house served as quarters for General Suworow before he marched his army over the Panixer pass.
On 12 and 13 March at 8.55am and on 30 September and 1 October at 8.34am, the sun projects its rays through the Martinsloch gap (gap in the face of the Tschingelhörner) onto the village church. Mineral water sources: in the early 20th century, Elm developed into a climate spa resort with a mineral spring and a spa house. The Elmer Citro mineral water has been bottled there since 1927.
(Schweizer Wanderwege)