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So, I was going to use a friends camper which was parked at the Stechelberg car park, that was until the lovely police in Lauterbrunnen towed it and crushed it. Even though it had a value of roughly EU7500. Yiew!

So anyway, I am looking for alternative transport. Does anyone have any recommendations? Cheap hire places? Buy a cheap vehicle? At the moment, hire is worth roughly $US1K for 25 days. Not cheap.

Do I get a free handjob?

Nein. Im leaving from the valley, so Verona is not convenient...

there must be a story behind that... And a "don't leave your vehicle parked for months in our car park" sign too....

It had no current registration. Aside from that, it was parked away from the normal area, near the resident garages under a cover with the permission of an owner. So as far as I can see, there was no reason to go and destroy the vehicle. That is all sorts of fucked up.

That can't be it. I don't think I've ever seen any signs in the car park, post on here, posts on Facebook, posts on the SBA site about leaving cars in Stechelberg forever...

Must be the Swiss police's fault. Yeah, that's the only explanation

I don't know shit goes down in England guv, but if a car were tucked away near the resident garages in Stechelberg gondola station with a valid annual pass and the carpark owners were told it was NOT ABANDONED, you'd think you'd done all you could considering you aren't there a whole lot. Yeah??

I did a quick search on this forum for words "camping stechelberg" (change the dropdown menu on the search form from whole sentence to all words) and found this message from Michi which might give you a hint why this happened : http://www.basejumper.com/...um.cgi?post=2974800;

"Important note:
Stechelberg Bahnen has complained that there is a lot of camping in cars or buses at the parking lot of the Stechelberg Bahn.
Please know that it is illegal to camp in Switzerland outside of official camping grounds.
Please stay at one of the camping grounds in Lauterbrunnen during your visit."

So maybe next time, do a bit of research and play by the rules in the country which you are visiting. The point here probably is, regardless whether you had a permission from the specific garage owner or not, the Stechelberg Bahn is pissed about cheap ass jumpers using their parking lot as an illegal camping ground and turning it to gypsy camp for summer only to go down to the Horner in the evening and spend all their money on chf5.80 beers... Remember, the Stechelberg Banh is trying to run a legit business there and the major customer group for them is NOT BASE jumpers (believe it or not!). So most likely they do not want their prime customer group (being normal tourists) to have to witness bunch of weirdly dressed hobos smelling like shit (since they haven´t showered for 2 weeks) taking a piss in the morning in front of the tourist group as they crawl out from their campers after hitting it hard on the upstairs of the Horner until 4 in the morning. So don´t be an idiot, drink couple of beers less and camp at a designated camping area (which there are plenty in the valley). And you will not have your camper towed away.

I hope you will find a resolution to your transport problem and despite of this minor inconvenience, I hope you a fucking rad season in the alps.

Love it... The Threads on this site are awesome...

"Angry Swiss Dude" now has a finnish sibling!

I guess the President is too busy on jumping so someone has to fill in. I did my time in the board of the SBA so sometimes it is just too difficult to let go and let the current board take care of being an ass in the internets. :D

95% of the rant you engaged in isn't applicable to me or the owner of the van. I stay at Schutzenbach when I am there and pay my dues everywhere I go. The owner of the van did everything he could to make sure his vehicle complied with the rules. If you had read my posts instead of lumping me in with a growing minority of ass hats who pile in over summer you would have realised that. I've got alternative transport, so thanks for enlightening me, but this won't be my first trip to the valley. I understand the struggles the locals are faced with from foreign assholes and i'd be happy to buy you a jug and discuss said problems in two weeks time.

Buy me the beer, and I will pay forward to the president and the finn as I will see then before you 😉

Nah, I'll share some of the beer I bought from the Coop to top the jugs up