There are several variants up the east side of this climb from Sarnen (471m) and along the west side of the Sarnersee. Sarnen (south) (474m) is a variant from Sarnen (there are three variants in Sarnen, but they are all similar, so I only mention two here). Along Sarnersee one could take a road up from Wilerbad (510m), or further away at Brand (487m) (small road taking off at a bus stop), from where there are two distinct variants up to the main Glaubenberg road. All climbs are roughly the same difficulty and all climbs are quite hard. There are also some not so good cattle grids higher up on this otherwise rather good and wide road.

The climb from the west starting in Entlebuch (723m) is slightly longer and less steep. (I have not been to that side.) Just at the east end of the Glaubenbergpass (1543m), there is a narrow road going down slightly up north. This road will lead to the pass after passing a few short steep ramps and when I visited (2011) there were gravel sections of ca. 10m+10m+30m (this last passage at the flat crossroads where you should turn right). The last part is up a somewhat badly asphalted narrow and steep road to the pass.