Poschiavo – San Romerio – Tirano: on the ViaValtellina through Poschiavo
After the detour to the Val da Camp to the magnificent Lagh da Saoseo, the second part of our hiking weekend in the Poschiavo took us to a place that has been on my bucket list for
On the European Trail to Zermatt: multi-day hike between four-thousanders
It is a hike of superlatives – measured by the difference in altitude between the highest point of a mountain peak and the lowest point of the valley floor, the Europaweg between
Simply amazing! in 2 days through the Greina plateau
The Greina plateau – I have been asked umpteen times in recent years whether I have ever taken a hut tour through one of the most beautiful and largest plateaus in Switzerland. S
Sentiero Cristallina: great multi-day hike in Ticino
Walking through the Ticino Alps in three days – this can be experienced with manageable effort on the 40-kilometre-long Sentiero Cristallina. We tackled the multi-day hike at the
Hut hiking in the Aosta Valley: 2 summit highlights on Alta Via 1
Just 20 kilometres as the crow flies separate us from Zermatt and yet we feel like a trip around the world from the Swiss holiday resort. Here in the Val d’Ayas, a side valle
Albinenleitern – Bhutan Bridge – Pfynwald: adventurous hiking days in Valais
Switzerland instead of Slovenia. Actually, we had planned to travel by train to Slovenia in the second last week of June and do a part of the Alpe-Adria-Trail through the Triglav N
Over the Chasseron to Vallorbe: 2-day hike on the Jura High Trail
Actually, I didn’t have any plans for Ascension Day this year – because early in the year it became apparent that the weeks before were packed with appointments, deadlines
Hiking on the Neckertaler Höhenweg to the Rössli Mogelsberg
Mogelsberg is neither on a popular pass road nor on a popular long-distance hiking route and has only had a magnet for excursions with a supra-regional appeal since the opening of
Iffigenalp – Cabane des Audannes – Sanetsch: top hut tour on the Röstigraben route
For this summer, numerous hut tours floated through my head. As is so often the case, I didn’t get around to implementing all the ideas. But behind one tour I can finally put
Tour des Dents du Midi – hut hike in Lower Valais
For me, a hut tour is part of an extensively savoured Swiss mountain summer. After hiking around the Freiberg Kärpf in three varied days last summer, we have set our sights on the
Zernez – Val Cluozza – Chafuol: Swiss National Park Hut Tour
Advertising—this article was created in cooperation with GraubündenParcs A quarter of the canton of Graubünden’s area is part of a park landscape, ranging from regional n
Kärpf Trek – in three promising stages through the Freiberg Kärpf
I’m sometimes a bit bored with social media. It seems that everyone is bustling around at the same hotspots, as if there was nothing exciting to discover all around. To count