Back-packing trips:-

• 1. A walk all the way across Switzerland from Austria to France 1973-1995 and additions since

• 2. From Innsbruck Airport to Innsbruck Airport via the Stubai- & Gschnitztaler 1992 (Austrian Tyrol)

• 3. Round Monte Rosa from-to St Niklaus 1973 & 1975 (includes an Alpine option)

• 4. Best ever day in the mountains - The Balfrin Ridge 1977 (This is an Alpine trip, revised 17-10-2010)

• 5. From Mauvoisin in the Val de Bagnes to Breuil 1999

• 6. From Kandersteg to Fafleralp in the Lötschental 1974 (includes an Alpine option & revised 1-10-2010)

• 7. St Luc to St Niklaus - Bella Tola - the best viewpoint in the Swiss Alps totally revised 17/11/2010

• 8. Visp to Zermatt on foot - The Europaweg high level 'footpath'

• 9. Chamonix to Zermatt on foot - the footpath "Haute Route" some improvements more to follow 17/11/2010

Walks based on village centres:-

• 1. Zermatt (at the end of the Mattertal)

• 2. Saas Fee (includes Alpine option climbs. Updated October 2010)

• 3. Grindelwald (includes an Alpine option)

• 4. Grächen (above the Mattertal)

• 5. Lenk in Simmenthal (includes an Alpine option)

• 6. Neustift (in the Tyrolean Stuebaital)

• 7. Zinal (Val d'Annivers)

• 8. Bettmeralp (above the Rhone Valley (Goms))

• 9. Pontresina (in the Upper Engadine near St. Moritz but much nicer)

• 10. Grüben totally revised 17/11/2010

Looks around villages:-

• 1. Arolla

• 2. Grimentz

• The three walkers passes over the Berner Oberland (East to West):-

• 1. Gemmi Pass from Kandersteg to Leukerbad. Updated October 2010.

• 2. Rawil Pass from Iffigenalp (Lenk) to Montana

• 3. Sanetsch Pass From Gsteig to Sion

Maps: The pages include the numbers of the Swiss National Survey 1:50,000 maps for each days walk as 'LKxxx' for Landeskarte and the map number for the Kompass maps, defined as 'Kxxx'. Many pages include small maps, taken from the Official Map of the Automobil-Club der Schweiz, (with their permission). These are of varying scales, only indicative & useless for actual walking. If you cannot read a map & use a compass, use this site for armchair mountaineering only.

Heights: are included in the form '1234m' where 'm' is metres above sea level.
Where the route is shown on a photo, it uses Poucher's convention of dashes where it is visible & dots where it goes behind the hill.

Getting there: Details on this page

This link to my page of 'how to get there', hotel advice & Tourist Office links updated 11/9/2009

This link is to correspondence I have had with other potential adventurers & may be of interest to you

This link is to a discussion about rucksacks, a list of what I put in mine & what you don't need

This link is to Hints & Tips, which used to be on this page but now are much expanded

Various other links are on this page

Weather

People are always e-mailing me, wanting to know what the weather is going to be in the Alps.
I wish I knew! It can change from very nice to very nasty, very quickly.

Winter and Ski-ing

I used to think there was plenty of information available because of ski-ing's popularity. However, I am getting so many enquiries that I am gradually including some winter photographs attached to village pages because I have them & you might be tempted, e.g. Wengen, Mürren, Zermatt and Davos more to follow. I will be gradually adding practical advice about the resorts I know as well.