Back-packing trips:-

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

• 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)

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

• 6. From Kandersteg to Fafleralp in the Lötschental 1974 (includes an Alpine option)

• 7. St Luc to St Niklaus - Bella Tola - the best viewpoint in the Swiss Alps

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

• 9. Chamonix to Zermatt on foot - the footpath "Haute Route"

Walks based on village centres:-

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

• 2. Saas Fee (includes Alpine option climbs)

• 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)

Looks around villages:-

• 1. Arolla

• 2. Grimentz

  3. Grüben

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

• 1. Gemmi Pass from Kandersteg to Leukerbad

• 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 or the Kompass maps, defined as 'Kxxx'.

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:-

This link to my page of 'how to', hotel advice & Tourist Office links

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.