From one of the car parkings close to the restaurant in El Mascar, first follow the white-red or blue star signs on the road in west direction till apath turns to the left and enters the wood. After 45 minutes you will reach the Coll de Pallers. From here you follow the small partially hidden path on your left. This way is sparely...

It was one of those days where you immediately realize that you have to be very lucky to see anything once you are on the top. The fog was creeping up the mountains and the sun could only rarely be seen. I started in Wildhaus following the path through the Flürentobel up to the Wildhuser Schafboden. I encountered the first...

This tour from Amden, a nice village with view on the Walensee, to the Toggenburg is one of my favourite snowshoes trails and I hiked it several times, experiencing all possible weather and snow conditions. As usual I started from Arvenbüel following the snowshoes trail via Egg and Looch. From Looch I continued almost straight...

A classic early Spring tour to be done when there is still snow in the Alps. Whereas there are not many possible variants to ascend the Speer (without climbing)the descent to the Toggenburg can be shortened or lenghtened individually. From Amden I went up along the chairlift and I followed the road to Strichboden andHinter Höhi....

The Neuenalpspitz represents a nice, less crowded alternative to the Speer as an early Spring tour. We started in Stein and followed first the road and then the path to the intersection close to Rueboden. The path direction north goes to the Risipass from where the Neuenalpspitz can be reached from its north face. Since we...

Early in the morning we took the train to Siebnen-Wangen and continuedfrom therewith the mobility car rented by Simone. We started our tour in Hinter Bruch without the need of snowshoes. The path was full of mud and quite slippery. At the first intersection close to p.1033 we continued straight, whereas at the second one around...

Friday evening we travelled from Zurich to Scuol and spent the night in the youth hostel close to the train station. Day 1: early in the morning we went by bus to S-charl. From S-charl we started our two days hike direction Alp Sesvenna and from there we went up to Fora da l'Aua. From the Fora da l'Aua we continued...

Today according to the weather forecasts, people should not leave home... However early in the morning the situation did not look so terrible, so we started from Lucerne by car direction Ticino... Soon we realized that the summits around Lucerne, although covered with snow above 1500 m, seemed very inviting and after a short...

That weekend the original idea was to perform a hike in the beautiful Valle Maggia, however we realized in the last moment that there was still too much snow there. As a last minute alternative we chose to visit the Appenzell and more precisely the Säntis region. Day 1: We started our tour in the village of Brülisau,...

Unfortunately the first few kilometres of this trail till the Lago Sella are along a car road. The region is however full of marmots; this makes the walk nicer. From the Lago Sella a path turns on the right and goes up to the intersection direction Gloggentürmli. At the intersection at p.2468 we took the path on our right,...

The weather forecasts were just fantastic for that day, so I decided to take holidays to go hiking. It was time to do the first 3000 summit of the season, so I chose to travel to Val Bedretto to reach the top of the Chüebodenhorn, which is quite famous because of the glacier lake usually full of icebergs. I started my tour in...

This was our first group excursion. I was positively impressed by the number of people joining... Since it was our first mountain experience alltogether we decided to go for a not too difficult trail. We chose to explore the Bündnerland and more precisely to go from Lenzerheide to Arosa via Furcletta with an overnight stay in...

This is for sure one of my favourite tours; there is almost everything a hiker can desire! We started in Braunwald and followed the trail direction Ober Stafel; we crossed two bridges and after the second one we turned on the path on our right. From Ober Stafel we continued to p.1644, where we took the path on the right direction...

We planned this tour long time ago; it was difficult to find a weekend, where all the participants could join. Although it snowed in the Gotthard regionone week before, the warm temperatures of the last days and the good weather forecasts convinced us to undertake the tour. To be prepared for any eventuality we took our snowshoes...

Although we started very early from Zurich, at the arrival at the end of the Bisisthal there was already a lot of people waiting for the cablecar.... The only solution was to walk up to the Glattalp and then see what could be done. We followed the alpine trail via p.1280, p.1371, p.1522 and crossed the Bockalpeli reaching the...

The trail starts at the bus stop Gurtnellen/Fellital. First there is a car road to follow direction Felliberg. Before reaching Felliberg, exactly at the site of a prominent chapel, a small steep path enters the wood on the left side of the road. Following this path we entered the wonderful Fellital, passed the Treschhütte (1h...

For the first time during Summer and not in Winter wetook the bus to St. Antönien; aim of the day was to reach the summit of the Sulzfluh, the wonderful mountain we wereadmiring everytime in Winter during our snowshoes tours. Unfortunately the bus stops far away from the last car parking, so that for the first kms we were...

(see also report from 26.05.2011) Only two days after the 9 hours walk from Gurtnellen to Bristen I was back on the same region to basically repeat the hike with following differences: overnight stay in the hut, start in Bristen and 10 cm of fresh snow above 2000m. We started in Bristen and reached the Etzlihut in 2 hrs 45 min...

Today it was finally time for a tour in the beautiful Verzasca valley. I started with Simona and Eveline in Piee close to Brione, choosing the path direction Pianesch and Matar. From Matar we continued to the Alpe di Sgiof avoiding the steep, more difficult path ascending to the lake Starlaresc (the terrain was also wet and...

Today we chose to explore th region of the Arnisee and the moutains between Amsteg and Erstfeld. We started our tour at the cablecar station at the Arnisee and decided to follow the direct way to the Leutschachhütte, which we reached in approximately two hours. Unfortunately the weather in the valley was not so nice with a...