This was my second ascent to the Pizzo Centrale. Today I was accompanied byPonch and Green Copper. Since, as realized last time, the ascent to the summit via the official path is somehow a little bit boring, we tried to find out an alternative trail... We started by following the official signed path till the intersection to...

While in the north of the Alps the mountains were covered with snow even below 2000 metres, in the Wallis it was still possible to go up to 3000m. It was one of the last weekend with a "summer" bus connection to the Moosalp, so we decided to profit from this. From the Moosalp we followed the path via p. 2120 and p.2201. At...

Since we did not wake up very early, the only remaining possibility for today was aa typical sunday afternoon tour... So we took the train to Einsiedeln and the bus to Willerzell. At the first intersection after the bridge over the Sihlsee we went on the left direction Studenweidli and Grosshusweid following the nice path to...

Eveline and me were looking for a quick 3000m summit to be done in one day without having to wake up too early. Today's choice was the Jegihorn! From Chrizbode we followed the horrible path (prepared for alpine skiing in Winter...) to the Weissmies hut, via p.2526 and p.2596. From the hut we continued to the small bridge and...

Today was a typical bad winter day... Incredibly cold and with compact fog and clouds covering mostof theSwiss territory... The only possibility to go outwas to perform aneasy tour avoiding alpine terrain, so we decided to go in the region of the Sattelpass. We started our tour in Rothenthurm close to the church, and went out...

The Furggellenstock is one of the quickest but also most crowded summits which can be reached from Zurich without having to wake up too early. The starting point of this tour is the bus stop at p.1089. From there we followed the snowshoes path (and actually all the other people going in the same direction...) to east via...

The Leistchamm was one of that summits that I wanted to do before leaving for the US; not because the hike is particularly nice and not because it is technically demanding but just because the view from the top is amazing! Since today Green Copper had to be at home early and so we did not have a lot of time, we decided that it was...

Starting from the train station in Oberwald we first followed the road and then the path to p.1778 passing Turitschi and Bawald. At p.1778 we continued on the left and went up to p.1918, then p.2034, p.2102 and p.2166. Here finally a real mountain path started... We continued to go up in direction west reaching the nice Jostsee...

After having been hiking on the sunny side of the valley yesterday, today we chose amountain on the north face of the Goms... Aim of the day was the summit of the Brudelhorn. We started our tour atthe train station Geschinen, passed the bridge and followed the path up to Unnerwalij. Here we crossed again a bridge reaching...

Today once more we planned a tour in the beautiful region of the Alpstein and, once more, we tried to avoid the crowded paths of the Säntis. We started our tour in Gamplüt and followed the road to Thurwis; at the first intersection we continued on the path via p.1308 and Laub. At the intersection in the wood basicallythe...

Today we decided to visit the side valley close to Göschenen; we did not plan any particular tour since we did not know the region at all. Once arrived, we chose to explore the trail going up to the Lochberglücke. We followed the steeppath from the bridge at p.1927 up to the Alpergensee. From there ve continued direction...

For this further weekend tour with my mountain friends I decided to go back to the very nice Göscheneralp region and repeat the crossing of the Lochberglücke, a trail that I particularly like. Day 1: as already described in my previous report (First time Lochberlücke) we started our ascent to the Alpergensee at p.1927...

The Pointe d'Arpitettaz was planned as one of the highlights of the Summer 2011. Simone, Green and me left Zurich on Friday evening and went to Lucerne, where we met Ponch. By car we travelled then to the Wallis and spent the night in a camping in Vissoie. Saturday morning we left Vissoie very early direction Zinal with the aim to...

After having spent our first month in Boston mainly by buying furniture and organizing everything it was finally time to leave the big city and look for some hiking trails... We decided to go to New Hampshire in the region of the White Mountains national forest. The highest summit of the White Mountains is Mount Washington, which...

Summer comeback this weekend in New England! Perfect weather for my second american hike. Since I did not want to get up too early I decided to explore the region of the Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. Only two hours away (by car)from Boston. I started my ascent to the summit at the state park main entrance, close to the park...

Why did we choose to go to Mount Kearsarge? Simply because it was supposed to be one of the nicest peaks in New Hampshire... but nobody told us how ridicoulously easy it was to get up there. We started our relaxing walk at the official Rollins state park lot following the Rollins trail to reach the summit. 40 minutes and we were...

Weather forecasts were once again very positive for this weekend; since last week we were blocked at home because of the dead car battery we decided to profit of the maybe last Indian summer weekend. After having left Boston on Saturday and having spent the night in Williamstown at 8.15 am on Sunday morning we started our hike at...

Short afternoon hike today in the south of Switzerland. After having parked the car in Cimadera we followed the path through the small village and then the road direction Cappellina before we entered the forest. Since there is almost only one very large trail it is not difficult to find the way to the Pairolo hut. From the hut...

The 2012 started with nice weather and so we decided to go for our first hiking tour in the new year. Since we did not really wake up early in the morning we chose to hike the Monte Bar along the direct way starting from Corticiasca.There is not much to say about the path, which runs almost straight to the summit passing the...

After a Winter that never started, this was definitevely the first Spring weekend on the US east coast. We decided to go hiking for the second time in the Bear Brook state park, close to Concord in New Hampshire. Like the first time we parked the car close to the park entrance and followed the Bear Brook trail along the river. At...