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The weather had been consistently bad, and this was the first couple of sunny days. I decided to try out Wageten! The first part of the hike is relatively steep on a good trail. When you reach the end of the cableway, it flattens and widens until you reach the alpine trail. There it is steeply through the grassy flank on good...

A nice T4 with SAC Kamor, as a replacement tour for Speer. After a flat walk, we enter a steep forest and climb the first hill. We then descend steeply into meadows. Then the final ascent begins. There are two ladders, each around 5m high, with densely placed steps. The first one leads to a rocky traverse, with wide footholds,...

SAC Toggenburg was arranging a similar 2-day tour on the 23rd, but I could not join, so I though to do this in one day, since the weather was good. I decided to cross the whole mountain plain of Flumseberg. To me it seemed doable: about 1500m of climb and 20km of distance, so somewhat less than marathon in total effort. I took...

This is the first large group hike I organised. I knew that some of the participants were able to hike on steep terrain for long distances, while some of the others only had limited capacity. There were also a lot of constraints on the dates. So I ended up selecting Calanda Hut as the interim goal. The idea was for the weakest...