It’s a week later and we finally finished putting up everything from our trip. It takes a while to sort through over 2,200 pictures!
We were thinking of having some family over to go through some of our selected shots but decided against that in favor of putting up our photos …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Vacation Recap
I just finished putting the journal entries that I kept while we were on the hiking portion of our trip up here in the blog. I linked in a number of photos from the trip as well. Took a little bit more work than I thought it would to get it all on there, but wanted to get it done …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: 0600 Zurich - 1800 Uptown Art Fair
Today’s Stats:
Moving Time 3h 54m
Distance: 9.2 miles
Ascent: 1,656’
Max Elevation: 4,822’
We had the dessert course of our hiking trip today. Today’s hike was an easier hike with some great views and a wonderful trek through history. We started our trip by grabbing a bus from …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Casaccia to Soglio
Today’s Stats:
Moving Time: 5h 4m
Distance: 9.5 miles
Ascent: 3,589’
Max Elevation: 9,124’
Shirley left us this morning. Shirley is one of the happy members of our hiking group and she’s a pretty incredible lady. She has no problem talking but luckily she’s got a wealth of …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: Piz Lunghin Summit
Today’s Stats:
Moving Time: 4h 58m
Distance: 11.9 miles
Ascent: 2,506’
Max Elevation: 7,437’
There is something really fun about waking up in one village and walking out of your hotel with your pack on and walking right into your next hotel in another village having used nothing …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Pontresina to Sils Maria
Today’s Stats:
Moving Time: 4h 19m
Distance: 8.5 miles
Ascent: 2,526’
Max Elevation: 9,061’
Last night at dinner our guides presented two different hike options for today. One would be a relatively flat hike for those looking for any easier day. The other would be a day similar …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Zuoz to Pontresina
Today’s Stats:
Moving Time: 4h 13m
Distance: 9.6 miles
Ascent: 2,956’
Max Elevation: 8,520’
When we were in France we spent at least €100 on water in one form or another. The water out of the tap tasted hideous and restaurants treated it like gold. Here in the Engadine region of …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Zuoz to Chamanna Des-Cha Hut and back
First of all, let me wish my sister Alona a Happy Birthday! I was on the other side of the world and was unable to get in touch. Hope this is some small consolation for that. 🙂
Today’s Stats:
Moving Time: 5h 25m
Distance: 12.99 miles
Ascent: 2,250’
Max Elevation: 7,365’
Today was …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Scuol to Guarda
I’m sitting in the most luxurious form of transportation that I’ve ever experienced. We are taking a high-speed train from Paris to Zurich. I think we are in first class, it was required to get a reserved seat on the train and it turns out to be a fairly smart idea since we had …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
After our amazing train ride we arrived in Zurich. Switzerland is such a different place than France. It’s much more multi-national. A lot of different languages; almost all signs were in four different languages. We spent some time at the train station getting Euros changed to …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Zurich and on to the mountains...