Km today : 17 Km remaining : 98 Wow! Already 292 Km. Time also is flying by. After a sleep at the Kanderstegs campground and a nice breakfast, I took my fresh ordered bread and left around 8:30. Again 1400m were at the program of todays section. The sun was already shining hot above the […]
Km today : 17 Km remaining : 115 Today we were able to have a swim, and it was welcoming because it was so hot ! We started at 8:35 after a good breakfast and a so so night (thanks to our noisy but still slow sleeping neighbors). As soon as we were bombarded bit […]
Km today : 22Km remaining : 132Highest elevation gain planned for today. We left Lauterbrunnen after a Cappuccino at the bakery at 7:10 in order to make some use of the cold air temperature. And it was already steep. We sweated quite a lot until we reached Winteregg as soon as the sun hit us […]
Km today : 19 Km remaining : 154 After my arrival at Grindelwald and having some coffee, my mom and I started todays section. For once you start to go down before passing to the Grund train station and starting the ascent to todays pass called “Kleine Scheidegg”. As we started only around 9:40 (we […]
Km today : 23 Km remaining : 173 After another unexpected zero day where I went to swim in the Burgelisee in Ringgenberg it was time to hike again. This time my sister and I friend joined me to do the hike to Grindelwald. We started around 9:20 after having a coffee and getting some […]
Km today : 33Km remaining :196 Wow just found out I passed the half length of my Via Alpina. I started the day slowly this morning around nine from the Campground. I first got up to Trübsee and it was already hot. After meeting a crew removing all the vegetables on the trail. I arrived […]
Km today : 30 Km remaining : 229 What a long day! After a difficult night under the street lamp and all of the noise of Altdorf, I packed my wet tent from last evening rain. I took the bus to the main place of Altdorf and had breakfast there. After getting some food it […]
Km today : 27Km remaining : 259Fog day again! After getting up and breakfast I started the uphill hike to the Klausenpass at 9:15. It wasn’t sunny but at least it was cold and comfortable to hike. I arrived at the pass one hour later and then started the long descent to Altdorf. In addition […]
Km today : 16 Km remaining : 286 First 100k are done. And with that the sun is back on my Via Alpina! After a good night sleep in Braunwald. I went down to Linthal again to meet friends that hiked witj us today. The knees are a family problem as it looks like. My […]
Km today : 24 Km remaining : 302 After a nice night sleep and a great breakfast it was time to leave the Gasthaus Segnes and hit the trail again. After meeting with my dad, buying some bread and sweets we attacked the uphill direction Empachli. The atmosphere was foggy and quite special. It was […]
