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Via Alpina Day 3 : Weisstannen to Elm

Posted on 12/07/201930/10/2019 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 3 : Weisstannen to Elm

Km today : 24 Km remaining : 326 After finally waking up at 7:30 , having breakfast and packing everything up, I started the ascent of the Foopass. It wasn’t cold at all. At the Alp I met the first hiker speaking french. He is doing the Via the other way around and told me […]

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Via Alpina Day 2 : Sargans to Weisstannen

Posted on 12/07/201930/10/2019 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 2 : Sargans to Weisstannen

Km today : 13Km remaining : 350 I am writing this from inside my tent from a place with no reception! Almost an exception nowadays in Switzerland. I am at the altitude of roughly 1400 meters. It nice , wet and a little cold. All you hear are the cow bells from the alp below […]

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Via Alpina Day 1 : Gaflei to Sargans

Posted on 10/07/201930/10/2019 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 1 : Gaflei to Sargans

Km today : 27 Km remaining : 363 It was a nice day to start this thru-hike. After a good burger and a good night rest at the Youth Hostel of Vaduz, the bus took me to the new Kurhaus of Gaflei and it was so noisy because a helicopter was shuttling some material in […]

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Review of the first part of the JCT and what’s coming up next

Posted on 01/01/201910/02/2019 by antoine

200 kilometers! That are some 125 miles. I didn’t finish the trail because of the bad weather but I will complete it in 2019 as soon as the snow will be away. There are some 100 km remaining and it should take me 5-6 days to complete it. Here are some ideas for my next […]

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JCT Day 10 Attempt number 1 Noiraigue to La Baronne and down to Boudry

Posted on 22/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

20 km 800m up/1000m down 6 hoursTotal 204 km It was an interesting day! After a good night of rest in Travers and a good breakfast, I headed back to the trail in Noiraigue. First time that I did not saw the end of this stage indicated on the hiking indicator. Maybe because this was […]

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JCT Day 9 Vue des Alpes To Noiraigue

Posted on 21/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

22 km 860m up/1400m down 7 hoursTotal 186 km

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JCT Day 8 Chasseral to Vue-des-Alpes

Posted on 20/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

20 km 700m up/1050m down 6 hoursTotal 164 km

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JCT Day 7 Frinvillier to Chasseral

Posted on 19/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

17 km 1300m up/540m down 6.5 hoursTotal 144 km After a steep start we went out of the fog and it was still cold. We used the welcomed warmth of the sun to have a break. The path up to the Chasseral was nice but quite windy at the end. As it was not possible […]

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JCT Day 6 Weissenstein to Frinvillier

Posted on 18/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

24 km 720m up/1450m down 6.5 hoursTotal 127 km 15th November 2018 The morning was cold and although the nice sunrise I was not really willing to get out of my comfy sleeping bag. After a fast breakfast I met my sister at the cable station, she walked the two next stages with me through […]

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JCT Day 5 Balstahl to Weissenstein

Posted on 17/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

20 km 1300m up/540m down 6.5 hoursTotal 103 km 14th November 2018 After leaving Balstahl I knew that the trail was getting up in the cloud and I also knew that there was sun up there (webcam are helping…). After a great Breakfast at the hotel,  I started to walk again and motivated. The first […]

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