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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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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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JCT Day 4 : Belchenfluhe to Balstahl

Posted on 16/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

16 km 950m up/1150m down 5 hoursTotal 83 km 13th November 2018 Rain rain rain! I was more than happy to get a hotel room in Balsthal. After my first night in my tent and getting up in the morning, it almost started to rain immediately. The walk to Balsthal was nice but wet. I […]

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JCT Day 3 : Salhöhe to Belchenfluhe

Posted on 15/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

Day 320 km 800m up/650m down 6 hoursTotal 67 km12th November 2018 After my dad hiked the two first stages with me, my mom and aunt joined me for this third stage. It was a great opportunity because I misread the bus timeplan and was too lazy either to walk back to Salhöhe or to […]

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JCT Day 2 : Brugg to Salhöhe

Posted on 14/11/201830/10/2019 by antoine

23 km 750m up/440m down 6 hoursTotal 48 km 11th November 2018 Rainy in the morning , sunny in the afternoon. We started under a light rain which stayed with us for a few hours. After getting out of the city of Baden, the path is is going through a forest and then through farmland […]

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