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Tag: Via Alpina

Via Alpina Day 18 : Gstaad to Château-d’Oex

Posted on 28/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 18 : Gstaad to Château-d’Oex

Km today : 27Km remaining : 35Nice breakfast and nice day of sleep. I was ready to hit the trail and this time again with some company. My sister and dad will hike with me to l’Etivaz. Me met at the train station and after a little flat the trail went uphill to the Eggli […]

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Via Alpina Day 15 : Kandersteg to Adelboden

Posted on 24/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 15 : Kandersteg to Adelboden

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 […]

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Via Alpina Day 14 : Griesalp to Kandersteg

Posted on 23/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 14 : Griesalp to Kandersteg

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 […]

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Via Alpina Day 13 : Lauterbrunnen to Griesalp

Posted on 22/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 13 : Lauterbrunnen to Griesalp

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 […]

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Via Alpina Day 12 : Grindelwald to Lauterbrunnen

Posted on 21/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 12 : Grindelwald to Lauterbrunnen

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 […]

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Via Alpina Day 11 : Meiringen to Grindelwald

Posted on 20/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 11 : Meiringen to Grindelwald

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 […]

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Via Alpina Day 9 : Engelberg to Meiringen

Posted on 19/07/201929/03/2020 by antoine
Via Alpina Day 9 : Engelberg to Meiringen

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 […]

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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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