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Today’s been an excellent day, and very manageable for my little legs. We had a steep climb right at the beginning of the day. After that, we followed an undulating balcony path all the way to Hotel Weisshorn. It was a lovely path giving us amazing views of the five 4000 metre peaks behind us.... Continue Reading →
We had an easier day today, mainly because we cheated at the end and got the cable car down to save ourselves 800 metres of knee jerking descent. That said we still had a 500 metre ascent to cross Col de Sorebois into the next valley, which was far from easy! We left Cabane de... Continue Reading →
We set off at 8 o’clock knowing we had a big day, with 1680 metres of ascent overall. The first climb to Col de Tsaté was relentless… 1200 metres up in 6 kilometres!! I had a few wobbles early on, thinking I wouldn’t make it, especially in the woods, where we seemed to be constantly... Continue Reading →
There have been tears today because what I thought would be an easy walk turned out to be much more difficult, especially after 2 awful nights’ sleep. We'd expected a nice balcony path meandering along the hillside. However, much of it ended up being very challenging under foot. They were relentless ups and downs over... Continue Reading →
We’ve had a fantastic day walking through snow covered mountains under bright blue skies. Even the sections of the hike I thought would be tedious were fab, and I had no problems on the steep and scary section, even though there was snow on the ground and the support chains were freezing cold! We were... Continue Reading →
This morning we woke to snow, which meant we had to change our plans. It wasn't totally unexpected and had been forecast. However, yesterday evening we went to to bed with rain and a cold wind, but no sign of snow. Two of the people we met at dinner, Martine and Jean-Pascal suggested we climb... Continue Reading →
We took the 2 cable cars from Le Châble to Les Ruinettes. The cloud was low in the valley but the sun was shining. We set off uphill along a road and then turned off onto a beautiful little path following a babbling stream. The views were fantastic, back down into the valley and over... Continue Reading →
We had breakfast, tidied up, packed and left the Airbnb in Kandersteg. It’s been a lovely place to stay, and we’ve done some wonderful walks. I now feel comfortable tackling the Walkers’ Haute Route, although my rucksack feels very heavy! Past experience tells me, I’ll be used to it in a couple of days.🤞 We... Continue Reading →
Today we took the bus to Frutigen, further down the valley, for a change of scenery. I’d been awake for a few hours in the night… annoying but it happens to me quite regularly. Because of this, John let me lie in a bit later than we’d planned, but we still managed to catch the... Continue Reading →
We had planned to hike up to Balmhorn Hut today. However, we awoke to bouncing rain, and low cloud smothering the mountain tops. A lazy morning followed… reading in bed, coffee and breakfast, and catching up on emails and the news. By lunchtime, the rain had stopped, the clouds had lifted a bit, and the... Continue Reading →
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