4-5 Day family hiking trip to Swiss Alps
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Hello:
We (family of 4 with kids age 10 and 13 who like to hike) are trying to plan a last minute trip to hike for 4 or 5 days in late June! We are so excited but have been overwhelmed in trying to figure out all the options and potential itineraries. We are used to planning things ourselves–but since everything is new to us, it feels like so many choices to make—and also feels like if we knew the area it would of course be so much easier!
So, in case anyone has the time to steer us in the right direction….here is what we are aiming for:
1. We love the idea of leaving from a town and hiking hut to hut for our 4 night journey—but maybe it would be way easier to have a home base? We just think it will be more fun to have to hike to our next place to sleep, but will change our vision if it just doesn’t make sense.
2. We would like to hike for 4-5 hours each day but could go longer. We are not a super fast crew, but we hike a lot as a family and we keep on moving.
3. The huts in the mountains look like such fun—but it’s unclear whether at this point we would be too late to book a family room–and we would also be happy to be in an inn or whatever. We would love to cross by small towns (or stay in them) when that makes sense—and love the idea of bakeries or good coffee to start our morning.
4. And in the back of our mind, we wonder given the timing of our visit, late June, whether it would make more sense to go to the Dolomites since it may still be too snowy in Switzerland? And I can’t tell whether those would be two totally different experiences—or whether the two are somewhat similar in landscape and terrain.
We have not purchased plane tickets yet so could fly in to whichever airport makes the most sense. I know that it can be expensive to get around so we are trying not to put together a trip that will require lots of expensive transportation—but at the same time, we are doing this adventure so we want to be sure we don’t miss out on some incredible experiences due to cost. Is there an obvious itinerary we should plan? Inns/huts we should plan around? towns we should be sure to go through?
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