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13 August 2018 at 16:46:15 #817858

Love this forum! My sisters and I are doing a bucket list hiking trip to Switzerland in September 6 – 15. Our grandparents were born in Switzerland so we feel a strong connection.

We are all experienced hikers, albeit now in our 60’s so we’ve slowed down a bit. Our itinerary is Zurich, Appenzell, Luzern, Wengen, Zermatt and back to Zurich with the longest time being spent in the BO (5 days) with Wengen as our home base.

Any suggestions on “must do” hikes would be appreciated! We have a list already, but would like to hear from people who have experienced these hikes:

• Faulhornweg,
• Eiger Trail,
• Lauterbrunnen Valley,
• Thrift Glacier,
• Mannlichen to Kleine Scheidegg

if we can do three, what are the best ones, and what kind of weather should we expect? Thanks so much. We can’t wait to visit your beautiful country.

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14 August 2018 at 16:27:29 #894117

Hi JCA and welcome to MySwissAlps!

The Faulhornweg described here: http://www.myswissalps.com/hi king/first-schynigeplatte
is fairly demanding, as is the Eiger trail.

if you search the forum (search box top right) you’ll find lots of threads to help you out:

• http://www.myswissalps.com/fo rum/topic/the-faulhornweg
• http://www.myswissalps.com/fo rum/topic/how-to-visit-eiger-trail-and-grindelwald-first

The Lauterbrunnen trail is more of a walk (http://www.myswissalps.com/hi king/lauterbrunnen-stechelberg) and Mannlichen to Kleine Scheidegg (http://www.myswissalps.com/hi king/maennlichen-kleinescheidegg) is also known as “the Grannies Trail” so both are simple to do.

[Slowpoke]

15 August 2018 at 16:32:29 #894118

Hi JCA-

Lots of options – Lucas has pointed you in the right direction.

Since “We are all experienced hikers,” this feature-rich topo map will prove useful:

map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&lang=en&bgLa yer=ch.swisstopo.pixel karte-farbe&layers=ch.bav.ha ltestellen-oev,ch.swisstopo.swiss tlm3d-wanderwege&E=2637955.0 0&N=1161515.00&zoom=6

I’ve turned on hiking trails and public transport overlays.

Hiking trails are color coded:

http://www.alpenwild.com/stat icpage/trail-signs-in-the-swiss-alps/

Slowpoke

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15 August 2018 at 16:39:22 #894119

Thank you. The links are very helpful.

[Slowpoke]

15 August 2018 at 17:12:06 #894120

You are welcome.

Glad it helps.

This website is also useful, and is a good resources for the “named” hiking routes. If the route is one of the named ones ( heavy green lines on the maps) clicking on it will bring up tremendous detail about height profiles, accommodations, nearby features of interest:

http://www.schweizmobil.ch/en /wanderland/hiking-in-switzerland.html

The Via Alpina passes through your area of interest.

http://www.schweizmobil.ch/en /hiking-in-switzerland/route-01.html

The next two links are available on that page.

map.schweizmobil.ch/?lang=en&land=wanderlan d&route=1&bgLayer=pk&l ayers=Wanderland&seaso n=summer&resolution=25 0&E=2659640&N=1182580

images2.schweizmobil.c h/files/HP_WL_001_00.p df

Also, Lucas gave you some links from this page, so you may have seen it already:

Scroll down for hikes in the region.

Slowpoke