We scheduled an early morning breakfast, eager to get out on the trail. It was a cloudy morning, but today’s hike was supposed to be adventurous – walking over glaciers and climbing ladders over a mountain pass. The trail quickly lead us over the steep Col de Roux....
Due to all of the boulder hopping the day before, Nuthin and I both woke up with injuries. My knees were hurting and Nuthin had a bad knee and ankle. Today’s hike was an easy 3-hour walk, and mostly downhill to the small town of Les Haudères. We slept in and had a...
Today’s hike was supposed to be strenuous, roughly 7 to 8 hours long and extreme elevation changes. We were also in a time crunch, the bus we had to catch at the end of the day to Grimentz left at 3:30 pm. We woke up at 5:30 am to have breakfast. Breakfast was not...
Today’s hike was only an estimated 4 hours long but with heavy elevation changes. Getting lost and not hiking much the day before was nice for our injuries. We thought with an easy day today maybe we could get rid of them. We ate breakfast and caught a short bus ride...
The morning started off like any day on the Haute Route, straight on up. The trail steeply led through the woods for about 2 hours before it broke out to an open area. It was overcast, but we could see a beautiful view of snow-covered mountains and the valley below....
We started the morning off enjoying breakfast with our friends from last night. It was a nice way to start out what was supposed to be a beautiful day of hiking to St Niklaus. Gator and I put on our packs and headed out. The trail started out right next to the hotel...
Today was going to be the toughest day yet on the Haute Route and also the most dangerous. We were to start a portion of the trail called the Europaweg. The guidebook warned that if you were not completely surefooted that you should not attempt this part of the trail....
Only two more exciting days in Switzerland! Today would be the last day of hiking the Haute Route and tomorrow we would explore Zermatt. Zermatt is the largest town that we hiked to on the Haute Route, which is ironic because there aren’t any cars allowed in the city...
