Due to my hiking guide training and other circumstances, I was quite a bit late organizing this year's hut hike. Usually, I book the hut at the very beginning of the year, but when I finally took a look in April, it wasn't that easy to still find a hut with enough space for me and my six friends that wanted to join. In the end, the best option among the few possible huts was the Lidernen hut, as it was reachable easy enough and there were plenty of nice trails in the area. Un

While I had done a few alpine climbs before, I never did one where I had to walk over a proper glacier. So far, it had either been without snow at all, or the glaciers were that far gone already that I could just walk over it. For a long time I had it in my mind to start doing those glacier treks, but a few things were holding me back: the gear that I would've had to purchase, a course that I would've had to visit to learn the handling and the guided tours that I would've had

In my age, the celebration on New Year's Eve isn't that important anymore. :) So, I had long since decided to take it quiet this year and...

When I had a week off work in the middle of October, I decided to pay our most southern canton another visit. Staying in a hotel in...

There are some mountains on my bucket list that are on it since seemingly forever. :) One of them was the Haldensteiner Calanda. Having...

Life has kept me busy this year, as I’m still right in the middle of a training course to become an official hiking guide. It’s been...

If you have a look at my blog every now and then, you might already have come across the occasional hut hike post and yep, here comes...

6 years ago, I came across one of the most spectacular hikes in Switzerland. Located in the popular Churfirsten area, the route is known...

In the beginning of this blog, I more or less wrote about every hike I did. Over the past couple of years however, that simply wasn't...

Last year, I made the promise to write about a winter hike during this season, but as the winter of 2022/2023 was going down in history...