Hiking/Trekking

'12 - Jungfrau, Switzerland

We'd done a fair bit of single-day hiking throughout New England, and even a few multi-day, assisted by the AMC mountain huts, but we had the opportunity to visit one of the kids in a study-abroad program, so it seemed only natural to explore trekking in the Jungfrau.

This was our first multi-day trekking adventure, which means we were unprepared, didn't know how to pack well, and were set to make all sorts of novice mistakes.

All that said, it turned into a very memorable experience, laying the ground work for many more multi-day, international adventures ahead!

One of the key practices we learned, was when bringing extra clothing beyond the hiking gear, plan for a multi-day hike that returns to the origin - that way, we can leave a suitcase at the start-end point - hugely helpful!

Browse the blogs below to read about our adventures in the Jungfrau region.

Trekking in the Jungfrau

Truly amazing! I can only attempt to describe in words our experience in the Jungfrau region of Switzerland. I say attempt, because in this case, we’ll let the pictures do the talking – with thousands of words… A bit of context and background… We started planning our trip/hike in Switzerland nearly a year prior to departure – researching on the net, collecting maps, reading blogs, lots of great information out there… After various early plans, we settled on arriving in

Wilderswil and the Swiss Alps

Here we are, young(er) and overpacked for our first european hiking adventure. In hindsight, packing way too much gear, but then what did we know at the time. We flew through Paris, on our way to Zurich, then a train to Wilderswil, a very small village in the Jungfrau region of the Swiss Alps. Wilderswil is a few minute south of Interlaken, just entering the Lauterbrunen valley. A cute little town – very swiss. We arrived by train from Zurich,

Warning: Undefined variable $anchor in /home/tcl4a5vxwoss/public_html/weblog/wp-content/themes/pmd unified/category-hiking.php on line 241