Switzerland Archives - Lucy Fuggle

Escaping to Melchsee Frutt and the Hotel frutt Lodge & Spa

I’ve loved spending so much time in the mountains recently. My left knee, however, has not had as much fun. My plans for the next few days (another hike) had to change. If I can’t hike in the mountains, I can go to the spa in the mountains.

Hiking across Vaud on the Swiss Via Alpina, from L’Etivaz – Rossinière – Rochers de Naye – Montreux

This three-day hike has completely changed my idea of Montreux, by finding out what’s around it and above it. Beautiful mountains aren’t just in the Berner Oberland, after all.

Wild swimming in Switzerland’s River Aare every week through winter

For about fifteen years, I hated water. I hated being near it and especially being in it. That’s changed a lot in the last year, starting in Svalbard and continuing in Switzerland throughout the winter.

Hurtling through trees and bouncing off rocks: a slow journey to becoming a trail runner (sort of)

I’m not very good, I’ll emphasise that now. But I love it. I love bouncing off rocks and tree stumps, dodging branches, and seeing how fast I can go downhill. I love occasionally escaping work in the late afternoon and heading up Harder Kulm, the local hill. At 1,321m, it just about qualifies as a mountain.

Walking across the Berner Oberland on the Via Alpina

Every so often, I check in to see how my life is going in different…

Building our relationship with a place day by day, just by looking

I spend a lot of time alone, but a lot of that is time looking out at the mountains. I love hiking in them on solitary weekends and letting the environment help me process what’s going on in life and where I’m heading. Those days make me feel light, happy, and at home.

Hiking Stage 14 of the Via Alpina from Kandersteg to Adelboden

The hiking season passed by too quickly last year, so this year I’m trying to make better use of it. After ticking off two more Via Alpina hikes the previous two weekends (Griesalp-Kandersteg and Engelberg-Meiringen), I decided to continue from where I left off in Kandersteg and head towards Adelboden.

A snowy weekend trek from Arolla to the Glacier de Cheilon & Cabane des Dix

– – – – – May 13-14, 2017 Our Saturday starting point: Arolla, around 12:30 pm and…

Mountain time: looking out at the Engelhörner range, Wetterhorn, and Wellhorn

After nearly a year of living in Meiringen, the mountains I see every day are becoming familiar friends. Yet naming them and knowing their history is another story, something I’ve become more and more ashamed of.