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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Every so often, I check in to see how my life is going in different…
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.
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.
– – – – – May 13-14, 2017 Our Saturday starting point: Arolla, around 12:30 pm and…
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.