Luca In The Alps

🥾 Overview : Location: Gorges du Triège, after Les Marécottes (Valais, Switzerland) Starting Point: Parking area ~100m before the Gorges entrance Duration: 45 minutes to 1 hour (including photo stops and children’s pace) Distance: ~1.5 km loop Elevation Gain: 60 meters Highest Point: 1100 meters Difficulty: Easy to moderate (some vertigo-inducing sections, but safe) Kid-friendly: Yes! Suitable for adventurous kids (tested with a 4-year-old) Highlights: Spiral stairs, narrow gorges, hanging walkways, Mont Blanc Express station Nearby Activities: Zoo and natural rock pool at Les Marécottes This is a short but adventurous family hike starting just above Les Marécottes, near Martigny. Park about 100 meters before the entrance to the Gorges du Triège— do not continue by car , as the road becomes extremely narrow beyond that point. A quick walk brings you to the entrance of the gorges. Along the way, you’ll catch panoramic views of a nearby villa...

This post includes a series of 3 hikes around Charmey. I always did them as separate ones but if you feel very very sporty you can also imagine joinging them. Gorges de Jogne Start point :  Parking near the bridge, 710m Destination : Barrage de Montsalvans, 800m Highest point : Destination Distance : ~2.1 km one way Elevation  gain : ~150 m Time : ~1h30 return Difficulty : Easy The start of this hike is in a parking that you can reach turning right just before the bridge at the bottom of the series of bends to go up to Charmey. From th ere a large path brings you to a series of galleries that makes a good start for the hike. It continues flat at first along the bed og the river with a series of bridges.  Finally you start to climb in the forest until you reach the artificial lake with its dam. It takes just 1h30 return and you find picnic tables at the end. Connecting to the next hike is possible but a bit long as it would require to go all around the lake to Charmey. Vou...

The Jura is 15 minutes away from my home and I go there often, especialy in mid-season (march, april, november) when there is still snow on the Alps. I already published several specific Jura hikes : Le Chasseron Chasseral Mont Tendre Gorges de l'Orbe In this post I collect a few I do less often and I have less memory about. This post also features the only hikes I did in Canton Solothurn and in Canton Jura! Gorges Areuse  (Neuchâtel) Start point :  Champs du Moulin, 610m Destination : Noiraigues, 730m Highest point : Destination Distance : ~4.5 km one way Elevation gain : ~130 m Time : ~6-7h Difficulty : Moderate to challenging Download GPS file You can do this hike in several lengths. Even starting all the way in Boudry it becomes quite long. The best part is the one between Champ du Moulin, where you can park near the Reataurant La Truite, and Noirague where the actual gorges sit. The rest is just a stoll along the river. I don't remember much of it except that it is very g...