The Via Alpina as a guide
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February 18th 2023
Let us hope that the year 2023 will be a year and also a hiking year as we have experienced in the time before the COVID pandemic… The good signs are there!
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August 10th 2022
Last Monday, August 8th, I had hiked to the Hintergrathütte hut, at 2.661 metres at the foot op the Ortler. Today I chose a hike to another mountain hut, to the Düsseldorferhütte hut high up the mountain slopes at the right side of the Suldenbach valley – on 2.721 meters. This hike had not been spectacular from the sportive point of view, (the last part ‘though was very steep!), but it was certainly the case as to the views and the space: the energy of this mountain world, the “triumvirate” of Königspitze, Monte Zebrù and ”King Ortler”, was strongly tangible, also from afar. This energy was somehow even more powerful, because the complete panorama unfolded itself in front of me! Therefore many pictures will follow…
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August 8th 2022
Yesterday morning I left Mals and arrived after a short trip by train and bus in Sulden. Ich checked in at my trusted Hotel Nives. Again my room was very nice – with a view on the Ortler which was hiding behind some clouds in the afternoon – the weather hadn’t not quite improved yet, but it was pleasantly cool ‘though. In the evening the sky got a peculiar shade of purple – quiet a stunning sight! Today the sun was shining again and enlightened the Ortler – the promise of a beautiful day.
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March 18th 2022
After my stay in the Engadin, in Scuol, I continued my trip to South Tyrol, to Sulden am Ortler on last Tuesday, March 15th. I had been there before: from August 1th to 15th included, 2019 and I had loved it! Therefore I was very curious how I would experience that imposing mountain landscape in the snow. I have in the past days relived my adventures from the previous trip – as far as that was possible in the snow-covered landscape… Nevertheless I had more that enough nice and interesting moments, to start with the trip from Scuol to Sulden. I travelled by Postal car via Martina at the Swiss-Austrian border, and from there with another bus over the Reschen Pass along the
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January 17th 2022
Today is the day that has been named Blue Monday. This indication is somewhat negative: it could be possible that the implementation of all “good intentions” made at the start of January has failed, that nice features as holidays and other leisure options seem far away…
I myself have a more positive attitude: the sun is always shining, no matter what and regardless of the amount of clouds floating in front of it. This is my experience over and over again during my hikes which in the past year have been limited to the Netherlands due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope ‘though that I will be able to travel to and in the Alps to continue my journey on the Via Alpina!
Impressions of the sun without clouds, with or behind the clouds in the Low Countries around the year:
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January 4th 2021
The Via Alpina: the great collection of long distance hiking trails in the Alps, of which the longest Trail runs through all eight Alpine countries, from Trieste in Italy to Monte Carlo, the Principality of Monaco. The Trails consist of 342 day stages in total.
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February 19th 2020
The Via Alpina: the great collection of long distance hiking trails in the Alps, of which the longest Trail runs through all eight Alpine countries, from Trieste in Italy to Monte Carlo, the Principality of Monaco. The Trails consist of 342 day stages in total.
Since 2011 there is the official website about the Via Alpina. Inspired by this project I started in early 2017 to develop the website “Pauline hikes” about the Via Alpina and hiking in the mountains in general. In the fourth year I just inform you that I am still enthusiastic about hiking on and around the Via Alpina! Therefore I hope that also in this year you, dear readers, would like to follow me on this journey! “The road is a destination“.
The last five blogs are – as always – mentioned in the sidebar. If you would like to read previous blogs, please click here: on the page of the Archives you will be guided to the blog you are looking for.
Best regards,
Pauline
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October 3rd 2019
Today I left in the 10.18 hrs Postal car for Simplon-Dorf over the Simplon Pass. Because of today’s fine weather I had planned to hike a part of a stage of the Via Alpina: Stage 6 of the Blue Trail officially runs from the Simplon Pass to the village of Zwischbergen, on the border to Italy. Today I hiked from Simplon-Dorf to the Simplon Pass, a part of this stage and in the reverse direction! And again in an aera I didn’t know. Continue reading
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October 2nd 2019
The rain that had set in last night had stopped this morning, but the outside world looked however quite like autumn: the top of the Glishorn rising high above Brig had disappeared into the clouds and despite the small patches of blue the sky was just overcast… At Hotel Europe they had apparently had the idea that Autumn had really started, because in the breakfast room there was a nice autumnal arrangement on a table with many shades of orange. For today I had planned to go to Eischoll: a village on a mountain shoulder above the left bank of the Rhône downstream from Brig. It is some 20 minutes by train to Raron in the Rhône valley – and some 10 minutes with a tiny cable car to Eischoll. When last year I had been hiking several stages of the Via Alpina, I could see the village with its characteristic white church at the opposite side all the time. Continue reading
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October 1st 2019
Today I have made another attempt to start Stage 95 of the Red Trail of the Via Alpina: from Fiescheralp to Riederalp. Therefore I took the train to Fiesch again: on arrival again a large crowd got off the train and into the Postal car, that would also stop at the valley station of the cable car to the middle station Fiescheralp. At that bus stop I didn’t get off: this time I didn’t like it either… Meanwhile I had the impression that all those crowds, like “distaster tourists”, wanted to have a look how the glaciers were melting and that it could be the last time these glaciers could be seen. Unfortunately it is a fact that the glaciers are melting and that it is a worrying development as well of course. I just didn’t want to be part of that “disaster tourism”… The Postal car continues it course to the village of Fieschertal. There I got off. Continue reading
Pauline
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