Walkingman

A few days after arriving in Wolhusen, I was back there again for the next stage of the walk. After the arrival in Zug, the two subsequent walks, though not flat, have not involved going to high places. There were only two small stretches between Zug and Wolhusen that were above 750m. But after Wolhusen,…

I left Luzern heading westwards. The first few metres of the route were familiar, as I had twice previously left Luzern going west, once when I was walking the Via Jakobi to Geneva, and last year, when  I came back from Luzern via Willisau and Langenthal. But this year was a little different. On those…

When I came back to the trail, I found myself arriving in Zug on a cloudy morning. A low mist hung over the lake, but it didn’t deter me. I was confident that the mist would burn off later and that I would have a fine day in the end. I made my way along…

Having finished the day at Altmatt on my last outing, that was where I started the next time. Altmatt is a tiny hamlet, but it still manages to have a train station, which is always the focal point for my starting a walk. I reached there in the early morning, with a mist still lingering…

After the flatness of the route from Weesen to Lachen, I was glad to be getting back onto more mountainous ground for the next stage. It was a cold but sunny morning in April when I got off the train in Lachen and headed on my way. I passed the three wise men on my…

I have not written here in quite a long time. It is not that I have not been walking. I have walked some more parts of the Alpine Panorama Trail, but I have simply not had the time to write everything up and post it here. So now I am going to try to catch…

After my last outing in the snow, I went out and bought a pair of snowshoes. I have walked without them for over forty years, but after my last walk in deep snow, I have finally succumbed to the temptation. And after such a purchase, I just had to try them out. With that in…

In my first two outings on the Alpine Panorama Weg, I was bemoaning the lack of snow. But in the time since then, snow has fallen almost all over Switzerland. I could not let that pass without an making another trip to continue along the trail, even in the snow. So it was that last…

The Alpine Panorama Weg is 510km long, and the guidebook presents it in 29 stages. The first three stages of the route are listed in that guidebook as Rorschach to Trogen, 18km Trogen to Appenzell, 12km Appenzell to Schwägeralp, 18km The distance of 12km between Trogen and Appenzell is too short to justify the journey…

Man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiss ist. Or in English: strike while the iron is hot. With my objectives clear for the year, it was time to start work on achieving them. Once I saw a day coming with the prospect of reasonable weather, I made my plans, bought the train tickets, and…