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Troy Haines

I've been hiking a 3-day stretch of the Haute Route, from Verbier to Louvie hut, to Prafleuri hut, to Arolla.  It's been a great trip, with wonderful hikes, cool, mixed, interesting weather, and what we like to call "entertaining obstacles" along the way.  The Haute Route is the most rugged and remote trip we offer, and quite a few of...

I've been a member of the ATTA, the Adventure Travel Trade Association, for quite a few years now.  I'm not really much of a networker - I haven't needed to be, and it's not my personality anyway.  But I enjoy this group a lot.  When we meet, I get to skip over the obvious stuff and talk about things that...

Last year around this time I was in the Dolomites with Doug Mayer from Run the Alps, and we joined a trail running tour with a local group called Holimites.  It was a short but fun trip with an extremely interesting and memorable group of characters, and turned into one of those nights where your cheeks hurt from laughing so...

Inspiration and gratitude go hand in hand — especially in the Alps. Owner and founder Troy Haines, writing in 2015, shares his thoughts on living life and learning from others. Oliver Sacks died a couple days ago.  Who?  I didn't know much of him at all until about a year ago, when he wrote an article for the NY Times...

I said before that I don't guide as many of the tours anymore, and it's really true.  Last year I didn't guide a single day!  It's not that I don't like it, because I actually quite love getting to meet our folks and getting out on the trail with them.  I particularly love the equalizing effect that being on the...

Hohbalmen is, without a doubt, one of the best hikes in Zermatt.  Yet for some reason - I don't know why - I've never written a route description of it for our self-guided tours.  I guess it's because we often send people to Zermatt for 4 days, and if you hike Hohbalmen you're going to cover 2 areas that are...