Posts by Troy Haines
Ready to hike to Obersteinberg? You’ll start from the floor of the Lauterbrunnen Valley. The Jungfrau region in the Bernese Oberland is alr
A night at Obersteinberg is a highlight for everyone on our Bernese Oberland tours. It’s peaceful, beautiful, and inspiring. And the fresh moun
Is there such a thing as the BEST HIKE in the Alps? After leading hiking tours for over 20 years, I have a lot of favorite hikes throughout Swi
Soglio is an almost impossibly charming village in the Bregaglia valley in Southeastern Switzerland. Not far from famous St Moritz and cozy Pon
Engstlenalp is one of our favorite alps. An historic inn and scenic farm, tucked at the end of a pretty valley above Meiringen. There
Susie, Jack and their daughter Katya joined us on a guided Bernese Oberland Traverse this summer. Susie’s letter thanking us for the trip
The Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It’s a massive river of ice 14 miles long and 3000 ft thick at Koncordiaplatz, it
We love family trips to the Alps. There is so much to see and do, and it is an adventure the kids will never forget. The Hollenbaugh family b
The Hardergrat ridge, above Interlaken, is beginning to get some well-deserved buzz. Dan Patitucci’s evocative photos of running along th
The Göschenertal is not all that well known, even within Switzerland. But it’s a fabulous valley in a very central location, just outsid
The Niesen is a very striking, almost perfectly pyramidal peak just south of Lake Thun, in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland. It’s not
My kids really want to go back to Switzerland. I know this because at least once a month, they’ll say something like “Dad, are we g
The first time I went to Grindelwald, I didn’t know what to expect. It was 1991, I had just started working in Basel for a summer, and I
I read a quote from Annie Dillard that I like, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Having spent about a
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 tri
I’ve been a member of the ATTA, the Adventure Travel Trade Association, for about 3 years now. I’m not really much of a networker &
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
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
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!
I think Hohbalmen is one of the best hikes in Zermatt. And for some reason, I don’t know why, I’ve never written out a route descri
Zürich. I don’t really spend much time here, to be honest. Switzerland’s largest city has the exciting reputation as the
I just read an article this morning claiming that research shows that planning vacations is actually more fun than taking them, which I think mus
I’ve been guiding in the Alps for 15 years. I’ve been to a lot of places, some that I’ve loved and some that don’t leav
…And it changed her life!
Deborah Charlap has been with us for a little over a year now. This past June, she took her first trip to Switz
