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1,783 km
392:13 h
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- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
This stage exceeded my expectations. It was quite the adventure with bridges and stairs underneath some cliff faces. The walk up and above the tree line took a little while at first, but was worth it.
Cabane Europahutte is rad and so are the staff. It was my favourite hut experience of the trip!
- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
This was a great day. I recovered nicely from my food poisoning the day before.
We had our first views of the Zermatt mountains rounding a corner on the way down.
There was an interesting rock scramble from a recent slide just before the corner.
We later ate delicious rosti's from a cute restaurant on
- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
This was one of the hardest days of my life. It was literal hell.
I got served a severely undercooked hamburger the night before at Restaurant Le Besso in Zinal. I foolishly ate half of it before complaining.
Needless to say I got food poisoning and had a very rough sleep, if any at all.
The show had to
- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
This stage gave us neat views of a huge hydroelectric dam walking down the valley in the morning. I found the uphill afterwards up the pass to be quite challenging in the late morning heat and sun.
Just after summiting you enter a ski field with lifts. There's a rooftop terrace on top of the lift to
- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
We loved this stage. It was basically straight uphill from our wonderful La Sage Boutique Hotel. We had a much needed rest day there. The staff and food are amazing. I highly recommend doing the same.
Approaching the glacier and cabane up top were very memorable. The last push up was quite the grunt!
- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
Today was a nice casual walk down the valley and a slight uphill at the end to La Sage.
We were in need of some chill time after the previous three intense stages.
Our highlight was stopping at the Pension de
lac Bleu for coffee. The Italian guy running it was quite entertaining and made us some wonderful
- Jimmy VegasAugust 16, 2024
We experienced the scariest moment of our entire Haute Route adventure this day. We had a standoff with an incredibly aggressive black bull beside Lake Dix, on the road between rock walls. It was hyper focused on us and threatening charges with its hoof. (I posted a photo of the bull just as we realized
The grand finale. The traditional Europaweg high mountain route was closed this season due to a landslide. We walked down to around Randa and walked up the valley to Zermatt. Still a wonderfully beautiful end to our journey!
The suspension bridge is an engineering marvel. My knees shook a bit walking
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