You can’t get much more central in the Alps than Andermatt, but for me it’s often been a place of passing through rather than a destination in itself. At the point where many of the main Swiss passes meets it’s easy to overlook Andermatt as a bike destination in it’s Read more…
A recent discussion on the Swiss Alpine Adventure Facebook Page has brought me to the conclusion that a number of people are not completely familiar with the privileges and restrictions associated with taking your bike on a train in Switzerland. We are incredibly lucky here that the public transport system is Read more…
Those who know me, know that I am not a big fan of using GPS tracks for bike tours. For me a GPS is a restrictive device, you download a track which is usually a route that has been ridden by someone else and then you are more or less Read more…
These days there are services for everything. For those that want to get out on their bikes but perhaps don’t know where to go, or who’s friends don’t share their passion for bike sport there are companies who provide a service and will take you on a bike tour. If Read more…
Life is a constant journey. Sometimes we travel the same roads and sometimes the same roads take us to new places and lead us into the unknown. This weekend our road led south through the Gotthard tunnel to the Italian speaking Canton of Ticino. With a bad weather forecast for Read more…
As 2012 draws to a close and we are in the process of planning 2013 it’s time to look back at some of the many memories we shared during the year. If you’ve not been out with us in 2012, make it a new years resolution to join us in Read more…
Sometimes those tours that we did way back when I first came to Switzerland can be forgotten about and it’s only when you go back to do them again with a group that you realise how much fun they really were. I first rode the route Einsiedeln – Hoch-ybrig – Read more…
It’s true, we’ve been ignoring the blog more and more of late. Truth be told we’ve been working on so much other stuff to improve Swiss Alpine Adventure that we pretty much forgot about the blog. We’ve been keeping people up to date through our Facebook page and working on Read more…
Swiss Alpine Adventure came about almost as an accident. After attending a bike event in 2007 a friend suggested that it might be a good idea to organise some group rides for newcomers to the Zurich area to show them some of the local trails and to provide a way Read more…
I finally got around to ticking off a tour that had been on the “to-do” list for quite some time. The Scalettapass/Kesch hut tour is one I’ve read quite a lot about in various places and always found it described starting in Davos heading up the Dischma valley to Scalettepass Read more…