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…
Another three months have passed since our last update. They have been the busiest three months in Swiss Alpine Adventures history. Since March we’ve run over 60 events including 8 mountain bike courses, weekly afterwork rides and weekend tours to locations such as the Jura, Central Switzerland, Wallis and Graubunden. Read more…
The topic of mountain bikers and hikers gets brought up in different media outlets every now and again. This week I picked up my local newspaper and found the thorny subject mentioned not once but twice! One article describes an incident on a trail very close to my home where Read more…
The blog has been asleep for a couple of months now, that doesn’t mean Swiss Alpine Adventure has been sleeping though. Since our last post we’ve had a number of after-work rides, a weekend away in Engadin and a beginners MTB skills course. The feedback has been great and we Read more…
A day of trail riding in the Alps. 40km and 5000m of descent on some of the best single track you are likely to find anywhere.
Normally at this time of year biking is restricted to trails below about 1800m. Last weekend we were able to ride up to 2100m with very little snow and got some great trails on the way back down. Mountain Biking Klosters – Chur in 5 minutes. from SwissAlpineAdventure on Vimeo.
After an amazing start with plenty of early season powder days winter has become a touch disappointing, at least in terms of snow. There have been surprisingly few powder dumps and long periods of warm weather since Christmas. Conditions in the mountains are still great for skiing/boarding on piste with Read more…
Swiss Alpine Adventure kicked off its winter season in the Jakobshorn in Davos last weekend and we were treated to blue skies and surprisingly good snow for so early in the winter. Who’d have guessed that we’d get our first powder turns already in November!? More snow has been falling Read more…
Day 5: GornergratDay 5 dawned with a perfect blue sky, breakfast was quickly disposed of (a bit too quickly for one of us!) and then it was off to the train station to get our bag sent to Bettmeralp and get on the train up to Gornergrat. There were a Read more…