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…
Avalanches scare the living sh!t out of me. The thought of being crushed under a mass of moving snow, having snow force it’s way into my lungs instead of oxygen and slowly suffocating entombed in something akin to cold concrete (if the trauma hasn’t killed me first) is absolutely horrifying. Read more…
With the first real snowfall of the winter having just arrived it was time to drag the skis and boards out of the cellar and to head back into the mountains. Having checked the snowfall, avalanche report and weather forecast it looked like the upper Rhone Valley was the place Read more…
Autumn has come and as I write the trails are as good as they’ve been all year. Dry, dusty and leaf strewn trails with colours straight out of a post card are there to greet anyone who is getting out of the house on weekends and enjoy the amazing playground Read more…
It was always going to be risky going looking for new trails in the height of the summer holiday season. But, even at the busiest times of the year you can always find trails to yourself if you look hard enough. We enjoyed a few days in the Aletsch area Read more…
The last couple of months are all a bit of a blur. We’ve run a number of courses, had a few day trips to the Jura and Aegeri and many of our now traditional Afterwork rides. Our road riders have been very active too with many an alpine pass scaled Read more…
I’ve had the Val d’Anniviers on my radar for some skiing for quite a while now. We’ve explored the area a little on bikes and got the feeling that there had to be some great skiing during the winter. So, when I got the chance to go there just after 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…
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…