Most of my time spent hiking in Switzerland has been solo. Pick a well known area and you won’t need to worry about being alone on the mountain. For more remote hikes I am careful to be aware of the weather, how exposed the route is, and what options for quick escapes or shetler there are along the way.
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There are two main hiking resources:
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Swiss Mobility and its related app.
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Swiss Topo and its related app.
Route ideas:
Finding a route isn’t a problem. Generally there is too much choice if anything.
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Swiss Mobility mentioned above has a number of specially signed routes.
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MySwitzerland the official tourist website has plenty of suggestions and themes for the whole country.
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Local tourist websites and offices offer plenty of ideas to cover all difficulties (for example in Zermatt). Maps for resorts are often presented in a panoramic format (for example).
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There are a number of official obstacle free routes for the less abled. Additionally routes aimed at families in resorts are also likely to be short and barrier free.
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You can just turn up anywhere and figure out something good to do with a few minutes of looking at where the signs point to and what you can see on a map.
Crowd sourced websites:
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Gelbzeiten.ch photos of signs around the country. A bit redundant now that Swiss Topo lets you calculate routes for free, but it might still provide a good source of ideas for where to go from a starting point.
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Hikr, Komoot, Alltrails etc have plenty of suggestions.
Blogs, at least few examples of some of the better ones:
- Activity workshop. Not updated in the last decade, but a good list of ide
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The doctor says it terminal.
