With a shaky forecast remaining for the foreseeable future, we said our farewells to the Otztal Valley, and headed north, through Litchenstien and across another border into Switzerland. Just outside Zurich, as promised, the weather picked up and we ended the long drive with a refreshing swim in Greigensee.  From there, we continued over to… Read more

We had a bit of everything today and must have changed our plans at least ten times to fit around the various ‘conditions’ of the day. It all worked out brilliantly in the end though.  Believe it or not, when we wok up in the morning, it was raining and the valley was full of… Read more

Just up the valley from where we are staying is the ski town of Solden, which is home to the start of teh highest tarmaced road in the EU. The ‘Gletscherstrasse’ can take you up to a top car park height of a whopping 2800m in about fifteen minutes. It sounded much better that walking,… Read more

A ‘short walk’ that turned out to be quite a long hike! It’s been tricky to plan much in advance this summer as the weather has had a habit of changing it’s mind rather frequently. However, today’s change was for the better, so we opted for an early start to get up to a nearby… Read more

Another day down at the valley limestone. There are some enormous cliffs here, but quite a lot look loose and scrappy. While searching for the climbs on such a huge swath of rock, it was handy at least to find the names of the climbs at the bottom of the routes. We set off up… Read more

 Down the valley and away from the higher mountains, we found some long (dry!), rock routes at a crag called Tieftal, near a little village called Nassereith. It looked a bit scrappy from below, but actually gave us a great day of multi-pitch climbing.   A scree covered approach was sort lived, then it was… Read more