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A guide for recreational hikers featuring day hikes.
This newest revision of Walking Easy- Swiss and Austrian alps adds new base villages, new day hikes and new information for recreational walkers of all ages. You will enjoy the helpful hints, hotel suggestions and additional walks through cities like Innsbruck, Lucerne, Salzburg, Zurich and Vienna. The charming villages in the mountains and alps of Switzerland and Austria are filled with a well-maintained, well- signed network of trails. If you like to walk/hike, you'll enjoy WALKING EASY- SWISS AND AUSTRIAN ALPS
This newest revision of Walking Easy- Swiss and Austrian alps adds new base villages, new day hikes and new information for recreational walkers of all ages. You will enjoy the helpful hints, hotel suggestions and additional walks through cities like Innsbruck, Lucerne, Salzburg, Zurich and Vienna. The charming villages in the mountains and alps of Switzerland and Austria are filled with a well-maintained, well- signed network of trails. If you like to walk/hike, you'll enjoy WALKING EASY- SWISS AND AUSTRIAN ALPS
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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it is a very nice book but not as good as i thought. Any way it is worth taking when you are hiking in Alps
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good for planning, not for the trails
24 July 2009
Format:Paperback
I used this book (along with a few others) to help plan a 2 week trip to Switzerland in June 09 with my family. The book focuses on hiking from: Zermatt, Saas-Fee, Lauterbrunnen, Kandersteg, Samedan, Arosa, Engelberg, and Meiringen in Switzerland (half of the book is devoted to Austrian hikes). For each hiking base, there are several walks of varying ability (easy to challenging), along with other options in case of rain. This book should NOT be used as a trail guide--the descriptions are more general of the whole hike, and do not have enough specifics to guide a hike. The maps are useful only to show where a hike is relative to the base city and should not be relied upon. This book needs a serious editing--lots of typo's and some elevation readings that are not to be trusted. I don't think the photos in this book add much and are so generally labeled, that one cannot be sure they represent the hike or area on the page. Based on this book's recommendations, we went to Kandersteg and enjoyed the village and its walks very much.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Walking in Wengen
30 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
We followed the trails suggested in the Bernese Oberland section. We chose a walk rated as having medium diffiulty for the book. The descent was so steep that my 30-something walks-a-mile-to-work-everyday husband was not able to walk at all the next day because of the extreme pain in his knees. We missed out on all our subsequent hiking. We later learned (from our swiss maps) that the red-white-red trail markings meant "paths for experienced hikers". The yellow markings mean paths for everyone. There was no mention of this distinction in the book. And given the book's title, we would have thought that all of the walks would have been pretty easy. What would we have done if we were older or had our children along? I think hikers should ask their hosts in Switzerland to recommend walks. Our hotel (the Hotel Regina in Wengen) had many easy walks to suggest. I'd get a good map and order something better to read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Made our trip
16 May 2006
Format:Paperback
I used this book as a basis for a 3 week trip to the Swiss and Austrian Alps and it was invaluable. We stayed in recommended towns, Lauterburnen, Zermatt, and Alpbach and they were perfect jump off spots for hikes. We are day hikers, so it was nice to return to comfortable hotels in the towns. All of the hikes were on the mark for difficulty and scenery. I combined some of the shorter hikes into longer ones and used a couple of other books to find ways to extend some of the hikes in the book. We had a fantastic vacation and owe much of the success to this book.
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