Lazarow World-Hike-About

I have decided that my travel writer has not taken into consideration all our female readers who would probably enjoy reading a piece on fashion every now and then. Over the past 7 days, while hiking the magificent trails here in the Swiss Alps, my eyes have been roving over our fellow adventurers. We have come across many Swiss and German people, some Italians and French, plenty of Chinese and Indians, a handful of English and the odd American. (very odd!) and I guess that is the category we fit into. All I can say is that the European equivalent of REI stocks must be soaring. Each and every one are kitted out in the best of the best hiking paraphenalia. From their highly porous undershirts to their reversible UV controlled pants, eco-friendly shirts and thermal jackets and their ski caps or bandanas in beautiful styles and colors. Most importantly, they ALL carry hiking poles in every color and design - definitely an essential on the trails for young and old. Don'...

Greetings, with Improving Weather, Tuesday . “Are you going to come out from under that bed, Jeffrey or should I drag you from there?” our editor, in a fiery mood, called. It all started when she informed us that today’s hike would be all of 8.5 hours. Should a person have to suffer this much? Fortunately, our editor is a reasonable person and she reduced it to ‘only’ 5 hours because she suspected the snowfall overnight might cause added obstacles. She didn’t know that we were actually holding out for 6 hours. Tough guy! Something to be said for the correctly ‘pitched tantrum’ In order to reduce the hiking time, we took a gondola to Schreckfeld. Perhaps we really are slowing down but it was the first time. The hike was over eight miles but the going for two hours was in heavy snow (ground only) and on a very tricky and slippery trail. In this locale, the trails are either mountain walks, which are very steep but reasonably smooth; or mountain trails in which case they are quite rough ...