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Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Saas-Grund February 22nd 2012

I'm not talking about rotisserie chicken, I'm talking about a log house in the Swiss alpes. I've just returned back to Biella after 5 days in Saas Fee/Saas Grund, Switzerland! The family had invited me to join them on this trip before I even arrived in Italy, meaning I'd been looking forward to this trip since November! Every year, they do a house swap and often they choose mountain destinations, ideal for family ski trips! It's such a fantastic way to travel, as you pay nothing for your accomodation (you just have to trust complete strangers in your home). A lot of families in the house swap community have second homes which they generally use for swapping purposes. We arrived in the late evening to the coziest little chalet. The fire was already going and dinner ... read more
Saas Grund
Saas Fee
Swiss cemetery

Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Saas-Grund August 15th 2011

(deutsch siehe unten) Finally, the weather forecast was quite good - after all the rainy weekends in july it was time for our first attempt to climb one of the high mountains (over 4.000m) in Switzerland this year. As we are currently quite busy with work, we decided to start early in the morning on Saturday. We got up at 4 am, went by car to Saas Grund and got into the first cablecar at 7.30 am which brought us up to Hohsaas. We were quite tired but the clear blue sky, the sunshine and the snowcapped Weissmies with its glacier woke us up. It was a real adrenalin rush. We started our ascend over the amazing glacier. There were lots of crevaces, seracs and incredibly beautiful ice formations. The ascend was easy but due to ... read more
Weissmies
Markus at the edge of the glacier
Nina, ready to go




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