We survived our night in the primitive Schultzhutte without any ill effects despite the interesting smell of mouse droppings on my pillow. ...

There were clear signs today that the walk was beginning to fizzle out. The scenery was less dramatic and the number of other walkers drop...

What a difference a day makes, woke up stomach back to normal and ready to face the Austrian diet. Zollnersee Hütte

Writing this a day late because last night I was feeling far too sorry for myself to blog. My dodgy stomach, rumbling in the background for...

Christine doesn't like staying in huttes but accepts them as a necessary evil if you want to enjoy this style of walking. I had argued...

Definite improvement on the weather today, so much so that by early afternoon I was wearing shorts. I didn't see anyone else wearing sh...

Weird weather, cloudy on one side of a hill and clear on the other, misty but windy as well. Occasional dramatic views when the light impr...

I lay awake early this morning listening to water running outside, trying to convince myself it wasn't raining. Of course it was and t...

Looking do wn from the  Bödenalpe Today promised to be one of the best days of the whole trip but the dreadful weather turned i...

From today there are three of us - we have been joined by Paul Agius from Spain who is going to walk with us for the rest of the trip. No...

Had originally planned to stay in Ahornach but we are now a day behind schedule and the hotel we had booked could no longer find us a room....

Christine's Guest Blog Apart from a small sting in the tail, my best ever day's high altitude walking. We left the wonderful Ed...

Looked out of the window at 6.45 and the weather looked as bad as ever - had we made the wrong decision yesterday? Within minutes however ...

Stuck at Pfitscherjoch. Had been anticipating bad weather for several days, it arrived today. Heavy rain through the night, thunder light...

Just as yesterday was worse than we expected, today was better. It's all about expectation management. We are busy turning tomorrow in...

Bad day on the walk - sometimes it doesn't work and today was one of them. Two problems: somehow we had not realised that it was a...

Many thanks for Christine's guest blog describing yesterdays' walk, always nice to have another perspective. In the interests of co...

Guest blog from Christine. Another day another huge climb, but good news is my knee seems better. Schwaz is nothing to write home abou...

The Falkenhutte was excellent, perfect location and friendly staff (not a universal feature). I'm used to slightly odd arrangements and...

Day 7 for me, day 1 for Christine, and her first "strike" of the trip; she stopped and wouldn't go any further. After all t...