Sunday, 21-July-2024


After my morning hike in the rain, and a glorious bowl of fondue and a delicious cup of coffee, I was ready for a bit of a rest… which I took.

And then I went hiking again.


Earlier in the week, specifically when I hiked through Gorner Gorge, I noticed an interesting set of signs on a short portion of one of the trails I was on. Something about a “Zermatt fitness trail”… which seemed interesting, especially since Zermatt is particularly conducive to fitness – elevation, mountains, no cars, etc…

What sort of fitness trail would a village in the Swiss Alps have? I needed to find out.



What I found was basically exactly what one would expect a fitness trail to be, regardless of location and elevation – it was a lovely trail, through the mountains, with various workout stations scattered throughout. Jumping jacks, lunges, squats, pull-ups, and push-ups. Lots of -ups.

Today was, in the end, one of my rest days… regardless of how much hiking I was doing. As such, I went light on the fitness trail – just stopping for a single station to do some pull-ups, since those targetted antagonistic muscles to those I’d been using on my hiking poles… and muscles unlikely to be dramatically necessary to the hike I had planned for tomorrow.

It was lovely, it was rainy, and I felt good.

As should be!