Category: Swiss walks

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the last week or two I tested the Garmin ForeRunner 570 when navigating from Crans-Montana to Leukerbad. I also tried a group run navigating with the 570 during a Décathlon run, before spotting that the Coros Nomad and Coros Apex 4 offered full map navigation without paying the Garmin premium price.…

Reading Time: 2 minutesTomorrow there is an event in Cossonay that could easily involve cycling fourty kilometres to get there, and cycling whilst there, and then cycling back. The low estimate would be an eighty kilometre day and the high estimate would be at least a century. I was looking at the train, from Nyon…

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Monday we were running in the rain, and getting soaked and two women were discussing Caribana, Paléo, Festineuch and more. During another hike people were speaking about Montreux, and during a book discussion someone said “I don’t think I can be at the next book discussion because of a concert. Now,…

Reading Time: 4 minutesFor many months I have been using a Fiat 500 and I usually charged it to around 80 percent before stopping the charge because the last 20 percent took an hour, and I paid for electricity that was wasted as heat, when the car trickled charged to one hundred percent. I knew…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe hike from Aminona to Leukerbad is a 22km+ hike with 1200m+ of climbing. You begin by catching the cable car from Sierre to Crans-Montana, and then the bus to Aminona, before walking along the road for a bit, before turning right and disappearing into the woods and walking along trails that…

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday one group I know were cycling around the Léman with a détour through the Alps, the second group were cycling from L’Horloge Fleurie around the lake at a speed of 27km/h. A third group were cycling from Divonne to Vélomania around Vaud. A fourth were cycling a loop towards the Jura…

Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday evening I was playing with Strava heat maps, and especially with my own walking heat maps. In looking at the heat map I see deep red marks along the rads that are currently blocked by road works. You might ask “So what, who cares?” The answer is, of course, that I…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf, like me you still use Facebook, then you will have noticed a dark design pattern. The pattern is to hide hyperlinks to stories in the comments, rather than to make it easy to click straight through. Facebook has convinced content creators and social media monkeys that if they post the hyperlink…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are familiar with the situation. We look at Saturday and we think: I want to do this, but then a week or two before you see that something else is available so you think “Oh now I want to do that”. The result is that the thing you were certain…

Reading Time: 2 minutesMy first thought was that the writing style is not that good, but I think it has more to do with translating a special kind of writing from one language to another without the character of what is being said, being lost in translation. Two of the key thoughts is that it…