Rothus Medien AG, hiking magazine SWITZERLAND

The hiking magazine SWITZERLAND is your base camp for all hiking and travel activities in Switzerland. The hiking magazine, which appears 8 times a year, offers you wonderful and surprising insights into Switzerland, your nature and culture along with the appropriate hikes. (Tour portal with over 150,000 tour tips worldwide, hiking blog, free access to the archive hiking tips and hiking magazine SWITZERLAND reports from 10 years).

Silent giants

Did you know that the most powerful Swiss stone pine, larch, spruce and sycamore maple trees are found in the Swiss Alps? That the oldest tree in Switzerland, a yew tree, could already be 1500 years old? We are talking about forest cathedrals and cult forests, record trees and «treey» guys, dream couples and tree whispers.

Foxy on the trees

You usually admire trees from below. It's different in the Neckertal in the canton of St. Gallen. The treetop path in Mogelsberg leads far up into the tree tops. The terrain also includes a forest adventure trail with many learning and adventure stations where you can learn a lot about the forest and nature.

trekking poles

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Trekking poles relieve pressure on the ankles, knees and hips, they make walking in difficult terrain easier, help to keep your balance and thus ensure greater hiking comfort. Anyone who has got used to “his” stick no longer wants to do without it. But how do you find the right one?

Moonlighting

If you hike through the winding «Chrachen» of the Napf area in summer, you might get smoky fumes in your nose. They are smoke signals from the Romoos coal kilns, which are operated in the forests of the Entlebuch community. The old charcoal craft has flared up here again in recent years.

Off to enjoyment

Three so-called gourmet trails lead around the Black Forest wine town of Durbach. You hike through the vineyards, enjoy views of the Rhine valley, walk to farms and stop for a glass of Durbacher wine. And you can also climb a lookout tower.