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Ultimate guide to 85 accessible dayhikes & multi-day hikes in 10 regions.

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58 of 58 humans found the following review helpful.
If you buy one book on Switzerland buy this one!
By kmulak@corporatevisualsinc.com
My wife and I have hiked the Swiss Alps for 4 successive summers. The Lieberman book got us hooked on Switzerland. The book is the most informative resource for "off-the-beaten track" travel in Switzerland. Perhaps the biggest feature of the book is the detail in which each walk is described almost from "boulder to boulder" so even the novice hiker may feel convinced in the alps. Secondly, the book opens up a whole new world for travellers not intimate with "vacation apartments". These rental properties are the REAL "bargains" that may be found in a stereotypically highpriced country for travellers. It is evident the Liebermans have written the book with passion and have uncovered various concealed gems such as the villages of "Ardez" and "Les Haudéres" that most travel guides overlook. If you didn't have this book you'd miss extremely pleasing remote villages and hikes that are well within reach of the intermediate hiker. I have purchased both editions and am planning to buy their new book on Mountain Inns...its in all likelihood great!

39 of 39 persons found the following review helpful.
Excellent description of the best hikes in the Swiss Alps.
By A
Walking Switzerland-The Swiss Way was an worthful source of quality information. I used the book to help me choose which hikes in the Val d'Herens, in the Saas Valley, and around Zermatt would best suit my tastes for the duration of a two week hiking trip. Each hike was described accurately. The book does not integrate wasted prose on "touristy" information, but rather concentrates on the details of each person hike. The writers have conservatively coordinated the details (how long, how high, what views may be seen at each pass) of each hike. Using the book, I was competent to select a new hike each day. I knew what to suppose with each new hike, and I was never disappointed with the book. This is the most informative, most exact book of it is kind that I have seen. I commend it to anybody who wishes to hike in the Swiss Alps, and who needs a good deal of ideas of precisely where to go and what to expect. Information is not fixed to the Valasian Alps. Hikes in the Jura, Engadine, Ticino, as well as in the Eiger, Moench, Jungfrau region are described as well.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Would have been great if there was accomodation information
By Lisa Bailey
I have the 1987 edition of this book so the newer edition may include hut and hotel information. However, for a book where part of the title is "From Vacation Apartments, Hotels, Mountain Inns, and Huts" there is NO hotel info or any selective information on how to book a stay at a hut.

Also, the hikes are fixed to very little areas. Val d'Herens is not listed on any of my maps and there are no hikes listed for Verbier which is right over the mountain.

If you want to model your vacation after theirs this book is nice. This book won't fit into your vacation though. I'd commend "100 Hut Walks in the Alps" which lists hut data all over France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Slovenia.

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