What's the Haute route?

The Walker’s Haute Route is a hiking trail through the French and Swiss Alps that starts in Chamonix, France and ends in Zermatt, Switzerland. There is a lot of elevation gain and loss each day, and there are various paths you can choose to take a long the way. It’s common to stay in cabins along the way (which tend to have shared dorm-room style accomodations), hotels, or camp.

Resources we used

• Planning: The Hiking Club to plan our route and find places to stay
• Navigating Apps:
  • SwitzerlandMobility
  • We exported maps from The Hiking Club to the Organic Maps app
  • Gaia
  • Strava
• Weather: MeteoSwiss app

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