High mountains, alpine meadows, rolling hills studded with picture-book farms, charming historic villages with painted house facades-all this diverse beauty of the Swiss landscape is accessible to hikers. This completely updated guide explains how to tailor a walking vacation to your own abilities, schedule, and aesthetics, and make your vacation as relaxed or as strenuous as you wish. This is the Swiss way.

With this second edition you can experience Switzerland within the limits of real-world vacation times and budgets. The book supplies all the information you need to plan your own moderately priced Swiss walking tour, including information on how to rent a vacation apartment at low cost, an ideal affordable option for families. It provides a wide selection of the best Swiss walks, most unknown in North America. Detailed trail information and maps let you select the routes most suited to your vacation style. New walks, new photographs, and a new chapter on the Apenzell update this classic guide.

The guide covers day trips from mountain apartments and overnight inn-to-inn treks. The authors, who have more than twenty-five years of Swiss walking and hiking experience, include information on 102 trips of varying lengths from accessible day hikes to multi-day walks in 11 regions. Each walk includes detailed descriptions of terrain, scenery, points of interest, and level of effort and skill required. The introduction covers information on travel basics, walking tips, and the alpine environment.

This guide will be an essential part of your next alpine adventure, be sure to pack it with you and experience Switzerland the Swiss way!