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Walking Easy in the Swiss & Austrian Alps, 3rd (Walking Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Chet Lipton, Carolee Lipton
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1090343
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0762723149
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9780762723140
ASIN: 0762723149
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Condition: NEW - excellent, clean condition - soft bound * by Lipton Chet,Lipton Carolee* publisher: Globe Pequot*
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Product Description
Become an Easy Walker and enjoy the wonderful walking trails found in the Swiss and Austrian Alps. Using this guide and its maps, you can explore beautiful footpaths through mountain meadows and hamlets. Choose routes starting from one of the nineteen base villages selected by the authors for their magnificent mountain locales, charm, availability of public transportation, and accommodations. Rated at one of three levels of ease (gentle, comfortable, and more challenging), each walk takes from two to six hours, excluding "take in the view" breaks or picnics along the way. Whether you want to know the rules of the trail, which local hiking maps to purchase, what clothing to wear, or how to get discounts on travel to Europe, this book helps you get the most out of your alpine walking experience. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 240 pages, b&w photos, maps)
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 Made our trip May 17, 2006
I used this book as a basis for a 3 week trip to the Swiss and Austrian Alps and it was invaluable. We stayed in recommended towns, Lauterburnen, Zermatt, and Alpbach and they were perfect jump off spots for hikes. We are day hikers, so it was nice to return to comfortable hotels in the towns. All of the hikes were on the mark for difficulty and scenery. I combined some of the shorter hikes into longer ones and used a couple of other books to find ways to extend some of the hikes in the book. We had a fantastic vacation and owe much of the success to this book.
 Walking in Wengen June 30, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We followed the trails suggested in the Bernese Oberland section. We chose a walk rated as having medium diffiulty for the book. The descent was so steep that my 30-something walks-a-mile-to-work-everyday husband was not able to walk at all the next day because of the extreme pain in his knees. We missed out on all our subsequent hiking. We later learned (from our swiss maps) that the red-white-red trail markings meant "paths for experienced hikers". The yellow markings mean paths for everyone. There was no mention of this distinction in the book. And given the book's title, we would have thought that all of the walks would have been pretty easy. What would we have done if we were older or had our children along? I think hikers should ask their hosts in Switzerland to recommend walks. Our hotel (the Hotel Regina in Wengen) had many easy walks to suggest. I'd get a good map and order something better to read.
walking easyin the swiss and austrian alps May 28, 2002
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
A great hiking guide for easy walkers...in the picturesque villages of the alps.. these villlages are easy to get to with public transportationand all hotels cater to summer hikers/walkers. Lifts are nearby and trails are described and well signed and maintained... great for families and hikers of all ages... the book describes the details of the walks with many maps and hotel suggestions. A very user fiendly edition... try it
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