by Pieter@Overseashiker | Mar 21, 2026 | Switzerland, Via Alpina
In the summer of 2025 I hiked the Swiss Via Alpina. The trail took me from the Lichtenstein border in the East to Montreux at Lake Geneva in the West. Seventeen days of some of the best scenery in the Alps, (wild) camping most of the time! Via Alpina (Swiss Alpine...
by Pieter@Overseashiker | Jul 18, 2025 | Arizona, Kids, Multi Day Hike
The Hermit Trail is a mostly unmaintained (but well defined) trail into the Grand Canyon. It’s a historic trail, the first constructed for tourists in the Grand Canyon. I made a two-day hike with my 4 children to Hermit Creek and back, in the springtime of 2025. I...
by Pieter@Overseashiker | Apr 13, 2024 | Day Hike, Italy
Lago di Braies (also known as Pragser Wildsee in German) is the famous starting point for the Alta Via 1 thru hike across the Italian Dolomites. But there are also various shorter trails starting at the azure blue lake. Here are three day hikes that I hiked at Lago di...
by Pieter@Overseashiker | Mar 10, 2024 | France, GR 5
Stage 4 of the GR5 was the last stage of this thru-hike that I would walk this year. It marked the transition to the Mediterranean Alps, where the weather was hotter and drier. The landscape turned more and more empty until I reached the city of Briançon where my...
by Pieter@Overseashiker | Feb 7, 2024 | France, GR 5
Stage 3 of the GR5: the Vanoise. A part of the Grande Traversée des Alpes/GR5 where all the different routes can make your head dizzy – if you’re not already dizzy from the high mountains all around you. This stage takes hikers from freezing cold mountain passes to...
