Trip-planning guides
Practical, specific guides to planning hut-to-hut treks - not generic trail write-ups, but the booking and chain-planning detail that actually trips people up.
- How to use HutScanner - a video walkthrough
- Your first night in an alpine hut - what to expect
- Alpine hut glossary - the words on the booking form
- Dormitory or private room - what you are actually booking
- Using GPX files for a hut-to-hut route
- Half board in alpine huts, explained
- How alpine hut booking actually works
- Planning your first hut-to-hut trek in the Alps
- The SAC hiking scale T1 to T6, explained
- Via ferrata grades explained
- Planning the Walker's Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt
- What to pack for a hut-to-hut trek
- When do alpine huts actually fill up
- Where alpine huts still have space in high summer
- The hut you wanted is full - what to do next
- How to plan a hut-to-hut Tour du Mont Blanc trek