13 walks built from their official Swiss route and checked against it, with the lifts, the huts, the grade and the season read from the people who publish them — and today's closures read from the federal layer.
Do you end up back where you started?
A loop finishes on foot where it began. The lift brings you back means the walk ends somewhere else but the cable car or railway returns you to your start, so a car left there is not stranded. One way needs a bus, train or lift home — or you turn round and walk it back, for double the distance.
Schynige Platte to First, over the shoulder of the Faulhorn
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
Hoher Kasten to Brülisau, over the Saxer Lücke
The lift brings you back. The cable car goes up from Brülisau and the path comes down to Brülisau, so the day is a circle even though the walk is not: you finish at the station and the car park you started from.
A loop from Noiraigue station, up to the rim and back
Loop. Finishes where it starts, so you can leave a car there.
Sonogno to Lavertezzo, down the valley beside the river
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
St-Saphorin to Lutry, above Lake Geneva
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
Riederfurka to the Märjelensee, along the Great Aletsch Glacier
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
Blauherd to Sunnegga, past five lakes under the Matterhorn
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
Pizolhütte to Gaffia, by the Pizol lifts from Wangs
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
Rigi Kaltbad to Rigi Scheidegg, along an old railway line
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
From the First gondola to the Bachsee and back
Loop. Finishes where it starts, returning along the path it came out on. You return along the same path you walked out on.
Eigergletscher to Alpiglen, under the Eiger north face
One way. Finishes somewhere else, so you need a bus, train or lift to get back. You can always turn round and walk it again, for double the distance.
A loop from the Schynige Platte railway terminus
Loop. Finishes where it starts, so you can leave a car there.
Klingenstock to Fronalpstock, along the ridge above Lake Lucerne
The lift brings you back. The ridge ends at a different summit, but both chairlifts serve Stoos village, so you come back to the funicular you arrived on. The operator also publishes the whole thing as a 10.2 km round trip on foot from the village.
Every walk above was built from its official Swiss route, matched onto the mapped path network and checked against the original — length within a few per cent, and no stretch wandering off the line without the page saying so. The words were written after reading the lift company's, the tourist board's and the huts' own pages, each with the date it was read.
2 more walks have a checked line but nobody has written them up yet, so they are not published. A line without words is not a hike page. There are also several hundred walks drawn straight from the mapped hiking network, with no review behind them — they live on the snow-free list, which says clearly what has and has not been read.