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Tirol and Liechtenstein – from Tannheim to Vaduz
A good traveler has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving. -- Lao Tzu Click and drag on map above to see area around trail. Click here for large zoomable map. The second section of the H2H takes you west through Tirol to the pocket principality of Liechtenstein on the edge of Switzerland. No more dabbling around the edges of the Alps: henceforth you will be surrounded by serious mountains. The peaks, although still for the most part under 3000m, are becoming less and less accessible to those without climbing gear (and with the need to push on towards Provence). Nevertheless, most days you will climb over passes of 2000m or more and as a result you will become more dependent upon the weather for progress. It is time therefore to introduce the H2H Uncertainty Principle (H2HUP), which states that if you want to meet up with people on the H2H, then you can choose either time or location… but not both. So from now until you are out of the high Alps, if someone wants to meet you while you are doing the H2H, then they need to get in touch to find out where you are going to be the following evening, or, at most, the evening thereafter, and then go to that point. The planning and overnight reservation horizon for the next couple of months will in general extend no further than the limits of a reliable Alpine weather forecast… i.e., generally 2-3 days. The best that can be done, therefore, in the context of planning, is to talk about probabilities… i.e., when are you most likely to be at a given point. As a basis for those probabilities I plan to use the following assumption: that on average the weather will be bad enough to make it either unwise or unpleasant to hike about 25% of the time in the high Alps (between Tannheim (stage 11) and St-Dalmas-Valdeblore (stage 68, six days before Monaco)). If anyone has any data or advice or even opinions about whether or not this assumption is correct… please let me know. And I'll certainly update the website with my own experience after this summer's hike along the H2H. Stages
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H2H: The House to House Hike
