Alps 2020
Two weeks of test driving a borrowed Sprinter — Swiss passes, Engadin, the Bavarian foothills. A first real vanlife trip after years with a motorhome.
Passes to the Ruinaulta
Guttannen to Filisur via Susten, Oberalp and the Vorderrhein gorge — 145 kilometres, one gorge, one hour at the railing.
Explore the routeDay without a photograph
No photograph from 21 July 2020 exists in any of my libraries. Six years later, I don't remember what that day was.
Read the noteIl Spir, late afternoon
Three minutes at the railing above the Vorderrhein. A gorge, three pines, no word said.
Read the noteThree Passes in One Afternoon
Spiez to Guttannen via Grimsel, Furka and Susten — 140 kilometres, three pass summits, one summer afternoon.
Explore the routeThe stillness of Guttannen
21:14 in a mountain village where no one asks what we want here.
Read the noteSizing the Van
Sixteen days. Four passes. A borrowed Sprinter. We wanted to know whether it would be the next van.
Read the storyWhen geography becomes the promise.
Routes, waypoints, crossings — the spatial layer of this cluster lives under Expeditions.
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