{"id":59,"date":"2007-08-05T21:17:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/20070804-05-zinal-chandolin-hike-and-bike-reconnaisance\/"},"modified":"2007-08-05T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T21:17:57","slug":"20070804-05-zinal-chandolin-hike-and-bike-reconnaisance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/05\/20070804-05-zinal-chandolin-hike-and-bike-reconnaisance\/","title":{"rendered":"2007.08.04-05: Zinal Chandolin hike and bike reconnaisance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>+1050m, -1000m, 15km<br \/>\n+850m, -1300m, 13km<\/p>\n<p>5:30am train departure, is somewhat early, no busses run this early to the station:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060424.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exactly 4hrs later:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060432.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is this wide enough to pass by bike?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060451.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060461.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Met an ultralight hiker along the way, tour de mont blanc, then chamonix-zermatt w\/o cabane, just a tarp:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060463.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This could work for biking:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060485.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So could this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060515.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only one choice of pie:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060526.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This path would not be so good by bike, but obvious to avoid with bike:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060536.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not so useful after the hike is done, but doesn&#8217;t matter not very difficult:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060543.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice bisse for biking, but not very logical for a big tour of the valley:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060548.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060566.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The future of downhill biking?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060569.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least one person is convinced:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060570.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprise, a cabane completely to myself for the night:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060577.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060581.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Small summit for Sunday:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060614.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060624.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friendly fly:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060639.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>En route for another little summit:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060647.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little too steep and narrow for my tastes:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060648.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tracks up to the Bishorn:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060630.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Folding bikes becoming more\u00a0widespread and useful on certain trains:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/hike\/swiss\/2007\/zinal\/P1060687.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+1050m, -1000m, 15km +850m, -1300m, 13km 5:30am train departure, is somewhat early, no busses run this early to the station: Exactly 4hrs later: Is this wide enough to pass by bike? Met an ultralight hiker along the way, tour de mont blanc, then chamonix-zermatt w\/o cabane, just a tarp: This could work for biking: So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hike","category-valais"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}