Adventures and Misadventures on the Alpine hiking trails
By Eileen Ogintz Where is the trail? Somehow, we took a wrong turn as we are hiking in the Swiss Alps. Our destination: the 15-room Hotel Obersteinbergthat can only be reached by a long uphill hike in the Swiss Alps in the Jungfrau region. Alpenwild Tours, run by...
On a hiking adventure in Switzerland – and getting here
By Eileen Ogintz ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — It could have been worse. That sums up the average flight experience these days. The TSA Agent who pulled my husband aside at Denver International Airport for an extensive pat down and bag search because some mysterious and...
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