Col du Mollendruz

Just having a look at the Jura Ridgeway, Have deciced we are going to park at
Col de Marchairuz, or try and get a room at hotel there and snow shoe on up to Monte
Tendre.
Goff

ise wrote:

it's fine, they're under a creative commons license which allows any non-commercial re-use like that, it just prevents re-sale or use where rights are assumed over the material like some of those photo hosting sites.

Thank you. Personal use only I can assure you.

goff wrote:Just having a look at the Jura Ridgeway, Have deciced we are going to park at
Col de Marchairuz, or try and get a room at hotel there and snow shoe on up to Monte
Tendre.
Goff

The CAS raquette guide for the Jura has that route in it and the Traversée du Jura Suisse (TJS) goes along there as well as does the epic E4 trek. I'd be interested to know what accommodation you use on the Col de Marchairuz, I'm going to take that route I think for my trip along the Jura. My guidebook mentions "La Ferme des Huskies" which sounds interesting :)

Try and stay here
http://www.hotel-marchairuz.ch/
Found this web site on the Ridgeway .
activityworkshop.net/hiking/jura/lepont-coldemarchairuz.html
Will not be taking on any thing epic without a guide

Goff

goff wrote:
Try and stay here
http://www.hotel-marchairuz.ch/
Found this web site on the Ridgeway .
activityworkshop.net/hiking/jura/lepont-coldemarchairuz.html
Will not be taking on any thing epic without a guide

Goff

That looks fairly ideal for what I need.

I think the E4 is so epic because it runs from Spain to Germany which seems a long way :) I'm never really sure who does that kind of route, it's not exactly well known, even I'd never heard of it until I saw it on a map :)

goff wrote:
Try and stay here
http://www.hotel-marchairuz.ch/
Found this web site on the Ridgeway .
activityworkshop.net/hiking/jura/lepont-coldemarchairuz.html
Will not be taking on any thing epic without a guide

Goff

I reckon that's the only place on the col. We've a CAS refuge, Cabane du Cunay, on Mont Tendre but it's winter room only in the week so it would be bleak and I'd need to lug a load of extra gear which would be painful as I'm expecting to cover around 25-30km a day. I've booked the hotel for next Wed. night which will be comparative luxury I think :)

ise wrote:huh? The E4 is 10,000 km trek not a road :roll:

Ise,
Is it this one? And do you think it's possibly following the routes of pre-historic man?

http://www.visiteurope.com/Plan/Practical-Information/Traveller-needs/Backpackers

Path E4 starts in Tarifa, at the extreme southernmost tip of Spain. You'll walk northward, crossing Andalusia: it's your turn to marvel at the Alhambra in Grenada, Murcia, Ronda and its dramatic setting. Continuing higher still, in the route takes you to the Pyrenees, via Andorra and headed for France. Just follow your nose and you'll visit the sublime regions of Languedoc, the Cévennes, the Ardèche and the Rhône Valley en route to Switzerland, the crest of the Jura, and Lake Constance. In Germany and Austria you can choose between two paths; one is easier than the other. Both trails will lead you to Hungary. Here the trail is called "The Blue Route" and leads you all the way across the Hungarian countryside from the Austrian to the Slovakian border, passing by Budapest and Lake Balaton. A little tour in Bulgaria, across the mountains of Rila and Pirin, takes you to Greece. The path leads you across northern Greece to the central part of the country and onto the Peloponnesus. Along the way you'll be immersed the beauty of the Greek countryside and the cultural richness of the country, and have the opportunity to visit unforgettable sites such as the Meteora monasteries or the cities we all discovered in books read at school: Delphi, Corinth, or the ruins of legendary Sparta.

sort of, it's a "sentiers européens de grande randonnée" one of the routes from the European Ramblers' Association. I can't see it's going too well for them really, even I'd not heard of these routes until I saw it on the map, for that matter I'd never heard of the European Ramblers' Association either :-) I can guess where the money's coming from though :roll: