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GPS-Tagged Hikes - Well worth walking!

The Toggenburg 'Legend' Hike SG

Yesterday my husband and I did another hike in the Toggenburg Region. This area of Switzerland seems not to be very well known to the British but has some very well-marked, very well-walked trails, which would give children the chance to show their parents the way for a change. There is just enough mud to make it fun for the younger generation!

Cable railway (Luftseilbahn) alternating Gondola and chair-lift, up from Alt St.Johann to Sellamatt where the walk starts.
The Sagenweg, is a four hour walk with, at intervals, ten large boards, each with a short legend written on them. (in German - let the children do the translating). Altitude difference given by the book is 560 m but as it is up and down all the time, it is relaxing walking.
Interesting to me were the views both of the Churfirsten (usually seen across the Walensee when travelling from Zürich to Graubünden) and Säntis, usually seen from the Schwägalp. This time we saw them both 'from the back'.
The following link gives our route on the map (a GPS 'recorder' is my husband's newest toy) and also shows the photos we took, which appear at the appropriate places as the shoes 'walk' along the path. We DIDN'T go in sandals though.
I can highly recommend this trip.
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