Lifetime Projects

Lifetime Project Number 1:

Inspiration for this one came when I read an article in the newspaper about Pascal Bourquin, who's trying to hike every single meter of the official hiking trails in Switzerland. To give you an idea, all trails taken together are about 66'000 kilometers. Quite a lot of hiking indeed. :) At the moment he has done about 24'000 km, which is a crazy amount already. If you want to have a look at his project, you can do so on the following website: https://lavieenjaune.ch/

Since I had read that article in the newspaper, my thought basically was, what he can do, I can do as well. :) And so I'm trying to hike as many kilometers on the official Swiss hiking trails as possible. To me, this is definitely no competition with Pascal (for that he's too far ahead anyway), nor is it the goal to walk absolutely everything, basically I'm just wondering how much I can do in my lifetime. :) Calculating with an average of 1'000 km per year (which is quite a lot already when you have a full time job), it would take me somewhere between 60 to 70 years to complete it all. By then, I would be well above 100 years old, so this whole thing certainly is a challenge, but not one I intend to fulfill. :) Nevertheless, it will take me to places that otherwise I would never have visited and as I want to be a hiking guide someday, this can only be a benefit.

On here, I will update a map every now and then, where you can see how much I walked already. The start of this project was on the first of January in 2023, meaning that all the hikes I've done before, I have to redo at some point in my lifetime. That's something I absolutely can live with though and I'm already curious, how far I'll get with this little challenge. :)