Hiking Itineraries with Florence & Katja

Florence and I are from Toronto, Canada. We have been hiking together for quite a few years. Once we started, the hiking bug bit hard. We have covered a bit of ground since we started and, when planning hikes away from home, have relied heavily on blogs from other hikers to inform our planning.

When reading hiking blogs we often found it really helpful if we could get a good idea of the required fitness level and pace to achieve daily goals, so we could decide whether their itineraries were in line with what we were capable of. We hope to tell you as much as possible about our experience of the physical aspects of the hikes so you can adjust your plans according to your own wishes.

Overall, we like hikes ranging from 16-25 km per day. Having never hiked alpine terrain until 2017, we realized that this would be adjusted to more like on average of 10-20 km per day, depending on altitude loss & gain. Our hikes are strenuous but not extreme and, with decent fitness level, entirely doable. We are not big fans of scrambling, ridge hikes, prolonged exposed sections in scree, wearing helmets and via ferrata, though we have had some experience with the latter. Not living in the mountains, we have trained for alpine hikes by hiking every possible hill locally and by jogging, including a bit of hill running. It worked for us.

We hope you come along for the hikes and enjoy!