NEWSLETTER

Dear Irontrailers,

The first month of the new year has already flown by and the premiere is fast approaching. We hope that you haven't broken your New Year's resolutions yet, that you have been able to brave all the snowdrifts and still put in a little training for the Irontrail.

Up to now, you've had to visualise the landscape in your mind's eye, but from today we will be presenting the course in individual sections at 1.5-weekly intervals. Come on a trip with us... 

Pontresina – Pontresina (km 0 – 45)

km 11 - 16

• Crossing the Morteratsch and Pers glaciers at the foot of the Piz Bernina, Bellavista and Palü mountains is a big highlight of the course
• You won't get any closer to heaven than here

     
(Photos: Daniel Martinek und S. Bonaca)

km 29 – 39

• 10 kilometres in the high Alps through a fantastic mountain world with phenomenal views
• The average altitude is a cool 2,700 metres
• Right through the middle of two large ibex colonies with local celebrities "Gian" and "Giachen"
• Las Sours, where the permafrost melts and the rock face loses its stability

Landscape / nature

• One of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in the Alps
• Piz Bernina (4,049 metres above sea-level) is the most history-charged and highest mountain in the Eastern Alps - the only one over 4,000 metres

lakes

• Lej da Diavolezza (km 17)
• Lej Nair (km 20)
• Lago Bianco (km 20)
• Lej da la Pischa (km 28)
• Lej da Prüna (km 28)
• Lejs d’Albris (km 30)
• Lej Languard (km 31)
• Lej da Staz (km 39)

Culture

• Chamanna Segantini

Alps

• Alp da Buond (km 22)
• Alp Bernina (km 25)
• Alp Muragl (km 38)

Exquisite pleasure high up in the Alps: Pontresina

Wildly romantic, sun-soaked and sheltered from the wind at a height of 1,800 m, and surrounded by the impressive Bernina massif, this historic Engadine mountain village charms you as soon as you arrive.

Genuine luxury and a breathtaking Alpine world that affords tranquillity as well as an exquisite mountain and health and beauty experience, complete with real culinary delicacies. As it’s situated high up in the Alps, you can walk, go mountain biking, hike and play golf to your heart’s content like nowhere else. So walk and cycle along striking glaciers and massifs, by romantic mountain lakes, over aromatic alpine meadows and forests on perfectly prepared and marked-out routes.

Fans of the high ropes course, as well as watersports enthusiasts, Nordic walkers and golfers, will also experience the best this fine region has to offer.

(Photo: Jetti Langhans, Pontresina)

Want to see more? Then visit our website and be taken on a virtual journey illustrated with pictures courtesy of Google Maps.

Another surprise is waiting for you… Our brand new Swiss Irontrail impressions trailer.

Your Trail-Heidi and OC-Team

Swiss Irontrail
Gäuggelistrasse 16 | CH-7000 Chur, Switzerland
Phone +41 (0)81 258 40 14 | Fax +41 (0)81 258 40 10
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