May
04
The Eiger Trail is the soul of alpine hiking. The stunning ten-day journey leads you through some of the most awe inspiring vistas on earth, locations critical to mountaineering history, and multiple alpine villages turned world class destinations. Parsing through the core of the Swiss Alps, between the villages of...
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Apr
20
The Bay of Fundy and the Fundy Trail are perched on the eastern Atlantic edge of the marine province of New Brunswick Canada. This heavily forested and relatively unexplored region of Canada is new to tourism. It offers the truly unique experience of hiking a trail that still holds a...
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Apr
06
The Tour du Mont Blanc is one of the most classic hiking tours in the world and it has earned that veneration. The tour was originally created by linking a series of high alpine huts and lodges that were, and still are, used to access the precarious climb to Mont...
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Mar
22
No trip to Sicily is complete without an adventure to the Aeolian Islands. Take a trip through time to our five favorite Aeolian Islands. If you’re like us and need to add the Aeolian Islands to your to-do list, check out our Sicily & Aeolian Islands trek here. Stromboli The...
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Mar
13
Ryder-Walker takes good eating as seriously as we take good hiking. No region of Europe offers dining opportunities quite like the foods in the Italian Dolomites. The Italian Dolomites have many Michelin star rated restaurants and local farm to table restaurants. The food in the high alpine shelters is prepared...
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Feb
23
You’ll fall in love with the German and Austrian Alps during our new High Peaks of the Bavarian Tyrol hiking tour. This 8-day inn-to-inn hiking tour circumnavigates the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak. Here are five reasons why we love this hike and we know that you’ll love it too. 1....
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Feb
09
Ryder-Walker hiking guide Babsi Glanzing said she was dying to visit Capri and the Amalfi Coast. So when the time came to update route descriptions and maps for our self-guided Capri & the Amalfi Coast hiking tour, we knew right where to turn. We bought Babsi a round trip ticket to...
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Jan
23
Throughout our planet some of the most sensational achievements have not been built by architects or even sculpted by artists. In our natural world, from sandstone mountains in Central Europe to the Desert Southwest of our own United States, nature has carved out some of the most beautiful and unique...
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Jan
18
Dave Gruss, our intrepid guide, visited Patagonia and we featured some of his favorite photos on our Instagram profile. Below are a few of his favorite images from our Hiking Argentina & Chile Guided Trip. Have you ever wondered what it's like to hike in Patagonia? Now's your chance to...
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Dec
12
Switzerland's Blüemlisalpgletscher Glacier This is the Blüemlisalpgletscher Glacier in the Berner Oberland region of central Switzerland. You can reach this point by hiking eastward from the town of Kandersteg to the Hohtürli Pass (2,778 meters). We do this hike on day 5 of our Eiger Trail trip. It's a climb of...
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Oct
31
We're having a lot of fun flipping through our 2018 digital hiking tour catalog. You can turn pages like a magazine, zoom in, print out individual pages, and download a pdf version if you like. You’ll find new trips, feature stories and more inside. You can view our 2018 digital catalog...
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Sep
29
Last week I took a group of 5 men on an 8-day private guided hike through the Pays Basque and French Pyrenees in southern France. Here is a shot of our guest Brent gazing up at the Vignemale (3,298 meters), an incredibly good-looking peak that sits on the border of...
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