by charles_lehmann | Mon 8 Jan 2024 | Jura, Hiking
To get to Crêt-du-Locle, or even further to Le Locle on foot from La Chaux-de-Fonds, you may be tempted to cross the whole town and exit from it via the southwest. You then experience quite a nuisance, as traffic along this axis.For this reason, it is more...
by charles_lehmann | Thu 4 Jan 2024 | Jura, Hiking
I have a lot of memories of Macolin, having spent a fair amount of time there in my youth during training camps. I also kept some memories of the Hohmatt, a farm transformed, as is often the case in the region, into a restaurant. Only once, I had crossed by the...
by charles_lehmann | Tue 19 Dec 2023 | Jura, Hiking
This is a hike with beautiful contrasts and views that are as unusual as magnificent. Indeed, the bottom of the Sagne and Ponts Valley has the appearance of a flat plain surrounded by two steep slopes. This configuration comes from the fact that the entire valley...
by charles_lehmann | Fri 20 Oct 2023 | Jura, Hiking
On that day, the weather forecast was not too bad. At the same time, for practical reasons, we had favored the Boudry area. However, we had absolutely no desire to follow the Areuse Gorges trail for two reasons. First, the upper section on the Saut de Brot side was...
by charles_lehmann | Fri 15 Sep 2023 | Jura, Hiking
I had made this trek a long time ago. At that time, I often travelled to Basel for professional reasons and found that when there was inversion over the Swiss Plateau, one often reached Moutier under a clear sky. However, I was a few years younger (15 years in...
by charles_lehmann | Sun 10 Sep 2023 | Jura, Hiking
The Combe-Grède is a surprising place. Apart from the fact that it is a Nature Reserve and a Federal Hunting Reserve, and therefore a protected area, the trail that goes up the gorge holds many surprises. Indeed, in many places as you go up the gorge, the continuation...
