More Swiss riding

Very few of the trails are purpose-built for mountain bikes. They are mostly gravel roads and walking trails which mountain bikes are permitted to use, which means many are loose, steep and rocky, while others are easy. And we sometimes have to dodge walkers.

Friendly cows with their musical bells.

Zermatt has a variety of transport options to get people up the mountains. This is a cable car.

There are also gondolas where bikes hang on hooks outside the gondola.

And a funicular train that goes up inside a tunnel at about an almost 45 degree incline.

And there is a regular train for rides along the valley.

And the heritage Gornergrat train which uses cogs to climb the steep iclines to 3089 metres.

The Gornergrat train passing through the avalanche shelter as we rode down.

There were five rock fall shelters beside one of the trails.

Sketchy narrow trails. Some sections just have to be walked.

And this suspension bridge, 100 metres long and just as high.

We are mostly riding downhill but we are peddling uphill in some places.

We have had quite a few picnic lunches on our rides.

And the Matterhorn is ever present.