Zermatt

Hello,

We are considering stopping at Zermatt for a couple of days on our way home from Italy.  It looks a bit expensive and a bit complicated.  We have the campervan so will stay at a site down in Tasch.

Can anyone help suggest any easy but stunningly pretty rides? Nothing too gnar as we are both carrying some injuries.  We have ebikes as well as enduros.

Any other advice welcome.

Cheers all.

I haven’t been to Zermatt in Summer, and it’s been 15 years since I went in winter.

To be honest it was expensive back then when there were two Swiss Francs to the pound.

However it’s an amazing place and well worth visiting IMO.

In the absence of more up to date advice I’d suggest avoiding eating in any of the mountain restaurants, apparently a pizza can be £40-50, and instead get food in one of the supermarkets in town.

If it were me, I’d look at getting the Gornegrat train up with my bike, because the train is the archetypal Zermatt experience and then look at one of the routes down from there. I think there is an e-bike route from Tasch, but it would be a shame to miss out on the full Zermatt experience IMO.

The Gornegratbahn is expensive, but I believe that there are ways of making it cheaper with reductions on the walk up price?

Its a long time ago, 2007 but we did some good bikery as a warm up to the Tour Mont Blanc.

If I recall, Gornergrat was a grand day out and the map I’m looking at has a bike marked trail from the station to Rifelberg but I think we did a smaller singletrack to Ze Serojinen and heading to the Europaweg which was excellent, on teh east side of the valley and could get to Tash that way.

Another day took us to the Schoenbielhutte and back down on the north side of the Zmuttbach. Again, a great trail back to Zermatt and you could link through to Tash. The climb would suit e-bikes being a 4wd road for a fair way and a well travelled track to the hut. A great decent on the ridge of a moraine and epic views of Switzerlands favorite mountain.

More info here https://www.zermatt.ch/en/bike/Trails-Tours#

Thank you to both of you, it looks amazing. It also looks like currently all the higher level trails are closed.  I presume due to the snow level.

Thank you again for your help. We are going to keep south and come back via Puy-Saint-Vincent.

Loads of stuff on Trailforks.

It snowed the other day in the high alps.

Zermatt is worth a visit just to see how car free communities function.

Walking about the older parts of the town – Hinterdorf is great if you like old alpine buildings. Watch out for the johnny cabs though.