Facts

• Walking in South Tirol
  

  Provincial website about hiking in South Tirol, with exciting interactive maps giving info on trails, GPS downloads etc. Just give it a try!

• Hüttentouren in den Ostalpen
  
  (German)

  35 Hüttentouren mit Karte, Etappen, Höhenmetern und mehr.

• Steinmandl.de
  
  (German)

  Dedicated to the "Münchener Hausberge", the Bavarian Alps. You will find entries to the different regions with popular walks and summits, and a overview of popular huts.

• Via Alpina in Trentino
  

  Multilingual website dedicated to the Via Alpina in the Italian region of Trentino.

• Wandern in den Westalpen
  
  (German)

  This good looking website covers walking in the western Alps. In German the names are Seealpen, Cottische Alpen, Grajische Alpen and Ligurische Alpen.

• Wandern, Bergtouren und Klettersteige in den Alpen
  
  (German)

  This website helps you finding a tour in some of the regions of the Alps around the border between Germany and Austria.

• Willkommen - alpinisten.info - Bergsteigen und Hochtouren in den Alpen
  
  (German)

  Fine list of hiking tours, in different degrees of difficulty, in the Alps. The site is focussed mainly on the Austrian and German Alps. The authors are speaking from own experience.

Reports

• Hiking and Mountains [hikr.org]
  

  Terrific website where everybody is invited to drop their own hiking reports. Great content, sublime interface, sympathetic people. The site mainly evolves around short walks and climbs in the Alpine countries, but trips from anywhere in the world can be found here.

• In fünf Monaten von Wien bis ans Mittelmeer
  
  (German)

  This is the story of Almoehi: in five months, he crossed the entire Alps, starting in Vienna, ending in Menton at the Rivièra.

• Ken Baldry's Alpine Advice & Adventures index page
  

  Fine page to roam around, re-doing Ken's hikes in the Alps.

• Kurt M. Pikalo ist ein Freund der Berge - freundderberge.at
  
  (German)

  Special here are the photographs. Especially the pictures from the last year, are very good.

• La grande traversée
  
  (French)

  Two guys crossed the Alps, from Slovenia to France. On their way to the west, they also did some (...) summits, like the Triglav, Grossglockner, Mont Blanc. Want to beat them? Here you can find their itinerary.

• Tourenbeschreibungen: Bergtouren Hochtouren Klettersteige Klettertouren Mountainbiketouren Schneeschuhtouren Skitouren Tourenplanung Trekking
  
  (German)

  A search engine for hiking reports. The main focus is on the Alps.

• www.GipfelStuermerin.de
  
  (German)

  "Gipfelstürmerin" will keep you awake with her trail reports of Alpine high routes.

• Alpintouren: Wandertouren - Wandern - Bergtouren - Bergsteigen - Wanderportal
  
  (German)

  Alpintouren is a huge collection of hikes of all sorts, uploaded by its user community. Most, but not all off them, are located in the Alps.

• Hiking Aiguilles Rouges
  

  Hiking around the 'Aiguilles Rouges' peaks from Chamonix.

• Le Tour du Viso
  
  (French)

  Fred and Nat trekking around the Viso with their tent.

Guides and maps

• Alpenüberquerungen: 10+1 Wege zu Fuß über die Alpen
  
  (German)

  10 Wege zu Fuß über die Alpen. Die schönsten Alpenüberquerungen in den Ostalpen mit Karte, Etappen, Beschreibungen und weiterführenden Informationen.

Lodging

• Alpenverein Südtirol (AVS) Huts
  
  (German)

  List of huts with useful details on the AVS website, and links to other Alpine Associations hut databases.

• Club Alpin Francais Huts
  
  (French)

  Huts database on the Club Alpin Francais website.

• Club Alpino Italiano Huts
  
  (Italian)

  Database by the Italian Club Alpino of mountain huts (rifugi). Looks promising, but currently (2009) rather incomplete.

• Club Arc Alpin Huts Database
  
  (German)

  Club Arc Alpin multilingual website (but not in English), a joint effort by all Alpine countries mountaineering clubs, with links to all members hut-databases. Very handy.

• Deutscher Alpenverein Huts
  
  (German)

  Excellent website by the German Alpine Club with huts in Austria and in the German and Italian Alps.

• Liechtensteiner Alpenverein Huts
  
  (German)

  Info on the two mountain huts run by the Lichtenstein Mountaineering Association.

• Oesterreichischer Alpenverein Huts
  

  Huts database by the Austrian Alpine Association.

• Swiss Alpine Club Huts
  

  Multilingual website by the SAC, with detailed info on all SAC mountain huts.

• Mountain huts in Europe
  

  Handy list of huts in the Alps and other mountain area's of Europe

• Planinska sveza Slovenije on Huts
  
  (Slovenian)

  Website of the Slovenian Mountaineering Association, with a very useful list of, and detailed information on, mountain huts in all mountain areas of Slovenia.

• Compagnie des Refuges Clarée Thabor
  
  (French)

  Joint website of 10 refuges (huts) in the Clarée Valley and Mount Thabor region, in the Haute Savoie in the Rhône-Alps, stradling the border between France, Switzerland and Italy.

• Gites de Lure
  
  (French)

  Website with info on huts of the Association de Gites de Lure, in the Alps region of the Lure mountain in southeastern France (Alpes de Haute Provence).

Organisations

• Alpenverein Südtirol (AVS)
  
  (German)

  Website of the Alpine Association of South Tirol.

• Club Alpin Francais
  
  (French)

  Website of the French Alpine Club.

• Club Alpino Italiano (C.A.I.)
  

  Italian Alpine Association website, providing a complete C.A.I. mountain huts database.

• Deutscher Alpenverein
  
  (German)

  Website of the German Alpine Club

• Liechtensteiner Alpenverein
  
  (German)

  Official website of the Liechtenstein Mountaineering Association.

• Oesterreichischer Alpenverein Sektion Weitwanderer
  
  (German)

  Austrian Alpine Association, dept. Long Distance Walkers, with everything you need to know about long distance hiking in Austria.They offer information on the European Long Distance Paths too.

• Swiss Alpine Club
  

  Multilingual website of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC).

• Club Arc Alpin
  
  (German)

  Multilingual website (although not in English) of the Club Arc Alpin, a cooperative effort by the mountaineering associations of all Alpine countries.

Tour operators

GPS

Other

• Alpine Webcams
  
  (German)

  Very useful list of webcams for the entire Alps.

• www.gipfelbuch.ch
  
  (German)

  Portal for hikers and climbers in the (mainly German speaking) Alps, where users leave their own experience. Browse this if you plan an ascent yourself.

• Packliste Hüttentour: Hüttentrekking leicht gemacht
  
  (German)

  Packliste für eine Hüttentour. Leicht, praktisch, funktional. Wie Du mit weniger als 4kg auf Hüttentour gehen kannst.

• www.DerHuettenwanderer.de - Checkliste
  
  (German)

  Useful gear list for hut tours in the Alps.