What Type of Clothes and Shoes Required
 

Hello Folks,

Need help here from singapore.. I have planned to travel to Swiss [ For 10 days] and Italy [ 6 days] from 2nd until 18th of july

While i am in luzern for 3 days i would like to visit mt rigi , mt Titlis & Mt Pilatus on three
days and then followed by Schilthron and Jungfra** from interlaken

Could someone recommend or suggest me as i am travelling with my wife and 25 month old . What is a must to carry to these places?

Especially on the snowy mountains titlis & jungfra** what type of shoes are required if we would like to play.

Is there a place @ the top where we can rent shoes if required

Any sugegstion would be helpful

Thanks,
Dat

It should be warm in July so I suggest you just layer clothes. Take a light waterproof jacket to put over the top. If you're concerned about the cold you could take a hat and gloves but you might just as easily need a sunhat. I would think that runners/joggers would be fine at that time of year unless you are hiking in the snow. As long as you can change wet shoes into dry you shouldn't have a problem. I suggest sunglasses even for Junior.

Shoes with traction.

There's nothing more entertaining than watching an ill-equipped tourist slide around on the snow in their city shoes...some of these mountains (like the Jungfrau) have snow year round.

There may be some snow on the peaks, but the paths from the cable car station to observations platforms are easy to walk and usually kept free of snow. Especially during summer you should not expect any problems. And no, you can't rent shoes at the top.

But most major brands for running shoes like Adidas also have a line of shoes for hiking.
They look like regular runners but have good traction and should have some gore-tex to be water resistant. These are also much better to explore cities or towns and walk miles on cobblestones than "nice shoes" or regular running shoes.

Agree with Cowboy. And what sort of excursion are you planning? With a 25month old and doing every day a mountain excursion with trains and cable cars, I'd guess you will be doing general tourist stuff, no hiking involved. Then as cowboy wrote, the paths to the obseravation decks are all well prepared (often even for - not too fancy - city shoes) and you would have no problem. As to the clothes, as others wrote, layers. At the worst case with bad wheather, there are indoor areas at the top where you can stay warm.

Thanks guys for the Info

Datta, your little one will LOVE the snow that should still be at the top of the mountains in July.

When we were in Zermatt (mid July), we took a cable car up to get a close view of the Matterhorn – beautiful site on a clear day.

A young family from South Africa was in our group. The father and his ten year old son suddenly ran off the path and started rolling around in the snow. They had a ball!

Coming from New England it was fun to watch folks enjoy themselves who had never seen snow. I don’t recall it being that cold either. I was though briefly uncomfortable at such a high altitude but that soon passed.

You will love Switzerland…

In midsummer it's not really very cold at the top - nothing like real winter. I fyou have a couple of layers and shoes with non-skid soles you should be ok - althogh it you go walking in deep snow it will fill up your shoes and you'll need to change. When we went up the JUngrau I would say temps were in the 40s - so a tee shirt, long sleeve shirt and jean or similar type jacket are enough. (Just make sure you're not like the couple in the train compartment with us - they had tee, shorts and sandals and were shivering before we were half way up the mountain.) Also be aware that anyone who has breathing problems - or who smokes or ever has - can have trouble breathing at the top since there is so much less oxygen in the air - esp for the Jungfrau - not so bad at the lower mountains near Lucern.

But you should be aware that yuo can;t just ascend these mountains any day you want. The tops are high enough that they can easily be in the clouds and it may be several days (we waited in Interlaken 3 day before we could go up the Jungfrau) until it's clear at the top and you can see anything.