Trip-planning guides
Practical, specific guides to planning hut-to-hut treks - not generic trail write-ups, but the booking and chain-planning detail that actually trips people up.
Start here
New to hut-to-hutting. What a hut night is actually like, and how booking works.
- How to use HutScanner - a video walkthrough
- Your first night in an alpine hut - what to expect
- Alpine hut glossary - the words on the booking form
- Dormitory or private room - what you are actually booking
- Half board in alpine huts, explained
- How alpine hut booking actually works
- Planning your first hut-to-hut trek in the Alps
- What to pack for a hut-to-hut trek
Planning a route
Picking a route, finding beds on consecutive nights, and getting there.
- Using HutScanner with ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants
- Driving to the Alps for a hut-to-hut trek
- Get an email when a full alpine hut has space again
- Ways to plan a hut-to-hut trek, and what each one is good at
- Using GPX files for a hut-to-hut route
- Planning the Walker's Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt
- When do alpine huts actually fill up
- The hut you wanted is full - what to do next
- How to plan a hut-to-hut Tour du Mont Blanc trek
Rules and access
What is permitted where: bivouac law, grading scales, and the rules that change by season.
Data and analysis
What our availability record shows about where there is space, and what a trip really costs.