Hi all,
Been a long time since I've been on these forums, but I remember this being an amazing community for information about climbing and trekking, so I thought I'd reach out for advice.
My wife and I are in Freiburg, Germany for the summer (leaving in ~1 month), and have not been to the alps yet... mostly been climbing and running in the Black Forest area. We don't have any gear aside from shoes and harnesses, so technical routes are (sadly) not an option, but we can scrape together backpacking gear, so we really want to do a 3-4 day trek in the alps before we leave.
We don't have access to a car, so we need something that we can use public transit for. I've been looking in the Zermatt area because of lifelong dreams of seeing the Matterhorn, but would be open to other recommendations. We're looking for high, exposed, Alpine terrain and not afraid of big elevation gains, long distance, or class 3-4 scrambling.
I realize that it's a pretty broad question, but any ideas from personal experience would be greatly appreciated! In the meantime I'm combing the databases.
Thanks in advance.