On the summit, we found what must have been one of the most spectacular swap points in the country: the Hotel Brünig Kulm, an ambling chalet-style inn.
We followed a red sign with a bike and a battery on it to the Gasthof Bären hotel, one of 600 swap points around the country.
It's simple to use, with users choosing their destination country and a home they want to stay in, then making the swap either directly or through the site's Swap Points system.
The news is also being announced to co-incide with the introduction of a new "Swap Points" scheme, which sees Love Home Swap broaden its model once again, encroaching even further on the legacy holiday accommodation 'time-share' model.
Arrows indicate positions of the chimeric swap points.
Veloland.ch, offered in English, has printable maps of bike routes in Switzerland, including battery-swap points as well as the names and contact information for electric-bike friendly hotels along the way.
It is much easier to drag markets down when they are already reeling, by the use of such things as short-selling, options and swaps, points out James Rickards of Tangent Capital, an expert on financial threats.
We jail for not having a television licence, for Googling in jury rooms, for smoking cannabis, for hacking a phone, for "swapping points", for perjury or, the latest obsession, "historic sex abuse".
Isabel Oakeshott is the political journalist whose sympathetic words wheedled Chris Huhne's M11 "swapped points" story out of the then Lib Dem cabinet minister's wife, Vicky Price: both went to prison.
