Haute Route GPS track?

Oh and definitely get a rosti at at least one of the huts. You won't be disappointed!

I am on the PGS HR this year. Really nice job documenting your trip.

I might have the tour plans with me or access to them that have the swiss grid utm coordinates and descriptions that go with those.

Thanks for your post--I printed out the map photos that hyak_eric had linked and I think those will work out pretty well for navigation. If you do indeed have the GPS coordinates corresponding to the waypoints marked on the map (I assume that is what you meant by the swiss grid utm coordinates), it would be a huge help and I would love to get a copy...

Also, thanks for the link to your photos, it really looks like a fantastic tour. I will be sure to order a rosti at one of the huts!

Yes that is what I meant by the swiss utm coordinates. I have the same map set and the coordinates go with the corresponding waypoints on the maps. Send me a PM with your email and I will forward them to you.

I am on the PGS HR this year.  Really nice job documenting your trip.

You are going have a great time with PGS, they really know their stuff.  My trip was awesome last year, and afterwards I thought about there are some things I would have done differently. Also, there were some tips I learned from the web that worked really well. Hopefully, these will be helpful for you. Feel free to ask me questions:
1) Clothing. I noticed that the guides only brought as much clothing as they would wear at one time. In other words, on the coldest point in the trip you would have all your clothes on and nothing in your pack. I brought some extra 'hut' pants, a shirt or two. I didn't need them.
2) Money. If you want to eat/drink (beer/wine) at the hut plan on bringing around 50+ euro or so. It goes faster than you think...
3) Don't forget to order lunch the night before while at the huts. We forgot a couple of times and it was a PITA
4) Keep your clothes and gear in dry bags. This helps org your stuff in the pack when you are on the snow AND keeps it dry when (not if) the snow gets in your pack.
5) Mark your skins and gear before you go. In the hut there will be 100 folks drying their skins/boots/gloves and many look exactly the same. I put a big black "X" on the tips of my skins to keep things straight
6) The huts have slippers. I couldn't figure this out ahead of time, but they all have foot wear.
7) The bathrooms get crowded quickly and lines happen. If you watch Martin he will go to the bathroom during meal time. No waiting...
Some nuun is nice to flavor your water
9) I brought a camelback and 1l bottle. My thinking was that I was going to be working hard and drinking lots. I would only bring a bottle next time and skip the bladder. Watching the guides they intentionally bring minimal water and rehydrate at the hut. I always had extra water that I had to lug around.
10) Bring a little bit of boot and binding repair gear. I broke a boot rivet and another guy broke his freerides. Some screws and a bit of metal made the difference between a delay for repair and a heli ride out.
11) A ipod/iphone is really nice for rest time. Worth the weight. A couple of the huts have some open sockets so a light weight charger is worth it as well.
12) I took a 45l BD pack and that was a bit too large.
13) I had a 'big' OR puffy on the trip. This was too much. I would bring a lighter 'sweater puffy' next time. I guess it depends on the weather and temps. We had perfect weather for our trip. Cold mornings and sunny days.
14) Verbier. If you end up at the Mont Fort hut, you should be able to spend some time riding lifts. You will have had to be the ticket anyway. This is a great ski area, so if things work out, go get some lift served vertical

Before the trip: I skied three days including the Vallee Blanche. If you have time, it is totally worth getting in a guided group and doing this trip. Bring your crampons and a harness for the hike from the terminal to the start of the ski. Also the hotel (Gustavia?) that PGS will set you up in before the start of the trip is a party spot that can get very loud on weekend nights. I stayed down the street at the (Mercurie?) to avoid this.  The Gustavia is a fun bar to hang out in.

After the trip: I got stuck by the volcano and skied Zermatt for a week! Tough I know. Zermatt is definitely worth a couple/few of days extra stay, volcano or not. If you get to ski it, make sure you get over to Italy as well. If you have only one day, you can ski all the major areas of both sides if you really hustle.  On a clear day,

To get back to Geneva, I was able to take the first train out in the morning and make my ~noon flight without any issues. Very easy to figure out the train system there.

Feel free to ask any questions

All very good points by Erik and I agree with all of them, although we didn't have dry bags but it was never an issue. I had a 42l pack it was too big as well. My wife was able to cram it all in a 32l pack, granted she didn't carry the rope. We had two between the four of us. Definitely mark or keep all of your gear in one spot it can definitely get a bit crazy in the morning with everyone leaving at the same time. You can't bring your ice axe or crampons into hut past the entrance. Tey do have bins to put your stuff in though. We saw a couple occasions where people had their ice axes taken by mistake. I would also say bring more than 50 euro total depending on how much alcohol you want drink. Beers were 6 euro and we also had a bottle of wine every night with dinner. If you're buying water it was 8 euro for 1.5 liter bottle if I remember correctly.

Erik we must have been there around the same time as we got stuck by the volcano as well unfortunately we got stuck in Geneva though. Not a place to be stuck for 5 extra days.