The project proposes a hiking trail through the periphery of the valley of Davos in the Swiss Alps. A series of interventions – new and existing – make a line through an increasingly vacant landscape explicit. In engaging with the landscape – enabling visiting, journeying, and residing – the project provides an alternative to the undoubtedly extractive nature of contemporary tourism, re-framing the valley through the modes of use and sharing. The erosion of local autonomy is traced back to the earliest extractive activities of silver mining: Dissolving the insularity of the valley, the Alps were permeated with human traffic, the exchange of goods as well as with the influx of cultural currents. Today, mass tourism, landscape conservation and the coining of a picturesque, advance this asymmetrical condition between industry and the inhabitants of the Alps. Thus, the project promotes walking as a symbolic and formal act of re-appropriation, challenging consumptive models of contemporary mass tourism. It gives form and awareness to an otherwise contested territory, claiming the valley as an urban form. Through facilitating a pathway and an architectural response that reinforces this basic infrastructure, the simple act of walking becomes the reminder that the sovereignty of extraction is not absolute.