What's new in the mountains this week?

 Cal and his son James joined me for a couple of days in order for them to prepare for a multiday ski tour later in the season.   This was t...

  Solitude So Catherine Lewis and I visited the Hotel Weisshorn again.  This time Catherine brought her husband  Richard along too.  We arri...

  Greg & Bill having a picnic on the long appraoch road Fabulous weather and great snow cover meant our trip to the Refugio Benevolo was...

Conditions in the Alps continue to follow their familiar pattern of being either slightly too snowy or not nearly snowy enough. Mid February...

Iconic Land Rover in its element    Dax enjoying himself It was raining hard in Chamonix. Every ski lift was closing — or had already closed...

 Just spent four days skiing in possibly my favourite ski resort.  I still maintain that it has the best lift accessed of- piste skiing of a...

View from Crevacol looking towards the col du Gd St Bernard. Some time ago I promised myself that I would never again complain about being c...