Thursday, May 28, 2015

Still very good skiing to be had - if you know where to look

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So Alison, Yvette, Kevin and I parked the car at the Emosson Dam and started walking across the Dam at about 6.30 am. Our first challenge...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Just when you thought it was all over... Winter returns.

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Steve Callaghan contacted me because he wanted to restart climbing after a long lay-off . He felt he was a bit rusty and wanted to brush ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Ski Season Ends abruptly.

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The weather messed with our plans again. Peter Folkman and I had a plan to traverse the Eastern Oberland on skis. The weather had differen...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Figure of 8 ski tour around Chamonix& bit of Switzerland

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Another fine week of weather allowed us to set up a very interesting beautiful ski-tour where we even met Christophe Jaquet on the top of th...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Traverse of the Eastern Bernese Oberland

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This was an exceptional week of ski touring. Chris Dovell Lia Heisters and I left Chamonix at 6.00am. Chris was good enough to drive. I slu...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

Week of big wind

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John Young arrived at the start of the week with a really bad forecast. Typical of the change in the equinox. There was 50cm of snow very ...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

La Vallée Blanche

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The Vallee Blanche is famous for many things but what most people skiing it for the first time remember is the ridge at the start. This mi...
Friday, March 20, 2015

The Escape Tunnel.

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Imagine you are in the mountains,the weather is horrible,the visibility is at times zero, the avalanche risk is high. Wouldn't it be c...