Sunday, March 26, 2017

Resort Skiing is not quite shot to bits : If you are flexible.

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The best way to have good skiing is to have a good sense of what the weather is doing and then go where the snow is best on the day. On Wed...

Ski Touring in the Vanoise

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Bill Mills and Greg Knott have been ski touring with me for nine consecutive years and we needed new areas of the alps to explore, so I sug...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Sun Sets & Sun Rises . Ski Touring at its very best.

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David & Antonia Francis joined me for five days ski touring. Prior to our meeting the snow conditions had been very unstable with lot...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

Skiing with Dad and the God Parents

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You might think that I get to ski a lot with my girls. The truth is I don't . Them being free when I am free is difficult. Last Sat...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Grand St Bernard : Lets not go there at the momment.

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The Grand St Bernard Monastery is right at the bottom bit of the red section on the avalanche danger map. This was to have been our goal...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Dont follow tracks , especially our tracks.

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It continues to be grey and wet in the Chamonix valley caused by almost continuous Foehn winds . Yet the conditions in Italy have produced ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Italian Snow

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It continues to be the case that all the best skiing is in Italy. It was good to ski with Rachel who I have skied with since she was 16....
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Making something out of nothing :In search of the perfect snow

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The first plan was a good one . It had been tried and tested a few times. It was called a "helicopter skiing safari." We would ...