Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Rite of passage? Its a bit like ski touring only different.

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Sunset from Wildstrubel Hutte If you come to the Alps for your holidays the one word you never want to see on the weather forecast is Fo...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Traverse of Europes biggets Ice cap. La Vanoise.

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The challenge of having skied and climbed with the  same people consistently for over twenty years is that we are constantly having to s...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

The Glacier d'Armancette

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April, at some point. always brings unstable weather with the change of the equinox - "April Showers." Last week was no dif...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Winter Returns Big Time

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50cm of snow fell in one night.  This was the view outside the kitchen window.  The day before had been okay ski -wise but there was littl...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

If there is better spring snow skiing than this - then show me what it looks like.

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Approaching the might North Face of the Doites This was a week of skiing that started well with good conditions and then it just got b...
Monday, April 01, 2019

A Mountain Hut with a difference.

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Peter Whelan and I skied at Le Tour for our opening day.  The north facing slopes continued to hold very good snow and good skiing. The f...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Avoiding the dreaded Foehn Forecast

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For most of the season the weather systems have not produced the dreaded Foehn effect which brings miserable grey weather to Chamonix in...