Tuesday, January 30, 2024

50th wedding anniversary ski trip

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Mt Blanc seen from col du Balme  In this day and age being married for fifty years is an achievement in its self.  Going off-piste skiing as...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

End of an Era

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 We traveled to Klosters to ski, but also for a "pilgrimage." We were there to say a last goodbye to the last remaining flying Gr...
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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Fresh Tracks Everyday

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Annie,Jimmy,Eathen,Mark,David all complete with their "Batons d'Allain"  When the group have  come all the way from Boulder Co...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

My first ever November ski tour.

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  Gd St Bernard Monastery. Its not even December yet and the snow is plentiful- above 1800 meters.  A short  weather window materialised and...
Monday, November 13, 2023

A suprising early start to the Skiing season. November 12.

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  La Flegere. The weather had been shocking. Torrential rain, rivers bursting their banks, mud slides.  But above 1800meters it has snowed. ...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Aiguille du Midi Ridge: Beware it's not always straight forward.

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  The entry into the Vallée Blanche. Despite having lived in Geneva for the past fifteen years and despite having climbed Mt Blanc with me i...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

What to do with an unsettled forecast.

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 The rough plan for the week was to spend as much time at altitude as possible  so that Charles would be well acclimatized for his forthcomi...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

A suggestion for Mellow Alpine Mountaineering

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If you are looking for all the componenets of an alpine climbing experinece, yet without the really long approaches and knackering descents,...
Friday, September 08, 2023

Final Mt Blanc . No better way to sign off.

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Father & Daughter on the summit of Mt Blanc. Generally its not the actual climbing of Mt Blanc that is the challange, rather its getting...
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