Ste-Croix is in the canton of Vaud but in the Jura range mountains on the Swiss-French border, Ste-Croix is just a few km from the French border. Despite it being local to the valley house I’ve never been over there in the winter, in fact I’ve only really been to the Jura to enjoy the sport climbing on the crags there. This was a fairly random trip on snowshoes, I’d looked at the map and had a couple of ideas for routes but we were flexible.

The best idea seemed to be to just park somewhere and head out, I only really wanted to get an idea of the terrain in the area so I’d no particular objective in mind. In the end I decided to head for the top of Mont Cochet which is a pretty small peak near the town, there’s some ski lifts below there which weren’t running today. Snow was good though, just not really enough for them to piste I think but perfect for snow shoeing.

Just a few snaps taken in forest above and around Zinal.

It’s been a little hectic recently so I’ve not posted much on here but we got a few nice pictures around Zinal yesterday. I’ve explored the forest around Mottec and Pralong before but we’d not been this way before. In fact, there was no sign of tracks anywhere and I’ve never seen tracks there before so it’s a pretty original route!