Ok, maybe not quite yet and although the summer’s been a bit damp we’re expecting a fine autumn and some great walking here in the Swiss Alps.

But, the flyers for winter snowshoeing have just arrived. I printed these a little early as we’re getting a lot of people asking for details and I’d not got anything to give them. I think our program will probably expand a little and there’s a couple of excursions I’ve got planned but not been able to confirm all details so we’ll be adding some things later.

In the meantime, here’s the flyer! It will be available in local stores and tourist offices as normal and here, at the B&B L’Epicéa as well of course.

We’re particularly pleased to announce that we’re providing snowshoes for trips! We decided that renting snowshoes was a big extra expense for clients and we wanted to offer a great deal. For a week we think it’s an offer worth 80 to 100 chf!

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An article I wrote has appeared in the Snowshoe Magazine titled “From the Zinal Glacier to the Swiss Jura Mountains: Exploring the High Alps on Snowshoes”.

Snowshoe Magazine has a pretty international circulation so I wrote something to introduce Switzerland as a snowshoeing destination to the readership. The article picks out four day tours in Switzerland with photographs. When I submitted the photographs I was stunned to discover I couldn’t find any photographs of the actual planets on the “chemin des planètes” at Saint-Luc, I never take any assuming I’ve got loads already and it turns out that I haven’t. I’ll have to fix that in the winter!

Link to the article : From the Zinal Glacier to the Swiss Jura Mountains: Exploring the High Alps on Snowshoes

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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.

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