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snowshoe magazine : Taking the ‘Light and Air Cure’ in the Alpes Vaudoises

Just a link to an article (pdf) I wrote for Snowshoe Magazine :

Taking the ‘Light and Air Cure’ in the Alpes Vaudoises

It’s an introduction to the area around Leysin and the Vaud Alps and looks at a three snowshoeing routes as a taster for the area. Leysin itself is an interesting place and has a little history so it’s a good base for snowshoeing trips.

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Snowshoeing in the Swiss Jura at Sainte Croix

January 10, 2010 Filed in: Snowshoe Tours In Switzerland

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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