Blog posts with the general theme of hiking.
In my official role as UIMLA President I was invited the Outdooractive 30th anniversary celebration in their home town of Immenstadt im Allgäu in the Oberallgäu region, the southernmost district of Bavaria. I’d been away and it was a bit tricky to schedule in but I was able to be there for a couple of […]
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by SwissInfo in my role as UIMLA president. It was a great experience and we talked about some interesting topics. The journalist, Dale, had some great insights and understanding about how mountain tourism is changing. It’s great to see some coverage on these issues. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/a-good-reason-not-to-cry-but-to-welcome-the-wolf-/46863294 SWI swissinfo.ch is
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A rare joint day off and a hike along the Jura ridge to Mont Tendre. The weather was perfect and I don’t think you could ask for much better conditions. The alpage at Mont Tendre was open so we got a nice lunch as well. The Jura is well known to people living here but
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While there’s still a lot of snow at height on north slopes it is beginning to clear lower down. The rain and higher temperatures last week have cleared south slopes in particular. We headed to the small peak of La Riondaz which on the end of the line of peaks above Leysin with great views
It’s a been a tough few months for us all, for those of us that live and work in the mountains we’ve really not known what the future holds. For our clients and visitors they’ve not known when they’ll be able to join us. We’ve been wondering how the money from the government would be
Let’s rediscover the mountains & breathe (winter) Read More »
It’s not like we’ve not been many times but this was the first time for the spring/summer season. It was one of the last ski days I got as well (Tour Famelon ski). We walked up from the chalet and did the circuit of the Famelon, fully expecting that there would be a lot of
Since the abrupt end to the ski season we’ve been out and about around Leysin. We’ve had a stretch of great spring weather, at least for walking. Like most of the winter that came before it’s been really dry and the cantons are issuing fire warnings. Looking at the forecast I can see we’ve got
La Pare is a peak on the ridge to the south of Les Diablerets and one I’d not been up before. Having a few hours free we made the climb up from Marnex which is a tiny hamlet high on the side of the valley. From the summit, there are great views over to the
Some slightly old photos from late summer that I didn’t get around to posting. This is a trip up the Rocher du Midi starting from Etivaz in the next valley. We took a route up via the Plan de la Douve which is indirect but quite a nice hike in its own right, it’s steep
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