We’ve done this many times before but it was the first time this year. Travelling last week in Macedonia and then to Amsterdam for a UIMLA meeting I was looking forward to taking a day on the tops above home. And it was a perfect day for it, with an early start it was cool […]
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This is only the second time I’ve climbed this via Ferrata. The first time was last year when Sarah and I did it in in one 6-hour speed ascent. This time Julie, Sarah and I decided to make it a more relaxed ascent and spent the night in the refuge Pierredar. The first day is
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Julie’s sister Sarah has been staying with us this summer helping us with the B&B and we’ve been having a few mountain days around the area. It’s time for her to go home so we planned a last big day to finish the trip. There’s a route called “La via ferrata des dames Anglaises” over
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I last did this via ferrata in 2009 so it was long overdue to go back and do it again! The mountain station of Moléson-sur-Gruyères always impresses me, they’re always able to pull in crowds with a range of activities on offer all summer or winter. Since I was last there the top lift has
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This is fairly local, it’s just the other side of the Rhône valley in Champéry which is part of the Swiss Portes du Soleil ski/sport region. It’s about 30mins walk from the main car park and tops out not far from a restaurant. It’s a nice walk back into town again along a dramatic gallery.
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Two different days and two different “tours”. On Friday we climbed our local via ferrata on the Tour d’Aï with the usual great, great views over lake Geneva. Having climbed via ferrata in Switzerland and the Dolomites I can honestly say our local route is one of the best. It’s K4 or DIFFICULT and is
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The weather forecast had signalled for a few days that yesterday would be a perfect mountain day, clear skies, no wind and temperatures in the mid to high ‘teens. We had guests at the B&B but they finished breakfast early so we rode the lift up at a little after 9am and walked up to
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After looking at the weather forecast last Monday morning and having a rare gap in bookings, we decided to grab the chance to go to the Dolomites for a few days and headed for Cortina d’Ampezzo. I’ve been several times before for work and for some skiing but I’ve never driven there. It’s not easy
I’d really wanted to do the long via ferrata Ivano Dibona, probably stopping at the rifugio Lorenzi, but the weather forecast was a bit variable and I’d not really wanted to set out on an 8 hour route on my own in less than optimum weather. But I was really eager to climb something in
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