This is a favorite local tour climbing up to the pas de Cheville. There was still snow in places and the last few hundred metres were awkward. On these spring days there’s also still some avalanches as the high gullys below Glacier 3000 release their snow. The pas de Cheville is a wide open alpage […]
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This week I’ve been at the International Commission for Alpine Rescue ICAR convention in nearby Montreux. I’m a delegate to AVACOM which is the Avalanche Commission. I’ve also been representing UIMLA and I was invited by MountainSafety.info to make a presentation about about how their avalanche education resources are used in a professional setting like
International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR) Convention, Montreux 2022 Read More »
It’s been a tough couple of years and one of the impacts has been on the normal training for our UIMLA aspirant members. As a result of the relationship between UIMLA and MountainSafety.info I invited Manuel Genswein to join BAIML in a special training event in Les Diablerets in the Swiss Alps. Manuel is an
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This is a bit of a cross-over post, like those episodes of CSI where the guys from New York turn up in Las Vegas. I’m a director of British Association of International Mountain Leaders (baiml.org) and the President of the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (uimla.org). In my UIMLA role I’ve managed the process
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While avalanche risks remains high and it’s good to find some milder terrain. And, we’ve not actually been to the Cabane des Monts-Chevreuils this season. They’re offering a takeout service, so you can buy some food drink and find a space in the snow to enjoy. It’s a good arrangement and works well even on
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The ski station at Château-d’Oex closed a couple of years ago and it’s now a good destination for some ski tours. There’s a high avalanche risk currently so the easy angled slopes are ideal. The best access is via Gérignoz where an older lift ran from but that closed a few years before the rest
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Having a few hours free but not being entirely free of the bronchitis that’s been troubling us today seemed a good chance to try one of the Movement-sponsored touring tracks over at Les Diablerets. I think they’ve been in for a couple of seasons now but the couple on the Isenau side take on a
Isenau & Ortovox Ascent 30L Avabag Read More »
After the extreme weather of a few weeks ago, the ski bus linking Les Mosses and Leysin wasn’t running due to a landslide onto the route. I think it restarted yesterday or in the last couple of days. It’s a great service because it lets you leave the car on the Col des Mosses and
Pierre du Moëllé & Ortovox Free Rider 22L Avabag Read More »
We’ve had three International Mountain Leader aspirants here this week, Cormac, Martin and Alan with his wife Helen (who are frequent visitors). So we’ve been out and about sampling some of the range of snowshoeing we’ve got in this region. At the start of the week, the col de La Croix near Les Diablerets provided some
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