Sarah was visiting for Easter and wanted to visit the hospice on skis so yesterday looked a reasonable weather window to go up and down. Since it’s a holiday season there was a steady stream of skiers up and down the route. Snow cover is complete over the whole route and the depth is quite […]
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Taking advantage of a sunny day and the fact that the snow is better higher up we headed up to the hospice yesterday as a day trip. While it must have been busy over the weekend only a handful of people had skied it since the last snow and it was great to see 100%
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According to the Facebook “On this day” feature, showing photo’s from the same day in different years, I’ve been up at the hospice on these days most of the last four years. Just to add a small variation, and a small jeopardy, my car developed a problem driving through one of the tunnels with all
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Last week we visited L’ Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard on skis, this was a first for Julie who’d not been before in the winter. The snow conditions have been less than ideal, but the route to the hospice is north facing and holds snow quite well. As a lot of skiers and snowshoers make the trip
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This is a handful of photo’s from a quick overnight trip L’Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard on snowshoes with three great guys from the USA. I’d picked the last couple of days to make the trip since the weather looked the best of the week. It was sunny and dry, at the top if was around -6°C
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Last week I was on a regular trip to L’hospice du Grand-St-Bernard with a group from the UK. We made our way up in some fairly wild conditions with the customary wind driving down the pass blowing the falling snow into our faces! On the way up I snapped this shot of the snow which
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This was a postponed trip from earlier in the week when the col had been hit with winds in excess of 100kph and I really wasn’t too happy about the safety of the trip. In fact, we’d actually retreated in poor weather last week when the wind reversed direction and started to create some worrying
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It was the first weekend of the summer season here in Leysin and although the weather forecast was unsettled the lifts were running and a couple of the mountain restaurants were open. I’d a day planned with one of our guests and I’d hoped we could get onto the tops here and get some good
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