A circuit from home to Vers L’Eglise and back with a great lunch at the L’Auberge de L’Ours in Vers L’Eglise. This combined some of the best trail sections into a nice route with some good variety.
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I’ve considered this route a few times but it’s pretty clear from the map and my memory that some sections are not easily rideable. And, that’s exactly how it turned out, the descent from the col d’Isenau has a few flowing sections but there’s a few sections where it’s pretty tricky. I was surprised that
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The new telecabine in Les Diablerets runs in the summer now and you can take a bike or e-bike inside. It runs from the village up to the top of the col de la Croix so it avoids a long climb and it’s worth using to explore the many trails around the Villars/Les Diablerets area.
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From Les Diablerets up to Isenau and then on to the col des Andérets before descending via Lac Retuad and some really nice trails back into Les Diablerets.
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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
This is a short descent and climb from the back of the Isenau ski area. It’s a little north facing valley so it holds the snow well and has some excellent spring skiing. On the south side, there’re a few bits of grass coming through! There’s a reason Julie is carrying her old skis. We
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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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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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The col de la Croix is always a reliable destination on snowshoes and today we had time to climb the Pointe d’Arpille as well. It’s a rounded peak with a nice ridge approach and descent off a convex slope onto another ridge. Stepping off the summit is a little odd for a few metres and
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