I’m pretty sure this is the best local day on snowshoes although it’s slightly ambitious with quite a long climb on snow that’s mostly like concrete. The snowshoes were pretty vital though for their spikes and crampons. It was fairly surreal climbing the last few metres on hard, steep snow to step into the sun […]
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A few snaps from last week, we took a trip up Pic Chaussy to see how the snow was. The quick answer is that the north slopes on Pic Chaussy escaped the worst of the foehn wind but there were a few people on the main trails so they’re tracked and then frozen so they’re
Snow conditions still aren’t ideal, but there are some great days out to be had if you know where to look. Pic Chaussy has a number of north-facing slopes and holds snow really quite well so even though the ski runs in the Col des Mosses were closed there was still good snow higher up.
Plan A was to go up Mont d’Or but it turned out that the Swiss Army were using the firing range on the flanks of the mountain. The summit, and ascent, were actually just outside the notified firing range but we didn’t want to be climbing up accompanied by gunfire! So, we decided to go
Freshly returned from the Dolomites I’d got some people in for our local walking program. I think last week had some of the best weather we’ve had all summer, clear and sunny but not too warm for walking up and down hills. We got some great days out as usual, that’s some of the limestone
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We were joined yesterday by Graeme and David who are preparing for their International Mountain Leader assessment in a few weeks which is being held in this area for the second year running. We started off at a local fromagerie that we visit frequently to look at how traditional Gruyère cheese is made before heading
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