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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Just sorting a few photos and I thought I’d post these. I’ve taken snowshoe groups into the valley on the north of Leysin but I don’t go too often. As it’s north facing it also makes a good ski tour location so I’ve a few photo’s from skiing to the small peak of Aussemont and
It’s not really winter until I’ve had the first croûte au fromage at the cabane Monts Chevreuils and today was the first weekday they opened. Add in that the sun was out and there was only one place to go. We skinned up the south side from the military base and skied a line back
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Mostly today I’m struck by how good the camera on my phone is! It’s a Moto G5S Plus and we both have them. The reviews claim it’s not a good camera, I’m assuming it much depends on what you point it at. Anyway, for the first of time of no doubt many I went up
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Sorry, no tales of epic steep descents, it’s only November. Having been running a First Aid course over the weekend and then travelling to the UK tomorrow this was the only window to have a ski this week. We popped over to the col des Mosses with no clear plan other than to skin up
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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It took a medium amount of effort to be able to crack that joke. Truex is on the ridge above Leysin between the Tour de Famelon and Tour de Mayen. It’s reachable on skis in the winter with a climb from the restaurant Les Fers. In many ways it’s more accessible in winter, the cracked
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The snow is settling now into a spring pattern with freezes at night and warming up during the day. Before it gets too warm at these heights I thought I’d take a quick ski up to Pierre du Moëllé. I was in a minor quandary about how high to climb, higher up and the snow
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