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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Just a few photos from the weekend on the col de la Croix over near Les Diablerets. Surprisingly, it’s the first time I’ve been over there this season largely because the early season snow wasn’t great and I went elsewhere. But, snow cover is excellent now although it was slightly heavy and untracked so we
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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
Just a few snaps from last week (Easter) around here. Spring is on the way now, the ski lifts in Leysin closed yesterday (10th April) but the glacier skiing is still open with some alpine and nordic skiing. We had a couple of days out on Monts Chevreuils and a snowshoe walk up to the
The 38th International Balloon Festival is running over at Château-d’Oex this week so we’ve been over with a couple of sets of people to snowshoe on Monts-Chevreuils and watch the balloons. On both occasions we descended to Les Moulins to take advantage of the grandstand view. So far, the warm temperatures haven’t done too much
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Les Monts Chevreuils is an abandoned ski station in the next valley, it’s one of my favorite places for ski touring and snowshoeing, great slopes and a really nice refuge on the top serving excellent food. I would have guessed it would have been busy yesterday, mid-week, good snow, better forecast than the other days
Isenau isn’t the first choice for snowshoeing but right now they’re only running a couple of drag lifts for skiing so the upper slopes are empty making it quiet. The attraction is the great views over the Arnensee and the fact the slopes generally hold snow well. We didn’t quite go to the high point
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Although the piste conditions don’t look great there’s still some fantastic snowshoeing around the area. The weather is superb for snowshoeing really; fresh but no cloud and quite sunny so the views are sensational. Yesterday we went over to Isenau, the small ski area above Les Diablerets. The cable car is still running so it’s
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