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
It’s always hit and miss this time of year for snowshoeing and skiing, the snow is hard to predict but more often than not there’s at least a few days that are excellent. Today was one, cold, sunny and quiet. Of course the lifts aren’t running and that’s a bonus, it means you’ve got the
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin We’ve been having some interesting weather recently, very little snow until boxing day followed a few days later by a thaw and rain. Last week
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These are from last week but I’ve been busy and not had chance to post them, there was some good snow at the top but some warmer weather has melted that. It’s all a bit too early to worry about snow but I see that’s not stopped PeanutSki (pay peanuts, get that kind of reporting)
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This week I was up on Pierre du Moëllé above Leysin in warm spring weather. I though it would be a great place to go with nice, clear weather and views over to Mont Blanc like this one: We climbed quite a long way up onto the ridge and might have gone further but as
The winter season is drawing to a close now and spring is arriving below 2000m, in a few weeks even the higher passes will be clear of snow and we’ll start some of our spring walking weeks. I’ve taken a lot of photo’s over the winter while out and about with clients and this a
