I thought that it might be slightly difficult driving today with people going home and some fairly poor road conditions so I thought it would make a nice change to do something from the door of the chalet. Basically, just a snowshoe up through the forest cutting across the mountain and then dropping into nearby […]
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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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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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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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We’d a mixed group of people for snowshoeing yesterday, a couple of people who’d never tried it before and a couple who’d not only been out with me the day before but had been here last winter. So I wanted a route that our regulars hadn’t done before that the our new guests would enjoy.
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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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It certainly feels like winter is here now although the snow has melted around the chalet. Up the mountain it’s beginning to accumulate and it’s cold enough that, apart from sunny south slopes, it’s not melting too much. I decided to take advantage of the great weather and climb the Tour de Famelon, one of
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It’s been a bit mad here! I’ve had some great days out and some trips to the Hospice du Grand St Bernard and not posted a blog at all, I’ll save the last hospice photo’s for another blog though otherwise this will be too long. This is just a quick round-up of photos from different
Following some scarce snow, we started to return to a more normal snowpack on Christmas day. As predicted this fell onto some old fragile snow which hasn’t made a good base and, sadly, much as expected there’s been a spate of accidents around the alps. Along with some avalanche incidents, there’s been a few off-piste
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