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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Probably the best option in the region right now, we took a day trip to the hospice du Grand St Bernard. It’s not a day trip we normally do but it has reasonable snow cover and it’s a great day out on a sunny day like today. More details on here : Gd St Bernard
According to the Facebook “On this day” feature, showing photo’s from the same day in different years, I’ve been up at the hospice on these days most of the last four years. Just to add a small variation, and a small jeopardy, my car developed a problem driving through one of the tunnels with all
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This is a handful of photo’s from a quick overnight trip L’Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard on snowshoes with three great guys from the USA. I’d picked the last couple of days to make the trip since the weather looked the best of the week. It was sunny and dry, at the top if was around -6°C
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Last week I was on a regular trip to L’hospice du Grand-St-Bernard with a group from the UK. We made our way up in some fairly wild conditions with the customary wind driving down the pass blowing the falling snow into our faces! On the way up I snapped this shot of the snow which
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This was a postponed trip from earlier in the week when the col had been hit with winds in excess of 100kph and I really wasn’t too happy about the safety of the trip. In fact, we’d actually retreated in poor weather last week when the wind reversed direction and started to create some worrying
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