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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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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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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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
