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From Aiguille du Tour
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From Almost a triathlon
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From Vajolet Towers - Delagokante
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From Slabs and cake at Les Cheserys
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From Aiguille Rouge
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From Eperon Nord, North West slabs of
Aiguille du Peigne
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From Girls Weekend Out(Door)
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From At last a day without paint - L'ile aux Razmokets
Usually when we’re in Chamonix, I don’t often get the opportunity to do an easy route, but with Ian supporting me we persuaded Pete to go for the easy but classic Aiguille du Tour.
Since I started swimming a year or so ago and even more so since I bought a road bike, people have been asking if I’m going to do a triathlon. This was never my intention, however when one was organised on my doorstep, the temptation was too great. As it turns out, I didn’t actually …
The Delagokante is the one that features in every Dolomite calendar, numerous postcards and picture books.
While Ian and I waited for Laetitia and Astrid to finish their route on the Aiguille Rouge, sitting on a boulder chatting about this and that, we realised that within just a few metres of where we were sat was an incredible array of alpine flowers.
With the promise of an afternoon thunderstorm and aching, ageing limbs, I was pleased that we had decided to head for the relatively close Les Cheserys up at the Col des Montets.
After the adventures of yesterday we were looking for a more relaxed day today. We headed to the top of the Index chairlift.
We left Chamonix early and arrived at the Aiguille du Plan with frost still covering the grass – the north facing cliff we’d selected for today’s adventures was going to be cold!
How to define a perfect girls weekend outDoor? Switzerland 1000m in hight uphill bivouac at 2500m sleeping under the starry sky during the nights of the perseids surrunded by several 4000m mountains (Eiger, Wetterhorn, Schreckhorn, Finsteraarhorn, etc.) whisteling marmots to accompany our dinner and chamoise flocks arround us being the first ones on the route …
After what seemed like endless days of scraping, sanding, painting, and more painting of the apartment’s shutters [more on that latter with before and after pictures] Ian and I finally got out to do some climbing…
