Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
We had a quiet day today to rest our muscles. Pete worked on the Tremadog guidebook and I learnt some more French. By early afternoon I was getting cabin fever so I decided we should take a walk up the ‘other’ Cogne valley, the Valnontey valley, to check out the conditions of the routes up …
Today we went somewhere new; through the tunnel to the other side of Mont Blanc...
There was still snow in the air but we decided we had to take advantage of all the fresh powder that had fallen yesterday and over night. We stayed local and took the super fast Brevent lift. The piste seemed almost empty compared to the mad hoards at Christmas and New Year, and the conditions …
As every year the Nero Snow Trip took place again and we (Mina & Rebecca) spend a fantastic weekend in the Austrian Swiss Alps...
Today I joined Sean and Chris for a ski up Blencathra.....
The Chatsworth ski resort opens for the season.
For the second year Running the pistes in the Chilterns are looking good. Found a new run off the back of Whitleaf Hill this morning and got some turns in before work...
It seemed strange to leave England's fantastic snowy weather and arrive in France for a week's skiing only to find it raining! But of course up higher it was snowing...
With fairly good snow cover continuing, Anna and I took the opportunity to grab Andy and Sabiene's neighbour Helen for a ski tour up High Pike.
