Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
We had great plans today - catching the early telegraphique, ski across to the Tour Ronde, tick the North Face and ski the Mer de Glace... However, news of a fatality on that mountain the day before put us off somewhat...
Ok this was the weekend before last but its the first chance I got to write anything up. Trev, Jax & I noticed the piste conditions in Scotland were the best in years...
This weekend was the British Orienteering Championships. The slight inconvenience was the destination: Culbin near Inverness...
We'd hoped to ski the Vallee Blanche this year but had thought we'd missed our chance. But Friday's fresh snow and Saturday's skiing practice set us up for one of the super classic off-piste descents of the alps.
We had intended to climb in the Aiguilles Rouges today, but when we arrived in Chamonix yesterday it was raining - a lot, which meant fresh snow up higher! So today's sports plan was altered to account for the fresh snow...
Car Camping, Snowy Scotland, Roaming Reindeer, Slow Skiing, Mini Marathons and Heavenly Hot Chocolate - there would be more , but there is a limit...
Chamonix ended up being quite expensive: I left my super red lunch box on the plane (and no one handed it in, so someone's knicked it! Or they did a controlled explosion on it - nothing on the news though, so maybe not); broken back tooth; broken rucksack...
We crunched our breakfast this morning - un pain avec abricot confiture - and something crunched harder than I expected. I'd broken my tooth! But nothing was going to stop play today...
