Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
Today's sports plan was to ski into the Gausta area...
Loads of snow fell overnight, so Ian, Anna and Jon headed for the local ski area to enjoy fresh powder...
After yesterday's efforts our leg muscles were knackered. Well Laetitia's and mine were. Actually if the truth be told, mostly just mine! And as Dave reported almost no aches and pains, it seems that it's true that skiing makes higher demands on the thigh muscles than snowboarding? Anyway, all of this led us to turn to the idea of enjoying some piste skiing to save ourselves from more punishment...
We decided to take Dave on the amazing Crochues-Berard traverse tour to discover Snowboard mountaineering! The climb up to the Crochues col followed by the traverse across to and climb up to the Berard col were easy. But the descent was another story...
With the promise of good weather and loads of snow in Scotland, Anna and I headed north for a day skiing.......
We spent a week hiding away in Chamonix over New Year, and we arrived with every intention of undertaking all winter mountain sports...
It will probably have melted by the time you get to look 🙁 at this webcam from Place Balmat, but today there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix centre, and the forecast says there’ll be more overnight! Obviously it snows in Chamonix’s high mountains all year, but it gets quite exciting when the first …
The team raise a glass.... with an impressive backdrop......
Anna, Laetitia, Ian and Pete tackle the world famous ski mountaineering multi-day traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt; “the” Haute Route… How hard could it be? We’d convinced ourselves that mountaineering skills were more important than skiing skills, so it should be easy, right?
