Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
Skiing and avoiding Covid
We always reckon February is the best month to ski in the Alps … it has perhaps the best chance of fresh powder and soft snow, slightly longer days, and a fair chance of sunshine kissed weather! However, we last skied in France in February 2020, just before the Covid pandemic took the world into …
More skiing – off-piste, touring, and powder bashing…
Val d’Isere & Tignes
Zermatt
Having failed to get our act together for the Haute Route for all sorts of reasons, and having booked a hotel in Zermatt that wouldn’t let us cancel without full payment (!), we decided to go and ski in Zermatt anyhow. This turned in to quite an exciting prospect as only Dawn out of our …
Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!
Laetitia and I had planned to do the Haute Route with Ian, Rachel and Andy, and Dawn and Austin several months earlier. However, first Ian had to drop out due to work commitments. Then Austin had to bail because of illness. And now as we arrived in Chamonix Laetitia had caught a wicked flu from …
Three Valleys Skiing
Joining Dave, Dean, and Jon in the Three Valleys for a week of skiing was always going to involve a lot of fast skiing action! With us all, eventually as Jon resisted the allure of the tech, logging our days out with various GPS enabled Apps on our phones we were able to capture an …

















