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From Boxing Day Cross Country at the
Canmore Nordic Centre
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From Xmas Skiing in Chamonix
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From Mont Blanc failure...
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From Crevasse Rescue Practice
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From Skiing Rice Pudding at Les Houches
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From April Powder!
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From Contamine - Cloudy Skiing
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From Skiing in Mayrhofen
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From Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season...
Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
We have long neglected the wonderful facilities of the Canmore Nordic Centre – pisted cross country runs of up to 30Km.
This year we have gate-crashed my sister’s Christmas holiday and joined them for skiing in Chamonix.
We’d come to Chamonix with the objective of climbing Mont Blanc on ski. But, the weather hasn’t really been on our side – we’ve had big dumps of fresh snow, thick cloud on the mountains, hot temperatures, and consequent massive slushy avalanches. However, on Monday morning we got all excited when, from Chamonix, we spied …
Today there was no fresh snow, no clouds, no wind, and – can you believe it – blue skies! Having achieved little in the way of the ski touring we’d planned due to the weather, it was decided that a day in the Vallee Blanche would be fun – isn’t it always!
Today Laetitia joined us, she’d been forced to join the team late due to work commitments (have I ever mentioned that work sucks?). This meant we didn’t get out until 12 noon. We waited for the free ski bus and grabbed the first one, regardless of destination, to maximise our time skiing. The first bus …
A fresh dump of deep powder at this time of year is welcome for resort skiing, but not so welcome for ski touring!
As a warm up for what should be a week of ski touring Ian, Chris, and I headed up on to the pistes at Les Contamine. Ian and Chris had already had a day skiing, but I needed a few runs to help remind the legs what do with skis attached!
Richard and I are skiing in Mayrhofen this week. The snow on our first ski day was really good (particularly for Easter), but we were in the cloud all day and so the visibility was not great. It was tricky to see the piste-markers and at times we had to wait for skiers to come …
A couple of last images from Chamonix… It’s always good to remember good times, and the skiing this year in Chamonix and Courmayeur was awesome, really awesome! So much powder!
