Deep powder at Planpraz
Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
Snow and Ice – Brevent et La Cremerie
We’re in Chamonix for a long weekend. We planned to meet up with some friends I had made while I was working in Nottingham. They are here for a long weekend skiing trip and we thought it would be great to catch up with them and maybe go for a ski tour together. We all …
Postal delay
All Work and No Play
Skiing nightmare, Christmas 2010
It’s the other stuff that wasn’t so much fun. The week before Christmas I found myself sitting in an aeroplane at Manchester airport for 2 1/2 hours, with frozen WCs and no water for hot drinks, while it was deiced sufficiently to take off. We thought we were lucky to be on one of the …
Winter starts 2010
… until I got up and looked out of the window and saw the snow. So I went for a walk with Sabiene instead – here she is at Watersmeet: Of course when we got to Caldbeck we stopped for tea and cake at the Old Smithy Cafe, but the cake tasted much better than …
Polar Painting
Some rock, some snow, some more rock and some more snow
Our last few days in Chamonix have seen us attempt a few adventures, but for one reason or another have not seen any major successes. Cascade de Doran On Thursday we went in search of rock. We’d picked out Cascade de Doran which is on the south side of the valley from Sallanche, because it …
Les Trois Cols
