From April Powder!
From Contamine - Cloudy Skiing
From Skiing in Mayrhofen
From Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season...
From Courmayeur - better weather, awesome powder,
and the best hot chocolate in the world
From Burfday Powder
From Snowy Scotland
From Lakeland Skiing

Category: Skiing

Skiing (on piste).

April Powder!

Thursday, 11th April 2013

A fresh dump of deep powder at this time of year is welcome for resort skiing, but not so welcome for ski touring!

Contamine – Cloudy Skiing

Monday, 8th April 2013

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!

Skiing in Mayrhofen

Tuesday, 2nd April 2013

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 …

Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season…

Monday, 18th February 2013

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!

Courmayeur – better weather, awesome powder,
and the best hot chocolate in the world

Friday, 8th February 2013

Dave sent a text at 7am to say he wasn’t going out today so there would be a spare bus ticket going for Courmayeur.

Burfday Powder

Friday, 8th February 2013

We used the Lizard-Spock Expansion of the classic rock-paper-scissors game to decide where to go and play in the deepening powder on our birthday celebration day. Well, actually we used the game to decide who got to choose the venue... Laetitia won, and Les Grands Montets was chosen.

Snowy Scotland

Thursday, 3rd January 2013

We spent the post-Christmas week in Newtonmore near Aviemore with Elsie and seven other climbers/runners. Almost as soon as we arrived, snow started falling and we made the most of it! Day 1. Hills behind Kingussie On day 1, Richard and I ventured into the hills behind the cottages where we’re all staying. Our aim …