Off piste powder heaven at Le Tour
Deep powder at Planpraz
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 …
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 …
Larses
We arrived in Chamonix on Friday evening and it was tipping it down! It didn’t look good for a dry-rock weekend… Saturday – Larses …however, on Saturday morning we woke (not early!) to glorious wall-to-wall sunshine. A quick check on the snow level showed that climbing in the valley would be a good idea for …
Arete des Cosmiques
Arete des Cosmiques – such a classic and I had never done it before! We had a late flight booked so we knew we could get a reasonable day in the mountains, even if we didn’t get up early. We took a leisurely start and joined the hordes at the lift station. We got to …
Vingt mille lieues sous la neige
Fontainebleau
A journey home from Chamonix, when you’re not in a hurry, can’t be complete without a diversion to Fontainebleau. I chose Beauvais, a venue pretty close to the A6 (Route du Soleil) and with a very short walk in (50m). I thought this was a new venue for us, until half way round the orange …
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 …