From Castle Rock and Stone Circle
From Mont Blanc failure...
From Crevasse Rescue Practice
From Skiing Rice Pudding at Les Houches
From April Powder!
From Contamine - Cloudy Skiing
From Sunny on Scafell Pike
From The Dam Water

Castle Rock and Stone Circle

Sunday, 21st April 2013

The sun was shining but it was still a bit cool, so we had a short day on the beautiful rock at Castle Rock of Triermain.

Mont Blanc failure…

Tuesday, 16th April 2013

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 …

Crevasse Rescue Practice

Saturday, 13th April 2013

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 ValleÃ© Blanche would be fun – isn’t it always!

Skiing Rice Pudding at Les Houches

Friday, 12th April 2013

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 …

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!

Matienzo epilogue

Tuesday, 9th April 2013

A memorable end...

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!

Sunny on Scafell Pike

Saturday, 6th April 2013

I was supposed to be in Les Contamines today, enjoying some ski touring, but work commitments meant I had to postpone my departure. As consolation I went for a bit of a walk in the hills, this time without the heavy bag.