Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
It will probably have melted by the time you get to look 🙁 at this webcam from Place Balmat, but today there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix centre, and the forecast says there’ll be more overnight! Obviously it snows in Chamonix’s high mountains all year, but it gets quite exciting when the first …
The team raise a glass.... with an impressive backdrop......
Anna, Laetitia, Ian and Pete tackle the world famous ski mountaineering multi-day traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt; “the” Haute Route… How hard could it be? We’d convinced ourselves that mountaineering skills were more important than skiing skills, so it should be easy, right?
A bit of a preparation is probably a good idea before starting a long adventure like the Haute Route. In our case it was essential...
It's been a while coming, but here we are back in Chamonix with the classic traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt, the Haute Route, taking up the agenda for the next week...
Another weekend in Chamonix ski touring in warm spring conditions (10ËšC) and with deep powder everywhere.
After a day honing our skiing technique at the local ski area we headed high as the temperatures were rising in the valley.
How much is possible in just one weekend? Well, partly thanks to cheap flights a weekend in the Alps is possible. But what about redecorating a flat and going on a long ski tour all day Saturday too?
After some wintry showers, I decided to take the skis for a bit of a slide around the the tops of the fells in the far north of the Lakes.
