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From Crevasse Rescue Practice
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From Skiing Rice Pudding at Les Houches
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From April Powder!
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From Contamine - Cloudy Skiing
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From Skiing in Mayrhofen
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From Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season...
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From Vallee Blanche Powder
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From Courmayeur - better weather, awesome powder,
and the best hot chocolate in the world
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From Burfday Powder
Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
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 Vallee Blanche would be fun – isn’t it always!
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 …
A fresh dump of deep powder at this time of year is welcome for resort skiing, but not so welcome for ski touring!
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!
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 …
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!
After days and days of lots and lots of snow, with poor visibility and high winds keeping skiers on the lower slopes, at last the day came when we had sunshine and no wind. It had to be a day for the Vallee Blanche.
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.
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.
