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From Burfday Powder
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From CSS Annual Dinner
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From Kentmere Ski Touring
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From Snowy Scotland
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From Ski Touring @Schliersee (Bavaria)
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From Lakeland Skiing
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From Chamonix Skiing Picture Fest!
Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
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.
Despite snow falling thick and fast at home and despite our road being like an ice rink, we headed to Whitewalls for the annual dinner weekend. The roads were pretty clear until we reached Brymawr. A small icy hill was impassable and left us finding another way round to the start of the tramroad which …
On Friday it snowed all day and well in to the night. We checked the forecast for the Saturday, and although the temperatures were rising and rain was on its way, it looked like the snow might stick around for long enough for us to have some fun in Kentmere.
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 …
As I needed to train a bit for our Chamonix adventure in January/Februar I had to do something about the lack of ski touring experience for the last couple of years. Visiting Max at his new place in Miesbach, Bavaria we decided to take the risk and despite the rain, which poured down on us …
What a laugh we had today – a bit of early season skiing in one of the least likely resorts – the Lake District…
Snow and beer in the Pyrenees...
The last couple of weeks have found Anna and me joined by Zac, Steve, Brian and Jo ski touring around the area of the Vanoise.
The highlight of the week was when Dean & Dave overlapped their week's skiing with the end of ours and we joined up for a weekend of fun that ended with a descent of the Vallee Blanche...
