From Into the Wild, Vallon de Berard
From Mont Blanc failure...
From Crevasse Rescue Practice
From Skiing Rice Pudding at Les Houches
From April Powder!
From Contamine - Cloudy Skiing
From Frendo-Ravanel, Part 2
From Frendo-Ravanel, Part 1
From Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season...

Into the Wild, Vallon de Berard

Saturday, 15th June 2013

We’ve come to Chamonix for the weekend for a quick fix of Alpine Rock adventure.

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 Vallee 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!

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!

Frendo-Ravanel, Part 2

Wednesday, 27th March 2013

The axe ripped. I was off! The air left my lungs involuntarily, sounding the alarm as it passed my vocal chords, its pitch raised. The sound of total, all-embracing, fear.

Frendo-Ravanel, Part 1

Friday, 22nd March 2013

My alarm chirped into life, sounding every bit as pleased with itself as it usually did. It was 4am. I shuffled in my sleeping bag to free an arm to silence it and fumbled for my head torch.

Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season…

Monday, 18th February 2013

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!

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