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From Vallee Blanche Powder
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From Burfday Powder
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From Chamonix Dinosaurs
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From L'Enclume, Les Fiz
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From Shutter Renovation
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From Last Day of Cragging at Gaillands
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From Aiguille du Tour
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From Slabs and cake at Les Cheserys
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.
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.
Who’d have though there were dinosaurs in Chamonix!
This weekend we took advantage of some reasonably priced flights and took a trip to Chamonix.
With her keen eye for decoration Laetitia had noticed (i.e. nagged me about 😉 ) the weathered state (splitting wood and flaking paint 🙁 ) of our shutters. So, being a two-man job lifting the shutters off, and in particular back on to, their hinges I recruited a decorating professional
The morning dawned misty in the valley, so after a late breakfast of pain au chocolat and coffee in town we had a late start for a short midday session at Les Gaillands. The crag was deserted, as the holiday period was over, or was it because only English climb in the heat of the …
Usually when we’re in Chamonix, I don’t often get the opportunity to do an easy route, but with Ian supporting me we persuaded Pete to go for the easy but classic Aiguille du Tour.
While Ian and I waited for Laetitia and Astrid to finish their route on the Aiguille Rouge, sitting on a boulder chatting about this and that, we realised that within just a few metres of where we were sat was an incredible array of alpine flowers.
With the promise of an afternoon thunderstorm and aching, ageing limbs, I was pleased that we had decided to head for the relatively close Les Cheserys up at the Col des Montets.
