What's not: Price & temperature of a vaguely warm hot chocolate on the mountain at Les Houches, 5 euros, you are having a laugh!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Mont Blanc Treks: Whats hot and whats not this week
What's hot: The warm Foehn wind blowing through the Val Ferret yesterday making things feel positively spring like.
What's not: Price & temperature of a vaguely warm hot chocolate on the mountain at Les Houches, 5 euros, you are having a laugh!
What's not: Price & temperature of a vaguely warm hot chocolate on the mountain at Les Houches, 5 euros, you are having a laugh!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Whats hot, whats not this week in the Chamonix Valley
What's hot: lots of interest in the Walkers Haute Route trek from Chamonix to Zermatt. 190 kms, 9,000 mtrs of height gain, 14 high mountain cols, 2 countries. This is the ultimate tough long distance trek and is fast becoming as popular than it's nearby rival the Tour du Mont Blanc.
What's not: Chamonix has see its lowest winter temperatures for many years. Dropping to a cool -23 and staying at a constant -15 for the past 10 days. It's played havoc with car drivers with the wrong type of fuel that will not cope with such low temperatures.
What's not: Chamonix has see its lowest winter temperatures for many years. Dropping to a cool -23 and staying at a constant -15 for the past 10 days. It's played havoc with car drivers with the wrong type of fuel that will not cope with such low temperatures.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Snowshoe trek of the week or the century?
Snowshoe trek of the week has to go to the traverse of the Brevent to the Aiguillette des Houches. After the ridiculous amount of snow that fell last weekend it was tough going at the start of the week breaking trail though 1m of new snow that fallen during Friday night to Saturday morning.
More snow & low cloud meant that we had to choose routes that were more protected from the elements. Thursday looked good so on the request of the clients Martyn & Annette we decided on a trip up the Brevent. We were not disappointed and in true Chamonix style we were treated to a visual delight with 360•'s of absolutely stunning views.
We took the Plan Praz lift from Chamonix centre and then to the top of the Brevent at 2525 mtrs from here we ducked underneath the rope and headed steeply down at first before traversing along the ridge to the Col du Bel Lachat. A steady climb took us back up to 2300 mtrs and the summit of the Aiguillette des Houches with stunning views to the Aiguille Vert in the East, Mont Blanc to the south, chaine des Aravis & Megeve to the west and Rochers des Fiz and Mont Buet to the North. Returning via the same route, Wow I challenge anyone to find a more spectacular day out on snowshoes than this!
More snow & low cloud meant that we had to choose routes that were more protected from the elements. Thursday looked good so on the request of the clients Martyn & Annette we decided on a trip up the Brevent. We were not disappointed and in true Chamonix style we were treated to a visual delight with 360•'s of absolutely stunning views.
We took the Plan Praz lift from Chamonix centre and then to the top of the Brevent at 2525 mtrs from here we ducked underneath the rope and headed steeply down at first before traversing along the ridge to the Col du Bel Lachat. A steady climb took us back up to 2300 mtrs and the summit of the Aiguillette des Houches with stunning views to the Aiguille Vert in the East, Mont Blanc to the south, chaine des Aravis & Megeve to the west and Rochers des Fiz and Mont Buet to the North. Returning via the same route, Wow I challenge anyone to find a more spectacular day out on snowshoes than this!
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