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I finally got the chance to work on some of the videos from our trip to France – the anaemic netbook I took away was barely powerful enough to view the videos, let alone edit them, and our net connection wasn’t strong enough to upload in HD. So here’s some short videos of our BC
With the foehn still persisting in Chamonix we had another enforced day off after our adventure to Trient. Winds & Clouds meant that most interesting options were off the radar, and we didn’t really feel like yo-yo-ing on the pistes with the hordes. Word was filtering through that the Monte Rosa region of Italy had
[ad#Adsense Banner] So while the first couple of weeks blessed us with clear skies, mild temperatures, low winds and a couple of snowfalls, our third week was proving a little tougher. A persistent foehn in the valley was making things quite unpleasant, and while it was being driven by snowfall on the Italian slope, high
After a well-earned day off it was time to ski. While there had been a terrible foehn blowing in Chamonix, on the other side of the range in Italy it had been snowing, so we decided to head through the tunnel to check it out. The scenes at either end of the tunnel could not
With poor weather on the horizon and the end to the bluebird skies we had been enjoying, we were attempting to squeeze out one more day before taking a day off on Sunday. With the foehn increasing in the Chamonix valley we drove around to Les Contamines which is a resort below the east face
We had originally wanted to ski this couloir the day before, but there was a chilly northerly breeze that Jerome was afraid would prevent the couloir softening up, which would make it an absolute death trap. But today was still with a slight southerly, which meant we could go and ski one of the bigger
[ad#Adsense Banner] We were pretty exhausted after our road trip, but with a couple of days of sunshine forecast to be followed by some poor weather we decided to make the most of the blue skies and push through. But we certainly weren’t up for a big day so we decided to go for a
[ad#Adsense Banner] We woke in La Grave to the impressive Meije towering above us, it was great to see it from our hotel bed. But alas the word was that La Grave was skied out and bumps everywhere – we had overheard in the bar the night before that the guided groups were going to
After our fantastic experience touring in the powder above Dormillouse Jerome spoke to some locals who suggested that the conditions were best in the south east, close to the Italian border. The resort of Abries was said to have received 1 metre of powder a few days earlier. So we headed southeast through some amazing
Having farmed much of the pow in the Chamonix area, word came through that the south, and also the areas near the border of Italy had had further snowfalls. Fortunately Jerome hails from the South of France, and that area of the Alps is very familiar to him, so he put together a great road
