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Blog site for skiing and alpine activities in Switzerland, particularly around Zinal and the Val d'Anniviers. The author is an experienced skier and spends his time ski touring, ski mountaineering and exploring the backcountry around the Valais in Sw

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• Praz Cornet - Col des Mosses

  Posted on Sunday December 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 in col des mosses, hiking, les mosses, raquettes, snowshoes

  We’ve just bought ourselves some new snowshoes, we both have new pairs of Inook raquettes, the Odyssey for me and the Odalys for Julie basically the mens/womens versions of the same raquette. To...

• Snowshoeing around Zinal

  Posted on Thursday November 15th, 2007 at 09:16 in hiking, raquettes, ski zinal, snowshoes, val d'anniviers, zinal

  With the recent snow falls today was the one of first days we’ve seen much sun in Zinal for a few days so I took the chance to get out on some snowshoes around the valley. I think I’m prob...

• Gemmipass - Leukerbad -> Adelboden

  Posted on Tuesday September 4th, 2007 at 09:24 in adelboden, gemmipass, gps track file, hiking, leukerbad, summer

  click on photograph for larger version This is the second day of my tour of the Gemmipass area, I’d stayed the night in Leukerbad and took the lift up again the next morning. Leukerbad has a fai...

• Gemmipass - Kandersteg -> Leukerbad

  Posted on Monday September 3rd, 2007 at 03:35 in gemmipass, gps track file, hiking, kandersteg, leukerbad

  The Gemmipass is a trade route between the Valais and Bern cantons dating back to the early 1700’s when the mule track was cut into the rock faces above Leukerbad. The pass itself is pretty high...

• Cabane de Moiry

  Posted on Sunday August 26th, 2007 at 12:05 in cabane de moiry, gps track file, grimentz, hiking, moiry

  click on photograph for larger version This is a pretty short walk up from the Lac de Moiry above Grimentz and only the second time I’ve been up here in the summer. It’s around a 400m clim...

• Zweisimmen

  Posted on Sunday August 19th, 2007 at 12:14 in gstaad, hiking, schrönreid, shcronreid, zweisimmen

  click on photo’ to enlarge Originally I’d planned to go to climb the Giferspitz but that’s it in the centre of the above photo’ with the top covered in cloud. So we decided to ...

• Kaiseregg - Ritxlialp Traverse

  Posted on Thursday August 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 in gps track file, hiking, kaiseregg, schwarzsee, summer

  click on photograph for larger version I wanted to make this route for a little while. It starts off at Schwarzsee a small village with a ski station that I’ve skied and hiked around before. Kai...

• Breithorn (4164m), Zermatt

  Posted on Sunday July 29th, 2007 at 11:06 in breithorn, gps track file, hiking, summer, zermatt

  click on photograph for larger version The Breithorn is reckoned to be one of the easiest 4000m peaks in the Alpes mostly due to the fact that the Klein Matterhorn lift takes you all the way to 3870m ...

• Moiry - Col de Torrent - Sasseneire

  Posted on Saturday July 14th, 2007 at 15:08 in col de torrent, gps track file, grimentz, hiking, moiry, sasseneire, summer, val d anniviers, zinal

  click on photograph for larger version This was the first time I’ve been into this area in the summer, I’ve skied there in the winter making descents to the barrage and ski touring in the...

• Grindelwald

  Posted on Monday July 2nd, 2007 at 09:54 in blau gletscherli, gps track file, grindelwald, grindelwald first, grosse scheideeg, hike, hiking, summer, swiss, switzerland, walk, walking

  click on photograph for larger version I took the gondola from Grindelwald village at 1000m up to First at 2168m. My plan was to walk to Grosse Scheidegg on the north of the Schwarzhorn via Hagelseeli...