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Tour du Ciel, day 4, 4th May 2008
SnowSlider | May 7th 2008 by Ian Spare
Here we are, day four at a fairly leisurely 0500 start and hitting the hill at 0615. The night was spent in the Tracuit Hut which at 3270m is fairly high, the hut was pretty busy probably due to such superb conditions. So far the tour has just been e read more
Tour du Ciel, day 3, 3rd May 2008
SnowSlider | May 7th 2008 by Ian Spare
This was going to be a long day, the aim was to travel to the Cabane de Tracuit which looks a pretty long way on the map. Another early start at 0400hr and we’re away from the the cabane du Mountet a little after 0430hrs lighting the way by hea read more
Tour du Ciel, day 2, 2nd May 2008
SnowSlider | May 6th 2008 by Ian Spare
Next morning saw us leaving the hut a little after 0500 hrs in the dark skiing down lighting the way with our head torches with the occasional sparks from the skier in front if they caught a rock with their edges. We skied back along a little way whe read more
It ain’t over….
SnowSlider | April 6th 2008 by Ian Spare
Actually it is over, at least sort of. Today was the last day the lifts are running in the Val d’Anniviers, it’s tied to Easter and this year Easter is earliest it’s been since 1913 and it’s not going to be this early until 22 read more
Another dam way
SnowSlider | April 1st 2008 by Ian Spare
David and Chris had planned to do the Bishorn today/tomorrow but the forecast for tomorrow is poor so David suggested the Val Rechy instead, by the time we’d got to the top of the Lona lift I’d persuaded him to try the Lona instead. My pl read more
Zinal Apartments
SnowSlider | April 1st 2008 by Ian Spare
We’ve long considered developing the land in front of the chalet here in Zinal and we’ve finally set in motion a plan to do that. It’s still in a planning phase currently but we’ve launched a separate website for this and we&# read more
Easter Weekend in the Anniviers
SnowSlider | March 23rd 2008 by Ian Spare
We got back from our Wild High Level Route on Friday afternoon (photo’s to follow) and it was pretty wild weather travelling from Sierre back to Zinal on the bus, the bus itself was just fine but a number of tourists had failed to make it up th read more
Zinal, sun and powder
SnowSlider | March 14th 2008 by Ian Spare
Another light snow fall over night and some more good ski conditions, towards the mid afternoon he snow did start to get heavier but was still pretty good. Skiing with Neil (above), Claire and Scott and then later joined by David we skied around most read more
Zinal and more powder
SnowSlider | March 13th 2008 by Ian Spare
We had a pretty good snowfall last night so we rode the first lift this morning to enjoy the new snow. Conditions were really quite excellent, although the light was slightly poor at first it quickly improved and we got some great skiing. This is a c read more
Zinal, La Vie, La Poudreuse
SnowSlider | March 11th 2008 by Ian Spare
Towards the end of last week the forecasts started to indicate some major snowfall, there’s been a couple of small falls and some pretty good skiing but today was the first day we really started to see the amounts of snow that had been forecast read more
Blown away in Zinal
SnowSlider | March 10th 2008 by Ian Spare
Meeting up with David, Neil and Claire on the first lift this morning we’d plans to head over to Grimentz and climb into the Pas de Lona area from where we’d a couple of options. But, the top lift at Zinal wasn’t running due to high read more
oops, no camera
SnowSlider | March 9th 2008 by Ian Spare
It was actually a nice day for photo’s and unusually I forget to take a camera, these are taken on the phone on my camera and they’re not so bad really. I met up with Neil and Claire in Zinal this morning and we skied a while over there b read more
Head in the clouds
SnowSlider | March 8th 2008 by Ian Spare
There’s an amount of snow forecast over the next few days, it was forecast to start last night and it was good to see the first instalment arrived as scheduled with a few cm of snow overnight. The cloud though dropped into the valley and has ju read more
Woke up this morning…
SnowSlider | March 5th 2008 by Ian Spare
….. and it had snowed! It was forecast and it was snowing yesterday but it seemed to have stopped. Down in the village we had 10cm maybe of snow which looked enough for some nice skiing but at the top I found a bit more, up to 30cm in places wh read more
old photo’s
SnowSlider | February 22nd 2008 by Ian Spare
I skied with Mike a couple of weeks back (Dam powder) and he took some photo’s which I like : Just click on them to get the larger versions. read more
Pas de Lona
SnowSlider | February 16th 2008 by Ian Spare
I’ve stood on the other side of the valley a couple of times recently and wondered about doing this route, it’s pretty short but I’ve not been over the Basset de Lona before, I’ve been over by Lac Lona, the Diablon and Sassini read more
Cabane du Petit Mountet
SnowSlider | February 9th 2008 by Ian Spare
I was going to skin up to the Sorebois but when I got to the end of the village the signs reminded me that the Cabane du Petit Mountet was open so I decided to go there instead. It’s a gradual climb up to the cabane and first you need to cross read more
Dam powder
SnowSlider | February 7th 2008 by Ian Spare
After the snow earlier in the week and some poor visibility over the last few days this was the great chance to get a powder run down to the Moiry barrage. I’d expected to meet Mike on the first lift but I think he must have snuck onto one runn read more
Zinal Snow Conditions
SnowSlider | February 6th 2008 by Ian Spare
I’ve not been taking too many photographs recently but conditions have been pretty good. At the end of last week, some days after the last snow, we were still finding good snow pretty much all over the mountain. There was a fair amount of snow read more
dam run
SnowSlider | January 27th 2008 by Ian Spare
Today really seems to mark the run-up to peak season, there was a fair queue on the lift in Zinal when I met David and some of his friends. We’d talked about going to Grimentz and he’d suggested a run down the Chamois but I thought it was read more
Zinal and few hundred more meters
SnowSlider | January 26th 2008 by Ian Spare
After enjoying skinning up last week I did the same today, starting on the same position from the bottom of the piste Aigle but taking a different route through the trees rather than the piste. On the way up the snow varied a bit, icy at the bottom a read more
cabane des Becs de Bosson
SnowSlider | January 20th 2008 by Ian Spare
Basically just a lunch trip up to the cabane des Becs des Bosson, it’s near Grimentz and reached by a short climb and traverse around the Becs des Bosson. The guardienne has a neat memory trick, not only recognising me but recalling where IR read more
Zinal the slow way
SnowSlider | January 19th 2008 by Ian Spare
It’s a regular pastime around here to skin up to the Sorebois but until today something I’d not done, I decided it might make a change to give it a try. In general I’m not a huge fan of people skinning up the piste as it can be a bi read more
powder day in Zinal
SnowSlider | January 14th 2008 by Ian Spare
It snowed most of Saturday and a little overnight so conditions promised to be fairly epic for Sunday. First thing some areas weren’t open, the descent to the village and the Durand drag lift most notably but there was still plenty of terrain t read more
cannons on overdrive
SnowSlider | January 3rd 2008 by Ian Spare
Snow Cannons on the Piste de l’Aigle working overtime, it’s going to take some force to break that up! read more
Dam easy
SnowSlider | December 30th 2007 by Ian Spare
I’d rather forgot that it was going to snow last night, we’d been out at the GuggAnniv’Band up the valley which was loud and a bit madcap. I can’t really describe the music well but you can get a clip here: music clip. We wer read more
Raquettes in Zinal
SnowSlider | December 27th 2007 by Ian Spare
Today was much improved on yesterday in terms of weather, yesterday was really flat light and along with an increase in numbers on the piste it wasn’t really the best ski day. After a late start this morning we decided on the spur of the moment read more
Zinal, Christmas Eve
SnowSlider | December 24th 2007 by Ian Spare
There was some pretty nice light around midday from the top of the Sorebois highlighting the partly frozen Lac de Moiry, there’s been some fairly major wind transport on the snow at the top and it’s a bit bit bare and rocky. It’s st read more
Val D’Anniviers Useful Information
SnowSlider | December 21st 2007 by Ian Spare
For anyone like me that was searching for an online copy of the ski bus timetable for this season I have scanned a copy as an image or JPEG and you can find it here : http://snowslider.net/anniviers-ski-bus/ It’s also a menu item along the top read more
plan B - Zinal
SnowSlider | December 9th 2007 by Ian Spare
I’d actually intended to go round to Grimentz today but first thing this morning it was snowing really heavily and I didn’t want to drive there, drive back and have to keep digging the car out. On a scale of one to ten I’d have to s read more
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