American clients in the chalet skied at Les Grands Montets and then got the last telecabine up the Aiguille du Midi in the afternoon for some amazing scenes. The weather was just changing and the sun low as they took … Read on…
The Compagnie du Mont Blanc have just announced early opening of the Chamonix Ski slopes. This weekend, for a couple of days, on November, Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th, Grands Montets and Les Houches will have partial opening after the recent … Read on…
Received a mail from Mike Sweeney this morning who let us know about the forecast for the weekend. Snow in Chamonix 1.5m of the stuff Apparently there is gonna be a couple of nice days then an “active disturbance” crossing over … Read on…
Could be in for a good snow year. “Weather experts say that the Earth could be experiencing the strongest El Niño for more than 60 years.” ~ BBC News Apparently a strong El Niño causes colder, drier winters in Northern … Read on…
End of season ski tour with great friend Sauze and hubby Alun Barrett. Glorious sunshine for the walk in the first day in the Gran Paradiso National Park, followed by much needed Prosecco at the Rifugio Benevelo! Much cooler the … Read on…
Roundup of the last few days. Chamonix has been lucky with snowfall over the last couple of weeks and blessed with sunshine inbetween. Today we are just back from skiing the north facing domain of Grands Montets. The pistes were … Read on…
Fresh tracking all day long. The sun shone and the mountains were covered in powder snow. What better way to spend a day off than putting tracks all over the place. Managed to get to Le Tour as the lift … Read on…
Powder everywhere. Having had over a week of great weather over the Half Term break, the snow has once again landed in Chamonix. This morning we shot off down the valley for the weekly food shop and then scuttled up … Read on…
Off piste better than the pistes at the moment. The pistes at Grands Montets were fairly bullet proof today and did not soften up in the cold air. The off piste, and there is a lot of it, was chalky, … Read on…
Day off Wednesday, so we headed out of teh valley with ski touring kit to head up the Petit Croise Baulet. Beautiful skin up through the woods from the road head above the Jaillet lift to the Col du Jaillet … Read on…
