For anyone who has skied with Breezy you may wonder why she has booked on an off-piste skiing course. There is always new things to learn and old bad habits to break. Alison Culshaw runs an amazing course “Ski Performance … Read on…
This week in the chalet we have had a family of 5 and 4 people on one of Alison Culshaw‘s off piste and touring programmes. The guys on the course were raving about the instruction and the guiding they got … Read on…
Just had an amazing ski week with repeat clients who have been coming out year on year since the doors opened 16 years ago. You could be deceived that the week was all about the food from the pictures but … Read on…
The chalet has been busy with guests the last couple of weeks who have enjoyed very varied weather and plenty of fresh snow. We have had climbers, skiers and snowboarders through and when the weather has been favourable enough the … Read on…
We ski toured up in the snow through the trees in the afternoon and stayed at the refuge. After a hearty meal and a sleep we headed up the hill again for about half an hour to ski fresh powder down past the hut and on down through the trees in sunshine. Read on…
February has been lots of weather and lots of powder snow in Chamonix. Thankfully the rain snow limit has been mostly just above the driveway of the chalet so not much snow clearing. When the sun has shone the camera … Read on…
There must have been a couple of hundred folk skinning up the Col de Crochue. Some with guides and some in groups. The sun shone and the snow was in great condition. Once at the top of the Col there … Read on…
A week of unstable weather finally rewarded us with fresh powder days at Domaine de Balme. The sun came out and cold temperatures on Thursday gave plenty of scope for fresh tracking all day. On Friday the road to Le … Read on…
The sun shone so we headed out of the valley with ski touring kit. Les Contamines was the destination as it is covered on our MBU Ski Pass this winter. Headed off the top ridge with friends over to the … Read on…
Managed to get over to Champery on our day off from the chalet to ski with Derbyshire friends Dave and Helen. As they had been there 3 weeks we had our own personal guides so were fresh tracking powder shots … Read on…
