9/4/08 Great Skiing conditions in the Alps & Highlands....

....And winter continues with avengeance on Ben Nevis

Large late March dumps of snow have left both the mountains of the Alps and Scottish Highlands with a late season ski bonanza. We recently enjoyed some superb powder days and snowy tours in the Grand St Bernard area of the Swiss Alps and around the Chamonix valley in France.

Ski Touring above the Chamonix Valley with Mont Blanc in the background

Teams completing the Haute Route also reported fine snowy conditions.

Closer to home back here in the West Highland there is excellent skiing off the lifts at Nevis Range and even better Steep and deep up on Ben Nevis.
Alison skiing above Zermatt with the East Face of the Matterhorn and Dent Blanche in the background

15/12/06 Zermatt and Saas Fee Ski Conditions....

Early season conditions in these two high Swiss resorts are much better than the UK media coverage of the early alpine winter had led me to believe. Quiet, perfect pistes are open right down to the resorts and the off-piste skiing on the glacier from the Klein Matterhorn (pictured left) provided some excellent early season thigh burning turns!

Folk have also been skiing the Breithorn and Allalinhorn - the 4000m peaks accessed from the tops of these two resorts although we turned around on the latter due to unstable snow conditions on the steep summit slopes.
   

 

 

 

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