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St Luc and Chandolin

28th January 2007

St Luc & Chandolin, Switzerland

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A day over St Luc & Chandolin, the sunny slopes are always a nice place to spend a Sunday. The view above is over the Chandolin part of the domain.

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Grimentz

27th January 2007

Grimentz, Switzerland

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A day in Grimentz to ski with Bandit and her partner Andy. On first sight the snow cover wasn’t very good but the cold temperatures have preserved conditions and there’s some great skiing. The photograph is the start of the Abondance itinerary above Grimentz, it’s a dramatic entrance but nothing like as bad as it looks, in fact it was so good I did it twice.

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St Luc & Chandolin

14th January 2007

Saint Luc / Chandolin, Switzerland

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That’s actually a stitched photograph and quickly stitched at that so the joins are visible. You’re always conscious in the Val d’Anniviers that you’re in amongst some pretty big mountains but from the St Luc you can really see how many 4000m peaks there are.

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just the usual …….. Zinal

13th January 2007

Zinal, Switzerland

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The car park was surprisingly busy this morning and we expected a lot of people on the slopes. As it turned out there was a local Valais ski race, in fact three races, two slaloms and a GS, and that’s where the all the people were.

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