St Luc & Chandolin
14th January 2007
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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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The area was typically deserted, even over Christmas it wasn’t busy and today much quieter. There’s only a couple of chair lifts and some really long drags so I think it would really put off the masses. It’s probably just as well as although there’s some fantastic red runs they’re a little more demanding than you might find in other places and they’re pretty narrow so the usual endless traverses or standing stationary on awkward sections would be pretty awful.
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On the right photograph you can see Crans Montana, it looks like the covers’s improved from a couple of weeks ago but from here it doesn’t look to me that the snow reaches the villages. Crans is above Sierre which is reckoned to be the sunniest place in Switzerland, hence the vineyards, so without plenty of fresh snow it can be a little poor.
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