7th December 2009
The plan was to go snowshoeing around Les Sciernes in the commune Haut Intyamon but there didn’t seem enough snow in the village to make snowshoes really necessary and we thought even another 400 meters up that we’d not see enough snow to make it worth carrying them. So this ended up a winter walk in the early season snow through the forest and up into the higher pastures under Dent de Lys.
2nd December 2009
I was in the UK for a few days on various business including a couple of days up in Keswick in the Lake District, we got out on Catbells and High Spy on a great winters day on Saturday and a I took a few snaps.
Given how extreme and damp the weather’s been in the Lakes we were a bit lucky with the day and it was quite enjoyable, it’s somewhere I’ve not been for many years. After trips this year all over the alpes, the Himalayas, Corsica and Morocco it’s great to get to a few familar places in the UK.
24th September 2009
Lunch and a short stroll around Saint-Luc, it’s great, great weather at the moment and the autumn colours are really beginning to show. We took a path down I’ve not been on in summer and it was really excellent, I’d always though that particular path was great in the winter and spring on snowshoes as well.
5th September 2009
Some photo’s from the trekking phase of the World Challenge trip to Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. Tso Moriri is a lake at 4500m, “Tso” is local dialect for lake. It’s a fair drive in on dirt roads, or just dirt in places, from the “main” road. It’s a fairly well know trekking area with a route over some high passes.
These are pashmina goats, I reckon this is the place to be a goat, as a male goat your outlook isn’t great in most places but around here your coat is as good as the females and you don’t even get sheared, just combed vigorously from time to time. The best stuff comes from the soft bit just under the chin in the spring as the winter coat is coming out. I just had to buy a handful of pashmina scarves as souvenirs.
