And again there was a queue for the lift and the conditions up the valley weren’t ideal so this time I decided we’d try the slopes under the Hotel Weishorn near Saint-Luc. This worked really well, we didn’t see another person all day and had a great tour around the alpages and farms.

Along the way I logged a visit to another geocache, GCJYJG, this one was just at the point on the hill where the snow conditions were getting problematic and the chances of being caught in a slide were increasing. Another few hundred metres up and I’d have probably not bothered for safety reasons. Nearby proved a good location for a picnic and some photo’s so it was perfect.

We took a different route down, partly for variety and partly to see if we could avoid some of the ice we’d encountered on the way up. That wasn’t entirely successful and the path was difficult in places due to the ice but not enough ice for crampons or snow for snowshoes really.

Some amazing views over the valley and I’ll have to examine them to get an idea for a route tomorrow.

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.

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