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.
11th April 2009
I’ve done variants of this before on skis, on foot and on snowshoes. Today when conditions were fairly unfavourable in terms of avalanche risk I picked this route as I could find a fairly low risk path through the terrain, even so, we hit our turn around time before we reached the height I might have liked to attain.
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4th March 2009
After skiing to the barrage near Zinal yesterday today we skied to the Illsee barrage near Saint-Luc. I’ve wanted to ski this for a while, I’ve skied the north face of the Bella Tolla before but not descended so far or skied into the Illsee. It’s a good line, a descent, a climb, another descent and another climb before finishing above Chandolin.
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10th January 2009
A few photo’s from today at Saint-Luc. This view from Saint-Luc must be one of the most dramatic in the Alps with so many 4000m peaks, the Matterhorn just to the right of centre there.
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