Blåtinden

Datum:

18.05.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

3:22h

Entfernung:

11,0km

© Hannah Vickers Årets første sugeføretur.

Steinskartinden

Datum:

17.05.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

© Hannah Vickers Tåke ble liggende over byen ganske lenge så det ble bare en kort ettermiddagstur til Steinskartinden for å feire nasjonaldagen.

Pollux

Datum:

14.05.2019

Tourcharakter:

Hochtour

© Hannah Vickers After having a chilled out weekend in Chamonix after our trip up the Dufourspitze I’d decided to stay for an extra few days in the Alps to make the most of the sunny weather that had been forecasted for the coming week, though I’d missed the fact that there were strong winds up high of around 70-80kph as well. Anyway since Rob and Simon were off to make an attempt on Mont Blanc, I was going to meet up with guide Thor Husted who was originally from Taos in New Mexico but had been living and working in Chamonix for a good part of the past 2 decades. We had a brief chat about possible objectives - I was at first keen to do an ascent of the Dom though after having taken into consideration the forecasted winds for tuesday morning, this didn’t seem particularly likely. The choice was mainly >>>

Dufourspitze

Datum:

10.05.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

9:00h

Entfernung:

24,0km

© Hannah Vickers I first climbed the Dufourspitze in 2003 as a novice mountaineer with the late female British guide Brede Arkless as the final peak on a 4-day long trip around the Italian side of the Monte Rosa massif. Due to my camera betteries dying at the Gnifetti hut I never did get any photos to remember the spectacular ridge traverse over the Zumsteinspitze and Dufourspitze from the Margherita hut, but had not forgotten that it was a peak to return to and do again! Sixteen years later, and after having a one day break following our ascent of the Gran Paradiso we had a few options for finishing off the week given that the weather in the Zermatt valley was forecasted to be awesome on the Friday. With the exception of the Dom and Bishorn there aren’t actually that many peaks in the Zermatt valley that >>>

Gran Paradiso

Datum:

07.05.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

8:24h

Entfernung:

25,4km

© Hannah Vickers Another year and another trip to the Alps :) This year I was joining Simon (who I didn’t know before arriving in Chamonix) and our guide Rob Jarvis who I’ve skied with several times before, for a 4-day trip into the Bernese Oberland with the hope of ticking off some of the major 4000m peaks in the area. Well, that was the original plan anyway. Unfortunately the first week of May seemed to be offering nothing but unsettled weather north of the Rhone valley with a lot of new snow being dumped in the mountains - and most up in the Bernese Oberland. We’d already heard that there had been some avalanche fatalities in the Bernese Oberland in the week before we’d arrived, so it was a reminder that conditions were still full on winter up high. With the unsettled forecast in mind but potential >>>

Petit Flambeau

Datum:

06.05.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

© Hannah Vickers Half day acclimatisation trip with Rob and Simon from the Skyway lift on the italian side of Mont Blanc. Skied Down the glacier west of the Petit Flambeau but not all the way down to the Glacier du Geant; skinned back up to a saddle on the north ridge of the peak and then walked up the rest of it. Great views and nice to have some light exercise before driving south to the Gran Paradiso.

Tour de Apusiaajik

Datum:

23.04.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

8:09h

Entfernung:

22,9km

Grønland dag 4

Datum:

22.04.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

5:11h

Entfernung:

16,6km

Grønland dag 3

Datum:

21.04.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

6:35h

Entfernung:

14,8km

Apusiaajik dag 2

Datum:

19.04.2019

Tourcharakter:

Randonnée/Telemark

Tourlänge:

5:29h

Entfernung:

15,9km