Lyskamm traverse

Date:

02.07.2021

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

Duration:

11:28h

Distance:

26.7km

© Hannah Vickers I first came to know about the traverse of Lyskamm during a trip to the Alps in July 2003. The original itinerary for the week had been to climb Castor, Pollux, Lyskamm and the Dufourspitze via the Margherita hut and Zumsteinspitze. In the end the traverse of Lyskamm never happened because the guide I was then climbing with decided it was too windy that day, and we ended up ascending Il Naso (the Nose of Lyskamm) and Vincent Pyramid instead. In hindsight I don’t think I had sufficient alpine mountaineering experience to do the traverse, which is basically a 2km narrow and exposed snow ridge so it was perhaps just a well that we didn’t do it that day. However, since then it has been high on my wishlist of routes to do in the Alps but for some reason or another there has never been the right >>>

Castor

Date:

01.07.2021

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

Duration:

4:07h

Distance:

11.7km

© Hannah Vickers Did a short ascent of Castor en route to the Quintino Sella hut, with the main plan being to traverse Lyskamm the next day. Didn't get fully fog-free views from the top, but still nice to re-visit this peak again after 18 years since my first time!

Piz Bernina - Biancograt

Date:

28.06.2021

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

Duration:

8:10h

Distance:

13.0km

© Hannah Vickers After a week spent in Zermatt doing various acclimatization hikes, I relocated to the Chemin des Etoiles, a chalet in Evolene which has been (and probably will continue to be!) my annual summer holiday base for the last five years. Anyway, it was great to be back in familiar surroundings again, though the chalet was pretty quiet this week with only 4 of us staying there. I’d been keeping an eye on the weather forecast for several 4000m-peaks I had on my wishlist for this summer, but it looked like the best weather would be further east in Switzerland for the start of this week. I’d not been up Piz Bernina, and the Biancograt was one of the routes I’d wanted to do for a number of years, so it seemed like a good option to start with. Did a quick check with Graham, the guide who I’d be >>>

Breithorn x 3

Date:

25.06.2021

Characteristic:

Hike

Duration:

4:34h

Distance:

11.6km

© Hannah Vickers Siste dag med akklimatisering i Zermatt. Kokvarmt på fjellet i dag!

Breithorn x 2

Date:

23.06.2021

© Hannah Vickers Tenkte det hadde vært lurt å utnytte det dyre heisbillettet og godværsvinduet og gå to runder på Breithorn ;-)

Hohtälli og Gornergrat

Date:

22.06.2021

Hörnli hut

Date:

21.06.2021

Kvitbergfjellet x 2

Date:

17.06.2021

Fløya & Nattmålsfjellet

Date:

08.06.2021

Tromsdalstinden

Date:

06.06.2021

Characteristic:

Randonnée/Telemark

Duration:

6:26h

Distance:

19.7km

© Hannah Vickers Nå hadde det blitt en ganske lang periode med fint vær og sommerski og det var kun to uker til jeg skulle dra på sommerferie. Både jeg og Johanna var klar for å avslutte den (rare) 2021-skisesongen for godt og siden verken hun eller jeg hadde lyst på mye bilkjøring endte vi opp med å gjøre en avtale for å gå en tur på Tromsdalstinden fra frontsiden. Dessuten hadde jeg aldri gått denne ruten fra Tromsdalen på ski før, så jeg var mer enn middels gira på å prøve den. Johanna valgte å sykle opp til snøgrensen mens jeg som ikke hadde sykkel måtte gå, så vi ble enige om å møtes ved snøen kl11. Sekken kjentes litt tungt ut med både ski og skisko på den, men jeg synes den 45-minutters innmarsjen var egentlig en veldig fin måte å begynne turen på. Beina var i hvert fall >>>