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Aiguille de Bionnassay

Datum:
20.07.2021
Tourcharakter:
Hochtour
Tourlänge:
6:25h
Entfernung:
11,7km

The Aiguille de Bionnassay is an elegant peak lying at the western end of the Mont Blanc massif, and like the Lyskamm traverse is known for its narrow snow ridges – in particular the “standard” route up the east ridge, accessed from the Gonella hut on the Italian side of the mountain. Since most snowy routes were in excellent condition this summer it seemed like a good choice to finish off my month in the Alps, so we headed there after spending a night in Chamonix after coming back from the Ecrins. We had a somewhat delayed start because of long queues to get through the Mont Blanc tunnel into Courmayeaur, so by the time we had made it up the Val Veny road as far as we could get to La Visaille it was around midday and we still had at least 5 hours of walking ahead of us to get to the >>>

Grandes Jorasses

Datum:
27.07.2020
Tourcharakter:
Alpinklettern
Tourlänge:
9:48h
Entfernung:
8,3km

Following the brilliant first week of climbing, we had two easy days down in the valley back in Evolene which I mainly used for eating, drinking and sleeping plenty while also making plans for the second week. I’d earlier hoped that the Taschhorn-Dom traverse could be an option, but after having found out from the Swiss AlpineClub website that the Mischabel bivouac hut was closed for the season, it was obvious that this idea was not realistic – at least not this summer unfortunately. Having spent the week over in the Zermatt and Saas valleys, which I felt pretty familiar with now, I thought it would be quite nice to have a change of scenery and climb some other 4000ers in other regions of the Alps I hadn’t spent much time in. I was also quite keen to climb a “cool” mountain and so >>>

Dôme & Aiguille de Rochefort

Datum:
18.07.2019
Tourcharakter:
Alpinklettern
Tourlänge:
10:05h
Entfernung:
8,6km

After coming back to Evolene from Saas Almagell there was a bit of a swap with guides so for the remainder of the 10 days I was going to be climbing again with Tim Neill whom I’d had a great week with in 2018. First on the plan was to make a new attempt to do the Rochefort traverse over Aiguilles de Rochefort and Dome de Rochefort – and fortunately there were beds available at the Torino hut for the following night when we wanted to get up there. The drive from Evolene to Courmayeaur took a couple of hours via the Grand St. Bernard pass and driving around through Aosta and finally northward to Courmayeur where we did a quick shopping trip at a local supermarket. Having gotten used to grocery shopping at Norwegian and Swiss prices, Italy seemed super cheap! We then hopped onto the Skyway >>>

Petit Flambeau

Datum:
06.05.2019
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark

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.

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La Tour Ronde

Datum:
21.05.2018
Tourcharakter:
Hochtour
Tourlänge:
5:00h

De siste to dagene på tur i Alpene skulle opprinnelig blitt tilbrakt på en bestigning av Dom, det høyeste fjell som ligger helt i Sveits. Pga for mye snø under Domhytta ble planen byttet ut med en bestigning av Dufourspitze i stedet, men til slutt ble det Plan C siden værmeldinga for denne delen av Alpene var langt dårligere enn for Chamonixområdet. Så den nye planen var å sove i Chamonix, ta heisen opp til Helbronnerstasjonen på den italienske siden av Mont Blanc og så finne på noe i området rundt Torinohytta. Etter flere netter med søvnmangel gledet jeg meg til å sove lenge (endelig?) etter å ha kommet tilbake fra Saas Fee og forhåpentligvis føler meg i bedre form på siste turen. Rob hentet meg rundt kl.8 og vi kjørte til Courmayeur via Mont Blanc-tunnelen. Det tok ikke >>>

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Dent du Geant

Datum:
15.08.2017
Tourcharakter:
Klettern
Tourlänge:
7:15h

It’s name pretty much gives the game away. The Dent du Geant/Giant’s Tooth/Dente del Gigante according to one guidebook ”…has bags of exposure and has one of the best and pointiest summits in the Alps”. Definitely a great selling point. Sami had originally suggested climbing this at the weekend, but our trip over to the Torino hut got somewhat postponed because of the dump of new snow at the end of the previous week. But finally we were making our way up to the Torino hut after driving a few hours from Champex-Lac to Courmayeur and I was feeling rather psyched up for the following day’s objective. We arrived in Courmayeur with reasonably good time to catch the Helbronner lift before the last departure and it was around 5pm by the time we’d been ferried all the way up to the Helbronner >>>

Aiguille d'Orny

Datum:
13.08.2017
Tourcharakter:
Klettern
Tourlänge:
6:00h

After a partly wet Friday which we used to do yet another via ferrata at Saillon (named Via Farinetta, TD+), Saturday finally brought good weather and it appeared that the weather would remain good until at least Tuesday or Wednesday. However the constant downpours of rain at valley-level had also produced massive dumps of new snow from around 3000m, so even though the good weather was back, the high mountain ridges weren’t necessarily in condition. Fortunately we didn’t have any solid objectives for these 2 weeks so we were essentially free to make plans according to weather and conditions. Aiguille d’Orny became the new objective for Sunday so we did a few single pitch 5a/5b climbs at Dorenaz early on Saturday morning before driving up to Champex-Lac to get the Breya chairlift at 2188m >>>

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Aiguillette des Posettes x 2

Datum:
19.03.2016
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark
Tourlänge:
3:30h

Siste dagen på skiferie og det ble to runder opp/ned randonneeløypa på Aiguillette des Posettes fra Le Tour. Fin slusjsnø, men det var altfor varmt og jeg ble solbrent! Shorts og singlet opp og ned :D

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Vallee Blanche + Glacier des Periades

Datum:
18.03.2016
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark

Ble med på en gruppetur arrangert av Rob Jarvis, en guide jeg har vært på tur med før i Chamonixområdet. Vi traff Emma og Richard på Aiguille du Midi-heisen kl.8 denne fredagen og planen var å kjøre ned Vallee Blanche mot den italienske siden for å finne god snø. Var ikke den koseligste tur opp i heisen sammen med tusenvis av andre skikjørere og turister, altså trangt og lite plass for å bevege seg. Det var godt å komme seg ut i den friskere og tynnere luft på den øverste stasjonen på over 3800m. Kjente litt på høyden da vi tok på sele og sånt. Men fint, fint vær og ganske mildt, bare -8 her oppe. Var litt annerledes å gå ned ryggen fra Aiguille du Midi nå på vinterstid. Hele ryggen hadde blitt veldig 'pedestrianised' med tau for folk å ta tak i, det var som å gå >>>

Col du Passon

Datum:
15.03.2016
Tourcharakter:
Randonnée/Telemark

Med det fine været som var meldt for i dag, ble noen av de populære skiturene i området (med mest mulig nedkjøring i nordvendte sider) foreslått som evt. turmål. Owen mente turen til Breche Puiseux eller Col du Passon kunne vært aktuelle, men til slutt bestemte vi oss for den kortere av de to. Turen til Col du Passon startet med heis fra parkeringsplassen på Grand Montets opp til Aiguilles des Grands Montets på nesten 3300moh. Ikke akkurat en måte jeg er vant med å starte en skitur på, men men... Var litt kjøligere da vi kom opp og gikk ned trappa, men sola skinte godt og det ble fort varmt å kjøre ned den humpete bakken mot Argentiere-breen. Litt annerledes sammenlignet med pudderopplevelsen dagen før. Var litt stiv i beina uten noe oppvarming og i tillegg kjørte vi med litt >>>

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