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Gran Paradiso
- Date:
- 07.05.2019
- Characteristic:
- Randonnée/Telemark
- Duration:
- 8:24h
- Distance:
- 25.4km
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 >>>
Punta de la Pierre
- Date:
- 02.02.2015
- Characteristic:
- Randonnée/Telemark
- Duration:
- 5:00h
Da var det min siste hel dag på ferie i Chamonix og for å utnytte den ble jeg med på en tur med Rob og tre andre som hadde meldt seg på turen – John, James og Adam. Jeg hadde uansett ikke noen turkompiser å dra på tur med og var ikke kjent med turmuligheter i området, så å være med på en guidede dagstur virket som en naturlig og enkel løsning. Nok en gang var det snøvær i Chamonix men det så ut til å bli mye finere vær på andre siden av den Mont Blanc tunnelen i Aostadalen. Skredfaren var en 3-er der i dag mens det var fortsatt på nivå 4 i Chamonix.
Planen var derfor å gå opp Pointe de la Pierre fra ei liten bygd som heter Ozein, på ca. 1400m. Turen går mye i slakt terreng på nord/nordvestsiden av fjellet, så det skulle være et trygt valg med god tørrsnø her. Det >>>
Gran Paradiso North Face
- Date:
- 18.08.2014
- Characteristic:
- Alpine trip
Summer in Norway has been superb and I never intended to travel abroad to indulge in mountain trips at all this year. It was only after some more recent climbing and scrambling-style trips that I suddenly realised how much I missed alpine-style trips and ended up dreaming of heading to some higher mountains again. Since I was feeling a bit rusty on climbing and ropework in general and was lacking friends to go to the Alps on a semi-spontaneous trip with, the obvious solution seemed to be to join a guided course. I was not entirely convinced it would be worth it since I had only heard talk about the weather being awful in the Alps all summer, but in the end I decided to take the chance anyway, I couldn’t imagine it would be worse than being out during a mild winter spell in Scotland could >>>
