http://swissmountainleader.com/wp A Mountain Leader in Switzerland Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:51:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2012/02/04/leysin-area-skiing-and-dogs/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2012/02/04/leysin-area-skiing-and-dogs/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:49:28 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/?p=2126 The predicted cold weather has arrived here in Leysin and we’ve had temperatures down to -21ºC in the village. There’s been a little wind as well so it’s moving the snow around that’s fallen during the week, that wasn’t a lot of snow but the wind is picking enough up to build some slabs on [...]

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]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/12/23/leysin-skiing/feed/ 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/11/29/glacier-3000-3/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/11/29/glacier-3000-3/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:01:42 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/?p=2021 There’s still good skiing up on the glacier, it’s very limited but the preparation is very good so it’s worth a few hours. There’s a dog handler and his team up on the glacier and it’s great to see the dogs having a run. We’re hoping to run trips combining snowshoeing and dog sledge rides [...]

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]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/11/11/glacier-3000/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/08/18/val-danniviers-facebook-group-2/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/08/18/val-danniviers-facebook-group-2/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:33:16 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/?p=1882 It seems like an age ago but I setup a Facebook Group for people with connections to the Val D’Anniviers. The group is one of the “old format” ones in Facebook which seems to mean it’s not great on mobile amongst other things. If the group shows any sign of life they’ll upgrade it. So [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/08/18/val-danniviers-facebook-group-2/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/01/16/european-avalanche-school-la-grave/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/01/16/european-avalanche-school-la-grave/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:39:47 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=1250 I just spent the week in La Grave, with a detour on the way to ski a day at Les Deux Alpes, doing the Professional Course of the European Avalanche School (EAS). In fact this is the only course run by EAS and it takes place each year, primarily it’s part of the induction course [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2011/01/16/european-avalanche-school-la-grave/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/03/17/zinal-18/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/03/17/zinal-18/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:32:14 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=881 There’s not been a huge amount of fresh snow in Zinal for little while so it’s all pretty tracked but there’s still some good skiing as always. I’d met up with David and we skied in the freeride area a little before heading to Grimentz via a nice couloir pitch. Over in Grimentz the steeper [...]

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