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/2010/03/06/4-more-days-in-the-jura/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/03/06/4-more-days-in-the-jura/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:16:20 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=870 Conscious that snow would be melting on the lowest sections I took 4 days this week to complete the Grande Traversée du Jura (GTJ) that I’d started back in January, along the way I’ve also completed the Grande Traversée Neuchâteloise (GTN)  and the Traversée du Jura Suisse (TJS). Although the remaining sections are generally taken [...]

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]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/02/28/3-days-in-the-jura/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/02/11/metabief-france/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/02/11/metabief-france/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:06:46 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=815 I parked the car around at Les Hôpitaux-Vieux and nearly stayed in it. It had been cold at home but there seemed the chance of some sun, by the time I’d crossed the border into France and got to Les Hôpitaux-Vieux that chance of sun had vanished and it was snowing heavily and very cold. [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/02/11/metabief-france/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/01/30/jura-traverse-2/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/01/30/jura-traverse-2/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:17:04 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=800 After leaving the refuge around 0800 I got an hour or so of good skiing done covering some distance and enjoying the early morning light. It was pretty cold but ideal for the skis so they ran quickly without too much work. Somewhere between two farms I picked up a companion though, a dog started [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/01/30/jura-traverse-2/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/01/29/jura-traverse-1/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/01/29/jura-traverse-1/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:43:52 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=797 The Jura are a range of mountains separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers along the French-Swiss border. Despite our valley house being just below the Jura in the years we’ve been here I’ve never much explored the Jura instead going to the alps. But last summer I was climbing a lot in the Jura with [...]

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