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 I just wanted to remind people it existed and where it could be found :

Facebook Val d’Anniviers Group

Here’s a photo just for a bit of summer eye candy :

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It’s a pretty easy walk up-to the Hotel Weisshorn doubly so if you ride up on the Saint-Luc funicular which we did. But the autumn colours are always great and the prospect of a good lunch at the hotel make it well worthwhile.

I’d mentioned walking along the bisses at Vercorin the other day and commented that the traditional ones were made of larch, this (below) is an old one in the forest above Saint-Luc. It looks like it’s not in use anymore.

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And again there was a queue for the lift and the conditions up the valley weren’t ideal so this time I decided we’d try the slopes under the Hotel Weishorn near Saint-Luc. This worked really well, we didn’t see another person all day and had a great tour around the alpages and farms.

Along the way I logged a visit to another geocache, GCJYJG, this one was just at the point on the hill where the snow conditions were getting problematic and the chances of being caught in a slide were increasing. Another few hundred metres up and I’d have probably not bothered for safety reasons. Nearby proved a good location for a picnic and some photo’s so it was perfect.

We took a different route down, partly for variety and partly to see if we could avoid some of the ice we’d encountered on the way up. That wasn’t entirely successful and the path was difficult in places due to the ice but not enough ice for crampons or snow for snowshoes really.

Some amazing views over the valley and I’ll have to examine them to get an idea for a route tomorrow.

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