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/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/2010/09/22/hotel-weisshorn-2/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/09/22/hotel-weisshorn-2/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:33:10 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=1164 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 [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/09/22/hotel-weisshorn-2/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/04/06/gillou-saint-luc-val-danniviers/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/04/06/gillou-saint-luc-val-danniviers/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:07:08 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=898 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 [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2010/04/06/gillou-saint-luc-val-danniviers/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/09/24/saint-luc-3/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/09/24/saint-luc-3/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:03:46 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=707 Lunch and a short stroll around Saint-Luc, it’s great, great weather at the moment and the autumn colours are really beginning to show. We took a path down I’ve not been on in summer and it was really excellent, I’d always though that particular path was great in the winter and spring on snowshoes as [...]

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]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/04/16/coltsfoot-tussilago-farfara/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/04/11/col-de-vijiva/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/04/11/col-de-vijiva/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:01:17 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=625 I’ve done variants of this before on skis, on foot and on snowshoes. Today when conditions were fairly unfavourable in terms of avalanche risk I picked this route as I could find a fairly low risk path through the terrain, even so, we hit our turn around time before we reached the height I might [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/04/11/col-de-vijiva/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/03/04/double-damn/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/03/04/double-damn/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:10:58 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=605 After skiing to the barrage near Zinal yesterday today we skied to the Illsee barrage near Saint-Luc. I’ve wanted to ski this for a while, I’ve skied the north face of the Bella Tolla before but not descended so far or skied into the Illsee. It’s a good line, a descent, a climb, another descent [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/03/04/double-damn/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/01/10/saint-luc-2/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/01/10/saint-luc-2/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:41:57 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=523 A few photo’s from today at Saint-Luc. This view from Saint-Luc must be one of the most dramatic in the Alps with so many 4000m peaks, the Matterhorn just to the right of centre there.  

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2009/01/10/saint-luc-2/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2008/12/30/bella-vouarda-saint-luc/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2008/12/30/bella-vouarda-saint-luc/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:14:20 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/?p=508 I’ve skied up in this area as a ski tour but found the descent slightly disappointing so as it’s great high mountain scenery I thought it would make a perfect snow shoe trip. The route starts off from Saint-Luc and to save some time we rode the funicular up to Tignousa (2178m) and walked in [...]

]]> http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2008/12/30/bella-vouarda-saint-luc/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2008/02/18/bella-tolla-north-face-and-schwarzhorn/ http://swissmountainleader.com/wp/2008/02/18/bella-tolla-north-face-and-schwarzhorn/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:37 +0000 SwissMountainLeader http://snowslider.net/2008/02/18/bella-tolla-north-face-and-schwarzhorn/ It’s not snowed for a while now and it’s been peak holiday time so all the off-piste is totally tracked out, but it’s been cold and if you’re prepared to put some climbing in then there’s still some great snow to be found. I rode the lifts to the Bella Tolla and then climbed the [...]

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