Archive February 2011
Les Marécottes – Wonderful spring skiing in one of Switzerland’s hidden gems
Between Chamonix and Martigny you will find a small picturesque village called Les Marecottes with its own little ski resort. Its an awesome place to go on powder days and with most of the skiing facing the sun its serves up with great spring skiing on warm days. Yesterday was a warm (for being winter) […]
Les Droites – Ginat – Motorway up one of Chamonix’s classic north faces
Yesterday I did the Ginat on Les Droites with good friend and mountain guide Jimmy Halvardsson. It was a great day out on this 1200 m big ice and rock face. Over a month of good and stable weather has turned the route in to a must do at the moment with super great conditions […]
Brèche Est du Domino – Petit Viking – A beautiful ascent of the “impossible” climb
This Wednesday I went up climbing a beautiful goulotte called Petite Viking with my friend Maxime Turgeon. We wanted to do a climb that’s fast and convenient that doesn’t attract too much people. In the end we chose to go up the Argentière basin to do this classic ice and mixed climb on Brèche Est […]
Super Balmette
Sunny warm weather and high pressure usually means great climbing down the valley. This Tuesday we enjoyed some fun climbing in shorts and t-shirt with a view over Valle d’Arve…
Film from one of those special days last year…
Here is a small edit by Bjarne Sahlen from my head cam when I had one of those special days in the beginning of April last year. The run is a probable first descent of the East couloir of Grand gendarme d’Envers du Plan in the Envers des Aiguilles in Chamonix. For more cool movies […]
Who says there is no powder in Chamonix?
The subject in Cham for the last few weeks has been the snow (or lack there of), but man, the good snow is always there – you will just have to find it! 😉 Felix Hentz have done this little edit from one of our adventures last week! Good work my friend!
Mont Blanc – The wild way – How to walk away a cold and get powder skiing in the sunset
I have, ever since I came to Chamonix the first time, wanted to climb (and of course ski) Mt Blanc early season when you get to be by your self, when there are no tracks and you have to do all the work your self. In a sense – I wanted to climb Mt Blanc when its only me and a friend on the mountain – when the most popular mountain in Europe would just be like any other mountain in the world.
