Tag: France
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The Vallée Blanche – Off piste in Chamonix, January 2018
The Vallee Blanche is a classic route in the French alps, a ridge walk from an epic cable car and then onto a 20km slope down through a colossal glacier above Chamonix. Just before we had arrived in Chamonix in late January they had some of the heaviest snowfall for a generation, which sounds great…
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Aiguille Percée
Natural stone arch Aiguille Percée, Tignes, the Alps, France January 2012. An amazing and weird structure coming out of the snow. I have never got round to hiking up to it, something I really want to do though. Taken with Canon S100 point and shoot! Amazing little camera, review coming soon.
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Alpe D’huez
I had a week off last week and went with 40 other people to Alpe D’huez in France for a week of snowboarding. The snow wasn’t the best, but there were blue skies every day to make up for it.
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Val Thorens Snowboarding & Skiing pictures
Here are a selection of snowboarding and skiing pictures from my trip to Val Thorens in France late last year. This is a fun little roof drop just off of our hotel into a very rough landing! Here Jim does his best mid-air ice angel impression. Rob is a man who is not afraid of…
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Back from the Alps
This is just a quick post to say I am back from the French Alps after a weeks snowboarding in mostly white-out conditions! Not the beautiful blue skies I enjoyed this time last year… I did improve my boarding a lot, but I think skiing is still the best way to keep your equipment out…