Winter Storms
With a series of October and November storms and sub-zero temperatures this weekend, winter has arrived in Verbier. We have a good base, 30-90cm deep with solid layers close to the ground. Hurricane force winds blew from the North Saturday, closing the lifts and wreaking havoc on the snow pack. Today was a bit of [...]
The calm before the storm
Swiss Meteo wrote that yesterday was the calm before the storm. So we headed over the ridge to Italy, Aosta, to climb a 13 pitch! rock route. What a gas it was to touch this fine granit so close to the road. We climbed “Mitico Vento”, 6b, 500m above the Val d’Aoste. The forecast is [...]
Cold and clear weather forecast
We are coming upon the second weekend of lift serviced skiing. It really feels like winter now, though we have been climbing warm rock at the Trapiste cliff in Sembrencher. But the cold weather forecast makes me hopeful about the ice climbing to come. Here are a few shots of years past to whet the [...]
Verbier Opens
TeleVerbier has decided to run the FuniSpace for the next 2 weekends. What wonderful skiing this provided us in the little Lac des Vaux and Ruinettes. After the dump of Halloween, the warm Foehn set in for the past week. These warm temperatures and more wet snow at high elevations caked these hills with a [...]
