Couloir Barbey

After a superb break from skiing, I did a couple of couloirs from the Argentiere Basin in the Chamonix valley with Chris and Pat. We did the Couloir Chevalier, which we thought would be a warm up to the Barbey on the Swiss side of the Aiguille d’Argentiere. It turned out to be the steeper [...]

Spring Time in the Alps

Hot! It’s hot! And beautiful. What a fine spring it is in these Alps. The weather is gorgeous, the flowers are coming out, and the grass is a color green that one sees only in the Spring. We drove an hour south into the Val d’Aoste last week, with the pretense of skiing on the [...]