Avalanche Course
We had a fun day in the snow Saturday. A snow pit analysis on the slopes of Mt.Gele revealed lots of facets under the Sahara sand from the foehn event before this last snow fall. We skied some powder lines on soft grass, and even dipped into the lovely Vallon D’Arbi. As the sun set, [...]
Powder Time
The Foehn stopped and it dumped. How lucky we were. The winds turn out of the North West and gave us a good dose of the White Gold. It snowed 35 then 20 overnight. The north slopes in Lac des Vaux ski real nice with little damage to the p-tex. Skied down the initial wall [...]
Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula
Pen Pough and his production company Between the Eyes is back to film Xavier De Le Rue and Jeremy Jones riding with the penguins- this time on the Antarctica Peninsula, for Relentless. We had a fun day above Ushuaia today, riding a little couloir to shake out the wrinkles of the 14 hour plane ride.
International Snow Science Workshop- Davos
I have just returned from the 2009 ISSW in Davos, filling my head with all sorts of theory and some excellent practical information on avalanche forecasting. This forum is held every year, bringing experts in the field of snow science together to talk about snow and avalanches and show the results of the experiments they [...]
New Snow Over Verbier
Temperatures dropped this morning. It was +3 at dawn, with a light dusting of snow on the surrounding peaks.
Couloirs to Bars Ski Clinic
We are into day 5 of the 6 day, Couloirs to Bars Ski Clinic, and it has again turned out to be another lively one. Maryana is back, showing off her Ukrainian style, cruising down one sweet couloir after another. We have skied Italian Corn snow, dug deep snow pits in search of faceted snow [...]
Winter Returns
Just when I was getting all warm to the spring snow scene, blammo! in comes winter! Off the back of Mt.Gele yesterday I measured 65cm of fresh snow! The face shots were a bit too much. I tried to turn differently to avoid the shock, but to no avail. I’m sure you feel sorry for [...]
Spring in the Alps
At last, we have touched the first spring snow of the season. Temperatures were quite high these past few days. The snow on northern aspects is moist from 2200 meters down. There is a solid crust from 2800 meters down on which to ski supreme corn snow. I just returned from another very memorable safari, [...]
Little Resorts That Rock
I took no pictures to record yesterday’s ever changing light. But imagine a world of snow encrusted trees, as can happen in the North-East woods of Vermont, U.S.A. Then dashes of light, brightening your world of wind and snow outside of Gortex. Then the fog!!! thickening intensively, even so very thick in the middle of [...]
Finding powder
The Foehn raged while I was away at ISPO, leaving, in many places around Verbier, ravaged and faceted snow. During the long period of clear weather in January, facets developed deep in the snow pack, even to the ground. Now the foehn has blown away that wonderful powder of last week, leaving a Lunar landscape. [...]
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