Rock Climbing near Verbier and Chamonix
Summer is over and I have not published a thing! Too much time to do too many things! The weather is back to summer-time temps, reflecting again the in and out weather in the Alps this season. Most recently, we did a couple of real fine climbs on perfect granite. One, up the Val d’Arpette, [...]
Verbier Rock Climbing
The weather is just starting to resemble summer-time in Verbier. At 1500 meters above sea level, the cold temperatures and clouds tend to linger longer in Verbier in Spring… like two months longer! But the alpine rock is coming quickly into shape now. We climbed Eureka, one of the 5 pitch climbs on the north [...]
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 [...]
Indian Summer Rock Climbing
The rock is hot during this fine Indian Summer. Funny how the weather was so unsettled preceding this Autumnal equinox. Although we have had a few dustings of snow in the high mountains. But pure rock routes at medium elevations are now revealing their intense allure. A few photos of the rock climbing at this [...]
Climbing Les Dentelles de Montmirail
Smack-dab in the middle of the best wine region of Provence, this climber’s paradise gets the thumbs up!
Rock Climbing Above Verbier
We managed to get another climb in before winter rolled in.
