Ski Touring in Switzerland – Week #2
Week 2 with ISM was the Ski Grand St. Bernard touring week… suggested as a followup to the Week 1 Ski Touring Skills class.
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Ski Touring in Switzerland – Week #1
We recently spent 2 weeks in Switzerland with ISM – International School of Mountaineering – to learn, and practice, ski touring. Ski touring is “skiing across open country, walking uphill … Read More
“Stranded” in Zermatt, Switzerland
“13,000 Tourists Stranded in a Swiss Ski Resort for 2 Days” “Tourists airlifted out of Swiss ski resort of Zermatt” These are the headlines we woke up to in Zermatt, … Read More
The Italian and French Rivieras
We were actually supposed to stop at Palamos, Spain rather than Sète, France prior to our last stop in Barcelona. But unrest and strikes due to the Catalonian Independence movement … Read More
Hiking the Routeburn Track
Our final few days in New Zealand were spent hiking another of the Great Walks: the Routeburn Track. This was a shorter overall hike than the Milford, but the main … Read More
Hiking the Milford Track
Touted as ‘the finest walk in the world‘ by poet Blanche Baughan in the London Spectator in 1908, the Milford Track is also the most famous of New Zealand’s Great … Read More
Verbier and Engelberg in the Swiss Alps
Next up on our Ski Europe adventure…Verbier and Engelberg in the Swiss Alps. First, we drove from Les Trois Vallées to Verbier, Switzerland. We chose Verbier for a couple of … Read More
Méribel – Heart of Les 3 Vallées
Our second week in the French Alps was spent in Méribel in the heart of Les 3 Vallées. Our hotel, Alpen Ruitor, was situated in the small village of Méribel … Read More
Les 3 Vallées – Courchevel
We spent our first week of skiing in Europe in Courchevel 1850, the main resort town of one of the three valleys in the Les 3 Vallées ski area in … Read More