Category Archives: Alps
Écrins 2005 – Local info
Local information for Vallouise, Ailefroide, les Vigneaux Overview The Écrins region and National Park lies to the south-east of Grenoble in the département of Hautes-Alpes. Two main valleys cut into the massif. The Vénéon, in which la Bérade is the … Continue reading →
Écrins 2005 – Refuges and Huts
You can see larger versions of the pictures on this page in the Slideshow. Refuge du Sélé The refuge The refuge is a curious warehouse-like structure perched on a bit of levelled ground 50 metres or so above the valley … Continue reading →
Écrins 2005 – À Bout de Souffle
If you’ve reached this page with a search engine and don’t want to read through all the detail, please go to the brief report in the "Logbook", which also has photos. Introduction This was going to be an important trip … Continue reading →
Écrins 2005 – Logbook
On this page is my brief report with the basic facts of the trip and most of the pictures. The Refuges and Huts page has information about the four huts I stayed in or visited. Local Info is just that. … Continue reading →
Berner Oberland 2002, part 3
Lauterbrunnen Day 7 – Thurs 1 August Down Up at 0700 – more snow overnight, no freeze – breakfast – down to Jungfraujoch station for first train (0900) – Kleine Scheidegg – Lauterbrunnen – collect bags forwarded from Meiringen – … Continue reading →
Berner Oberland 2002, part 2
Finsteraarhorn Day 4 – Monday 29 July Early I mentioned that I’m not at my best with early starts. I’m even less at my best when the start is directly and steeply uphill – I just don’t seem to get … Continue reading →
Berner Oberland 2002, part 1
Introduction Before we start . . . We met up at Zurich airport – Chris, John and me. John and I were an hour and a half late thanks to Easyjet, so we’d missed our connecting train that would have … Continue reading →
Berner Oberland – July 2001
Things didn’t quite go according to plan on this trip. Our original plan was an 8 – 9 day traverse of the Berner Oberland, with some significant summits on the way. Then there were Plans B, C, D, . . … Continue reading →
More Valais Alps – July 2000
Introduction A year after our first experience of alpine mountaineering (see trip report) Chris and I returned to the Valais Alps to climb some easy-ish peaks on own without a guide. Udai joined us for the first two days before … Continue reading →