IML Winter Skills Course 2008 – Grand Bornand
A full week avalanche awareness, avalanche rescue and snowshoe leader course with instruction from BMG Guide “Cube” in French Grand Bornand Alps.
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Italian Dolomites 2013 – our alternative AV2
This year we went to the Italian Dolomites to have a go at the “Alta Via 2” also called the “Dolomiten Höhenweg”. We went in the last week of June expecting a considerable amount of old snow from the long cold winter, but to our great surprise we encountered some huge dumps of fresh snow. Consequently we » read more »
Italian High Level Route July 2009
Directly after finishing our Tour des Combin we we went round to Zermatt and met up with British Mountain Guides Kathy Murphy and Cube to do some high level glacier treking & Hutting with a bit of easy 4000m peak bagging too. Our group was Roger, Patrick, Jane, Jon, Martin and another Phil. Day » read more »
Madeira 2025
For a bit of a change we got a cheap TUI package trip to Madeira this September. It was really quite good ;-) Day 1: We took the Funchal Cable car and had a walk around some gardens including Jardim Botanico Distance: 8km, Ascent: 200m, Descent: 200m Day 2: Levada do Norte (South) We set » read more »
