Today Damien and I went drytooling at Le Fayet. The weather was crap in the mountains and it wastoo warm to ice climb so we opted for a training day. It was good fun and we did some ok routes and got boxed out our minds so its all good. Back into the mountains tomorrow …
On Tuesday Damien and I decided to have a fairly chilled day, but we also wanted to make the most of the remaining good weather as it is forecast to go bad for the rest of the week. We headed up the Midi again and did “Cosmiques Aréte” which is a mega classic route in …
On Monday after Sarah and James had left to go back to Britain, Damien and I headed up the Midi to go out onto the Vallée Blanche to check out the condition of the high mountain ice and mixed routes. Over the past three weeks the routes have been getting fatter and starting to look …
My sister and James have both been staying with Damien and I for the last week. We have mostly just been skiing and chilling, but on Wednesday Sarah had to catch up on some University work so James, Damien and I went Ice climbing. We went to “Notre Dame De Bellecombe” area and climbed two …
Today Damo and I headed back to Flumet but to a different area this time. We went to “Nant de la coufia” area to look at what routes it had to offer. It had been snowing since we got up this morning and it was still dumping when we walked up the gorge to the …
On the 3rd (my birthday) Damien and I headed off to Manigod area to climb some ice falls we had read about in the guide. We climbed two routes, the first was a 60m WI 5 called “Adrenaline” which is regarded as a local classic. We climbed it in two 30m pitches which we felt …
Today Damien and I headed to an area we had not yet been to. We went to Flumet hoping to climb one of the routes in the guide. After a lot of driving around in circles in the town of Flumet trying to decipher the guide description on how to get to the routes we …
Over the last few days Damien and I have just been skiing due to Damien’s arm problems. His shoulder seems to be sorting its self out and we hope to get out climbing again soon.Today we had an early start and headed up the Midi to do the Valée Blanché. The weather was nice but …
Pics; 1st- Me on the first pitch of “Le Cigare”2nd – Damo on the last pitch of “Le Cigare”3rd – “Dessous Choc” WI 6, in the eary fog4th -Me on the first pillar of “Dessous Choc”5th – Damo on his way to the traverse on “Dessous choc” before he got arm problems6th – Me just …
Pics; Top- Damo aproaching the ice fall Bottom- Damo leading “cascade de la stassaz” I woke up this morning feeling like I had been hit in the face with a shovel! My eye had become swollen and puffy, but despite the fact I could only really see out of one eye I was still fairly …
