Month: February 2010

15/2/10

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 …

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14/2/10

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 …

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5/2/10

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 …

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