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Eiger traverse
- Date:
- 03.08.2015
- Characteristic:
- Alpine trip
- Duration:
- 9:00h
After spending a night at the Cosmiques hut, Rocio and I discussed a few of our options in Chamonix. Rocio was keen to get some AD/D graded ridge climbs done and first on the list of possibilities was the Eiger since the heat wave in Europe this summer had now made the Mittellegi ridge in reasonable condition. I had of course done minimal research on the Eiger beforehand but I came here really to just do some decent climbing so if Rocio thought it was worth doing then I was more than happy to go along with it! It looked like Monday was going to be a decent weather day for summiting any peak so ideally we needed to be doing the walk in to a hut the next day. Unfortunately it seemed there were no beds available at the Mittellegi hut on Sunday night. So we needed a new plan. The south ridge on >>>
Aiguilles Crochues
- Date:
- 31.07.2015
- Characteristic:
- Alpine trip
- Duration:
- 4:00h
Første dagen på alpeferie i år og det ble en nydelig tur over Aiguilles Crochues. Planen for denne ferien var å reise rundt med min venninne og aspirantguide Rocio. Tidligere i år hadde hun spurt meg om jeg var interessert i å teame opp med henne og finne noen fine alpinegger å klatre da hun hadde noen frie uker i forkant av sin siste eksamen og ville øve mest mulig. Siden jeg ikke hadde lagt ferieplanen akkurat da var det derfor et fint tilbud som jeg naturlig takket ja til. Vi møttes på Fleur des Neiges hvor jeg hadde overnattet og diskuterte planen for de neste dagene basert på værmeldinga og mtp akklimatisering. Været her i Chamonix var nydelig og varmt så det virket som en god ide å utnytte det istedenfor å kjøre østover mot Valaisalpene med en gang og finne på noe der. >>>
Punta de la Pierre
- Date:
- 02.02.2015
- Characteristic:
- Randonnée/Telemark
- Duration:
- 5:00h
Da var det min siste hel dag på ferie i Chamonix og for å utnytte den ble jeg med på en tur med Rob og tre andre som hadde meldt seg på turen – John, James og Adam. Jeg hadde uansett ikke noen turkompiser å dra på tur med og var ikke kjent med turmuligheter i området, så å være med på en guidede dagstur virket som en naturlig og enkel løsning. Nok en gang var det snøvær i Chamonix men det så ut til å bli mye finere vær på andre siden av den Mont Blanc tunnelen i Aostadalen. Skredfaren var en 3-er der i dag mens det var fortsatt på nivå 4 i Chamonix.
Planen var derfor å gå opp Pointe de la Pierre fra ei liten bygd som heter Ozein, på ca. 1400m. Turen går mye i slakt terreng på nord/nordvestsiden av fjellet, så det skulle være et trygt valg med god tørrsnø her. Det >>>
Portjengrat traverse
- Date:
- 22.08.2014
- Characteristic:
- Alpine climbing
- Duration:
- 10:30h
Final day of the climbing week. Objective: Portjengrat. This is a ca. 1km long ridge route at alpine AD/AD+ and according to the guidebook, required in the region of 9 hours to complete from the Almageller hut. Originally Terry had proposed that we have breakfast at 3.30am again to leave by 4am, but since the hut wardens weren’t serving breakfast earlier than 5am, it meant that we would aim to leave by 5.30am. Luxury alpine start?(!). I slept incredibly well, despite sharing a small dormitory with approx. 8 or 9 other guys. This has to be the first time EVER I have stayed in an alpine hut with so many guys who DON’T snore! Unbelievable. In a good way :)
The atmosphere round our table at breakfast was somewhat quiet, in contrast to some of the other groups who seemed un-normally chatty for >>>
Dri Hörnli
- Date:
- 21.08.2014
- Characteristic:
- Alpine climbing
- Duration:
- 6:00h
After some heavy rain showers during the previous evening, we all woke up to a surprisingly sunny morning in Saas Grund. Turns out the weather was proving to be better than what we’d expected from the forecast. Anyway, we had a decent, laid-back breakfast and got ready to leave at around 10am. The plan for today was to walk up to the Almageller hut, leave behind stuff we didn’t need and then do an afternoon climb on the Dri Horlini (or Dri Hörnli), which is graded at around 4/4+. It was great to be wearing lighter and more flexible boots today too! I had only tested out a pair of Scarpa Rebel Lite goretex boots on one or two hikes before leaving Tromsø, so I hoped they would be equally as comfortable now.
The walk up to the hut starts from Saas Almagell. We saved ourselves one or two hundred >>>
Allalinhorn ENE ridge
- Date:
- 20.08.2014
- Characteristic:
- Alpine trip
- Duration:
- 5:00h
After our ascent of the Gran Paradiso North Face we descended back down to the valley from the Chabod hut in fog and rain showers and took a coffee break at the cafe at Pont. While here we had a browse through the guide books, got an updated weather forecast and thought over our options for the rest of the week. There seemed to be a bit of unstable weather until thursday, but friday looked to be a good day. After much discussion and suggestions, we made a plan to drive to Saas Grund and have a base there for the next two nights, and one night at the Almageller hut, which was more or less within the same area.
So we made the long(ish) drive back from Italy over the St. Bernards Pass into Switzerland again and eastwards along the Rhone valley towards the Saas valley. To break up the journey a bit we stopped at a Coop >>>
Gran Paradiso North Face
- Date:
- 18.08.2014
- Characteristic:
- Alpine trip
Summer in Norway has been superb and I never intended to travel abroad to indulge in mountain trips at all this year. It was only after some more recent climbing and scrambling-style trips that I suddenly realised how much I missed alpine-style trips and ended up dreaming of heading to some higher mountains again. Since I was feeling a bit rusty on climbing and ropework in general and was lacking friends to go to the Alps on a semi-spontaneous trip with, the obvious solution seemed to be to join a guided course. I was not entirely convinced it would be worth it since I had only heard talk about the weather being awful in the Alps all summer, but in the end I decided to take the chance anyway, I couldn’t imagine it would be worse than being out during a mild winter spell in Scotland could >>>
La Berneuse
- Date:
- 16.08.2014
- Characteristic:
- Walk
- Duration:
- 2:30h
Tok en spasertur til La Berneuse i morges. Bra oppvarming til den kommende uken. Det er fullt mulig å ta heisen dersom det ønskes, men det går mange diverse stier (av høykvalitet) opp dit fra Leysin sentrum. Dette må sies: det er godt å nyte slike stier etter å ha blitt vant til å lete etter 'en slags sti' i Nord Norge de siste tre årene!
Fin utsikt over hele dalen, mot øst og sør. Fikk ikke se mange topper i Valaisalpene på grunn av tåke/bygeskyer, men det var fin stemning likevel. På turen ned tok jeg en litt lengre variant tilbake til byen. Det finnes skilt over alt, så det er bare å følge dem som frister!
Tete de Balme
- Date:
- 12.01.2014
- Characteristic:
- Randonnée/Telemark
- Duration:
- 3:00h
Hadde en fri dag i Chamonix før skikjøringkurs skulle foregå, så jeg brukte anledning til å dra på en liten tur i området og få litt bevegelse i beina. Hadde ingen peiling om hvor som skulle passe bra til skiturer her, så fikk litt råd fra chalet-eieren. Hun foreslo om å gå opp fra Le Tour til Tete de Balme siden det var lov til å gå opp fjellet på ski ved siden av skibakkene. Så det jeg gjorde.
Tok bussen fra Chamonix til Le Tour, hvor jeg traff utallige mange skikjørere som var på ferie. Litt annerledes for noen som kommer fra Nord-Norge og er vant til å se nesten ingen andre på det samme fjellet! Uansett, tok skiene på og satte kurs mot den første heisen. Selv om jeg var heldig med strålende sol i dag, var skiføret svært dårlig. Typisk vårsnø som ikke hadde blitt >>>
Mont Blanc
- Date:
- 15.07.2009
- Characteristic:
- Alpine trip
Wednesday, 15th July 2009
Bumming around in the morning and generally not rushing around was quite nice after 2 days of early starts. In fact, 10am actually came round pretty quickly and we were soon met at the apartment by our guides Hannah and Anthony to make the drive over to Chamonix (yes, it became something of a joke that there were actually three Hannahs in a group of 6). The general plan was to have lunch in Argentiere and then continue to the Aiguille du Midi station in Chamonix. Surprisingly it took less time to travel by car than it did when we took the Mont Blanc Express train, despite all the switchbacks in the road which probably made the route longer. It was about midday by the time we parked up in Argentiere and we sat at some park benches to eat our sandwiches. Chamonix was >>>
