ski, ski, ski

Yesterday was blue skies and sun for a fab tour of the Berard Valley from Chamonix. Started above the Index Chair and climbed the Col du Crochue. Loads of fresh snow at the top of the Berard, in fact a bit too much, as I struggles slightly in thigh deep snow, not easy making a turn in that. Lower it was fab loads of lovely turns to look back on. There is so much snow out here, though it is pretty variable. Today skied at Vallorcine, to quote Mark, '1 run 7 types of snow'. Stewart's new skis didn't seem to hold him back too much, even in the mixture we were skiing. Clag set in so .... had to ajourn to the pub

Amazing amount of snow for this time of year, seems that everywhere is closing down just as there is the best snow of the season. Snow is wet lower down but great above about 1800m. For those doing high level walks in June unless the weather heats up a lot there is going to be masses of snow to get through. Spring flowers this year are at least a couple of weeks later than usual.

Forecast is for more snow and very mixed cloud over the next few days.

Edinburgh....

Have just had 2 domestic days in Edinburgh. Caught up with loads of folk, sorted out my world, well a little bit.... best of all caught up with Elspeth, this has to have a special mention as we have been ships in the night for ages.

Off to the Alps early for some fun

Namche Dental Fundraising

Check out the blog site for the fundraising events I am organising for Namche Dental Clinic in Namche Bazar, Nepal. Any help would be appreciated, so if you want to come along to dinner at Wok and Wine or do the 9 4000ft Munros, just get in touch

http://namchedental.blogspot.com/

A lull in the action

It has been a bit of a busy time... doing nothing really. Well not nothing just lots of things. I have been based at home in Scotland for a couple of weeks and am trying to just get lots of stuff up to date. I am also in the process of house hunting and that is not proving easy as there are very few houses to hunt, most I have seen in Aviemore are the size of shoeboxes.

Today there is a beautiful blanket of snow, a cloudy blue sky and the Cairngorms are white in the distance, what an amazing view from my study.

Off to the Alps on Thursday for some ski touring