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Superb Snow awaits the Derby de la Meije

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

One of the wildest ski races in the world takes place this coming weekend on the magnificent slopes of La Meije at La Grave, France. With bags of recent, fresh snow this year’s Derby de La Meije looks set to be a classic and will run for the full vertical descent of over 2,000 metres.
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Tragic Tignes Avalanche has lessons for us all

Monday, January 16th, 2006

According to Pistehors, “just a bit off-piste is like being just a bit pregnant” - with particular reference to the December Avalanche that took the life of a young snowboarder in Tignes just before Christmas.
This was a relatively small avalanche, close to nearby pistes, and on the sort of slope many of us might often […]

First Tracks Or the Snow Must Go On

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Someone has to do it I suppose. Someone has to be mad enough to head out into the mountains unseasonably early and report back on the conditions. As we mentioned in an earlier story some plucky chaps from the website www.skitour.fr tackled the 4000 meter Barre des Ecrins at the end of September but with the first real snows of the season over the last couple of days would it be possible, sensible even, to try out non-glaciated…

Winter is Coming

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Time to pack away the bikinis and wax down your board. Winter is coming. We’ve had a few dustings of snow already in September. Enough to enable a pair of skiers from www.Skitour.fr to descend from the 4000 meter Barre des Ecrins last weekend in a foot of fresh but with a ratio of ski/portage of 40/60%…


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