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Spring seems well on the way now, the snow’s gone around town and retreating further up the mountain. Outside the chalet the crocuses have appeared and disappeared and further up the hill they’re in their prime. The track and road up to Les Fers is largely clear although climbing up through the forest the trail [...]

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The winter season is drawing to a close now and spring is arriving below 2000m, in a few weeks even the higher passes will be clear of snow and we’ll start some of our spring walking weeks. I’ve taken a lot of photo’s over the winter while out and about with clients and this a [...]

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I’ve been meaning to mention for ages that there was a new avalanche transceiver training centre over at Villars. It’s the standard format using a series of buried transmitters which can be fired randomly from a control panel. When you locate the transmitter and contact it with your probe then it gets turned off. We’ve [...]

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UPDATE  Thanks for the interest and the bookings! We’re now full for this trip. It’s possible I could beg more places so please get in touch, we’ve still good availability for weekday trips. We’ve just made another of our trips to the Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard which was as great as usual! It’s been quite hard [...]

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This is one of the regular routes I do with people on snowshoes but today was slightly different as it was a family group with Julie’s brother and sister who’d been here for a week or so. We’d originally planned to go out in the evening and snowshoe to a mountain restaurant for fondue but [...]

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Another snowshoe trip in our Snowshoeing Holiday program using the lifts to get a head start on the climb, this time from Les Diablerets using the chairlift from the village. We started by avoiding the sledge run which starts from the same place but when the sledge runs starts to head down we turn up [...]

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I’ve been over in the Gstaad area a few times recently, on Saturday I was doing a private day with a French group and had a fantastic time in the the sun on Rellerli. I like Rellerli as you can ride the lift to the ridge and then snowshoe along the ridge quickly out of [...]

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I’d climbed up above Pierre du Moëllé a few days earlier on skis to see if the road on the military side of the col had been cut or not. It’s hardly the quickest way to check especially as I’d skied down below the village before climbing a 1000m back up again. But, it had confirmed [...]

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We run guided snowshoe trips from our base in Leysin, Switzerland using a qualified UIMLA International Mountain Leader. We’ve a variety of snowshoes available for clients to use at no cost. We also provide safety equipment, transceivers, probes, shovels etc as required. Snowshoeing with SwissMountainLeader On the Rellerli side of the Gstaad ski area, above [...]

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For the first time Leysin and Les Mosses are running a “SnowUp” event. This is like the popular summer cycle events the “SlowUp”. There’s no need to close roads in the winter though! There’s a choice of courses, in Leysin we’ve 4, 6 or 10km snowshoe or walking routes while over in Les Mosses there’s [...]

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