Premières traces en raquettes

La poudreuse était au rendez-vous! On était les seuls à s'aventurer à faire la trace dans les 40cm de neige fraiche tombée pendant la nuit! Youhouhou!
Une première pour moi avec mes raquettes aux pieds d'une fille de 12ans! Un succès!

Raquettes à neige sur Verbier

Une superbe matinée avec des traces d'écureuils, lièvres variables et chevreuils partout, combiné avec le chant d'une pie! Le paradis quoi!

Le Chable to Verbier

All the way up there??


Phew, made it!
Am amazed by the amount of snow, this is the first time in 10 years this has been possible!

Powderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

This is THE BEST!
Just got new skis & it keeps dumping! Yeeehaw!
Verbier's South slopes have twice the amount of snow they normally have.

Mother Nature

Winter has been harsh this year for the wild animals. Remains of a chamois which probably fell from a cliff above and was then eaten by the famished critters around. What a sight!

Happy Winter!

Snowshoe Bourg St. Pierre

Right near Italia we had to go check if the snow was falling and the gale winds keeping it all out of Verbier. And it was!
How did Napoleon get through here back in 1800?!

Posing Above Verbier

Sometimes group photos are the hardest to take. hihihihi!
A short but super fun morning.
The sun was shining in Verbier, even though it was snowing everywhere else in Switzerland!

Fresh tracks!

Wonderful week-end with hoar-frost crystals to keep us company in Bruson!

Verbier

Wow! Paradise!
Why do people go to Canada?!?!

Snowflakes in Verbier

What an amazzzzzing winter we are having!!!!

CONTEST - WIN A CHERRIES WALKS OUTING

Guess where this foto was taken before January 30th 2009!
Hint: Val de Bagnes area, on November 24th.

La Garde

Beautiful little summit with tons of animal activity to observe in the fresh snow!

Pimp My Ride

Thanks to Graphitek I now have a CherriesWalks vehicle! Yeeehawwww!

Champex Lac

A beautiful day between the trees & the fresh snowflakes in Champex Lac!

Val d'Anniviers

A beautiful & fun day discovering a new place. It is always good fun to see the mountains I am used to and having dificulty recognising them from another angle.

Fionnay

This is the most beautiful place for a day out of Verbier. Fabulous time observing snow crystals, and animal traks!

Full Moon Snowshoeing

And who thinks snowshoeing is hard?!

Cries

Not too far away from Verbier is a gully with one of the few aspen forests of the Valais. Beautifully accessible on snowshoes at the moment.

La Dranse

The bottom of the valley is magical with hoar frost & animal tracks all over the place. A peaceful refuge from the porsche cayenne's of Verbier!

Chamois

And just around the corner, between the larches in the hoar frost....chamois!

Snowshoeing Col de Chemin

Only in Switzerland in the middle of nowhere will you see a sign like this!

Happy New Year!

First outing of the year in the +35cm of fresh snow that dumped on New Year's Eve! How wonderful to share this day with a long lost friend snowshoeing up to St. Christophe.

Snowshoeing in a new place!

Yippeeee! A beautiful morning in superb conditions, I hope everyone is out playing in all this snow & discovering new areas!

Cabane Brunet

Sunshine & fresh snow before the Christmas & New Year's mayhem. A fabulous skin accross the valley from Verbier!

Les Paccots

Sooooooo much snow this is ridiculous! How anyone can keep from hopping around in it on snowshoes is beyond me!?!

Beautiful Powder

Ski touring in the 4-vallées, hidden spots & high avalanche danger makes for a well deserved beer at the end of it!

Sunday snowshoe

A beautiful tour in the fields between Verbier & Le Châble.

MOVIE Skiing Verbier in November

*PLAY MOVIE!
Watch the flick: Hans Solmssen, Stephen Hadik, Winslow von Maur, Bob Mazerei & little old me having fun before the tourist season starts.
*PLAY MOVIE!

Filmed by UIAGM Guide Hans Solmssen www.swissguides.com

Skin Mt.Fort Verbier

Skinned up to the top of Mt.Fort to glide down the back in fresh powder (ooohhhh first ones there)! Somehow we got all the way to Fionnay!
Yipppeee! Hope you are ready because the mountain sure is!

Verbier Powder

A first for me in November - put the skins on my skis right outside my front door! Broke trail up to Verbier in fresh powder, and cruised down to Le Châble with skiers/tellemarkers supreme Hans Solmssen, Stephen Hadik & Bob Mazzeri. Keep your eyes open for our U-Tube flik comming soon!

Skinning in Verbier

This is a trip we won't forget! To begin with I took the wrong skins & had to use the emergency medical tape to hold them on for the 900m hike. Then the snow machine tried to run us over during our pic-nic. We made a quick get away without spilling the tea, only to discover at the summit that A-V had dropped her camera! On the ski down we stopped at our disrupted pic-nic spot and found it!!

Thank you Anne-Valérie for pushing my head up above & out of the clouds & damp weather to the sun shine at 2700m! Yipppeeee!

Snowshoeing in Verbier

Such a gorjus day! The snow is powdery and the views are to die for! Even I, who live here, can't choose the best photo!!!

Winter has come to Verbier!

Dust off your skis & snowshoes it is dumping in the Alps!

Winter is comming to Val de Bagnes!

Verbier is getting its first BIG snowfalls & CherriesWalks is getting ready for winter dustying off snowshoes! Yikes, the flowers are retreating!
Hope you are all ready!

Morroco

It is very weird to visit 3rd world countries. All I can say is I am not comfortable being a tourist in places where every day life is so tough. I went there thinking I may one day offer tours to clients there, but what I return with is the desire to help them build functioning sceptic systems. Inshalah!

Sahara Flora

Palm trees that produce yummy dates, Tamaris trees or bushes that create shade, a lady bug, something fragile w/ flowers, poisonous & ingenious plants!