The Lauenensee is a beautiful lake just waiting for you to take the time to come and discover it. Nestled away in the pasturelands above Gstaad it is a real Heidi postcard!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Gstaad
The Lauenensee is a beautiful lake just waiting for you to take the time to come and discover it. Nestled away in the pasturelands above Gstaad it is a real Heidi postcard!
Friday, August 8, 2008
Rochers de Naye
Just above Montreux is a spot worth visiting. The train can take you up or back down to see the impressive views down onto the lac léman (lake geneva) if you don't feel up to hiking up. But the flowers are worth the hike, and the alpine salamanders we saw all over make the trip increadible!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
La Fouly
La Fouly has so many hikes to do it is always difficult to choose which one to do! This was an unforgetable occasion with martagon lilies all over the place. Looking at the mountain views and the flowers and the bugs...ayyyie, what a hard life!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Bisse du Trient
This easy walk brings you to the mouth of the Trient Glacier. An amazing spot where you can really see how the ice formed the valley and get a feel for how far the glacier has receeded. Beatiful and sad. Let's hope it doesn't all disapear too fast...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Mauvoisin
At the end of the Bagnes valley is the spectacular Mauvoisin dam. The alpine water it holds looks as though someone emptied powdered milk into it!
What a day for Australians who have been living through a drought for the past few years. I just wish they could take some of it home with them.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Pointe de l'Arpille
It looks steep but it really isn't. The Rhone valley below us is so flat with its yummy ripe apricot trees (late this season with the cold spell we had in May). From the top the view spans from the Combins to the Mont Blanc region.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Pierre Avoi
A beautiful hike around the hills of Verbier. For those who aren't affraid of heights the top of the Pierre Avoi is not to be missed. The views will make you feel teeeeny-weeeny!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Mountain Biking
Well we followed the path of the Grand Raid, from Verbier to Grimmentz...
I just don't know how Myriam Saugy does it in under 8 hours.
It took us THREE DAYS!!!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Champex Lac
Hiking from Champex Lac is such a pleasure with the lake to start and end from. But it doesn't take much to get into alpine terrain!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Last skin of the season
The Arpille is beautiful on skis, snowshoes, & foot.
Haven't tested it on bike yet...
Friday, April 18, 2008
Adonis
The only place in Switzerland you can find this flower growing wildly and naturally.
It is a remain of the glacial stepp we had over 10'000 years ago when the glaciers retreated.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Vallée Blanche Chamonix Mont Blanc
Just taking the lift up to the Aiguilles du Midi is enough to make anyone gape!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Skin up Arpille
Huffing and puffing up to the view of Mont Blanc at the top, before racing back to work for the afternoon! Nothing but good friends, good snow and happy alps!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Snowshoe Saint Christophe
Snowstorms are fabulous to snowshoe in! The air changes, the way you breath and look at things change, and sounds are distorted in the most wonderful ways! I am enraptured with my life!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Grand-St. Bernard
This is the place to come to be saved by dogs with booze tied to their necks! Brought a friend up for his first ski tour, lovely day and pic-nic. Perfect for beginers and snowshoers!
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