I proposed to AACB members (and a few mountaineering friends) to join a „summer camp“ in Bergell. Simple idea inspired from last summer: gather there for a week using a local camping as base camp, and tour around to discover some of the amazing local moutaineering routes. To keep the organisation minimal and make everyone adjust his expectations, I asked […]
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„Powder in the South“ is the title I picked to publish this tour in our newsletter… that was no lie! I wish I could write more often for tours like that 🙂 In one word: *u*n*i*q*u*e* Friday: we agreed to stop in Furka valley on our way to Bedretto, direction Winterhorn (aka Pizza d’Orsino), a long open ridge […]
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In the quest for some snow after the rather dry last 2 weeks, southern Alps were an obvious pick! And the weather forecast was promising as well… indeed the walliser miracle happened one more time when the train exited the Lötscheberg tunnel. For the first day (of the weekend and of the season), we had resolved to go for a […]
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Participants: Thomas (organizer), Jessica (AACZ), Vaclav (AACZ). Two tours already published on the AACB newsletter for this week end. Why then offer a third one? because I really resolved to enjoy the early summer season for those tours that requires good snow conditions. Among those, the Bluemlisalp Überschreitung is on top of the list: almost 2km of snow ridges, somewhere […]
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Last tour of the year, June already! Claudio proposes Strahlhorn with a biwak at the Mattmark dam. Hiking from Saas Almagell to the lake, the bag is not exactly light (tent + skis + glacier gear)! Four star bivy with risotto al’porcini 🙂 Renato, the third guy supposed to join never shows up and Claudio can’t reach him because of […]
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