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For the remainder of our Alpine holiday, we headed northeast across the Austrian border to Stubaital. Volderau proved a convenient (if very wet in the evening!) base for some very spectacular and varied mountain walks and a couple of days’ mountaineering on Zuckerhütl, Wilder Pfaff and Wilder Freiger.
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For the first few days of this year’s Alpine adventure, we headed to the beautiful Stelvio National Park in the Südtirol region of northern Italy. Based in Trafoi, we enjoyed three day walks to acclimatise and then tackled the easy glaciated peak of Monte Cevedale.
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I visited Alex and Ausma for another excellent long weekend, spending a day walking in the Black Forest then three days walking and snowshoeing in the Swiss Alps, based in Küblis.
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For the second part of the holiday, we relocated to Arolla in the Swiss Valais Alps. Alex T joined us for a long weekend of easy mountaineering based at the Cabane des Dix, with Mont Blanc de Cheilon being the undoubted highlight.
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For the second half of the holiday we moved the other side of Mont Blanc, to Argentière in the Chamonix valley. The weather was a little cooler than it had been in Italy but we still had several sunny days’ for more super walking through awesome scenery!
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This year’s main summer holiday was to the Marienne valley in the French Alps, with Ruth, Alison, Ian and Emma. Staying in the village of Termignon, we spent eleven days sampling the excellent walking, scrambling, via ferrata and mountaineering in and around the Vanoise National Park. We then spread the drive home over a few days to visit a few cities and sights along the way.
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Ian, Emma and I then spent four days mountaineering, while Jon and Amy went to Lago Maggiore (not far away in Italy). Spending two nights in the Dix hut and one at the Vignettes hut, we enjoyed excellent weather and spectacular scenery on three peaks: La Luette, Pigne d’Arolla and L’Evêque.
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For this year’s main holiday I spent a couple of weeks in Ötztal, in the Tyrol region of Austria, with six friends from CUHWC. We camped in the small town of Längenfeld, which proved an excellent base from which to explore the valley and surrounding peaks. We had more than our fair share of wet weather, but still managed several excellent walks, a couple of easy Alpine peaks and a via ferrata.
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This year’s CUHWC summer trip went to the Saastal area of the Valais Alps in Switzerland, based in Saas Grund. My Alpine gear didn’t get very extensive use this year, but I did several excellent walks to 3000m+ peaks: the Mittaghorn, Monte Moro, Jegihorn (by via ferrata) and Seetalhorn.
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After the Alpine course, we stayed in Switzerland for another week, moving to Zermatt for the official CUHWC summer trip, where we were joined by a few others from the club. We had more fine weather for a mixture of walking and mountaineering, including two summits over 4000m.
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Seven of us from CUHWC, along with five others, went on an ISM Alpine mountaineering course in the Valais Alps of Switzerland. After a couple of days based in Leysin learning Alpine ropework and climbing skills, we moved to the Trient plateau to combine this with training on snow and ice, and to climb a couple of peaks. Also included are a few photos of Ruth and my day in Geneva before the course started.
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