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Schwarzenbühl
Having recently converted to nordic skate skis my distance in a day has been dramatically curtailed, in fact I’ve dropped from being able to do over 40km in a day to single figures! I was actually a bit surprised by this, I expected to be dropping a bit of distance but not really this much....
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Published 38 minutes ago

4 more days in the Jura
Conscious that snow would be melting on the lowest sections I took 4 days this week to complete the Grande Traversée du Jura (GTJ) that I’d started back in January, along the way I’ve also completed the Grande Traversée Neuchâteloise (GTN)  and the Traversée du Jura Suisse (TJS)....
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Published 6 days ago

3 days in the Jura
I’d planned to take three days to ski from Les Verrières de Joux, just over the border in France, to Les Bugnenets using the Traversée du Jura Suisse (TJS) route which mostly coincides with the Grande Traversée Neuchâteloise (GTN) but it’s not been great weather all week so when I arrived...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Sorens
It’s a small and low local station at Sorens and I don’t really know how the season will be this year but right now it’s a great little spot, the closest nordic skiing to the house down here and a chance to ski through terrain that’s normally meadows. I’ve been here and done the longer...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Col du Mollendruz -> Col du Marchairuz
I’d skied over here doing the Traversée du Jura Suisse but dropped off the ridge in poor weather. I wanted to go back and ski the section in the ridge so I parked at col du Mollendruz where there were only two other cars and set out along the ridge. It’s a around a 27km loop from col du...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Les Rasses, Vaud, Switzerland
It was pretty cold this morning and we were a little undecided where to go, we’d been at Sorens yesterday and had an idea to return there and do one of the longer loipes but I’d been wanting to go to the Les Rasses in the Jura. Looking at the webcam first thing though it looked pretty bleak...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Nods
I did some nordic skiing over here a few weeks and it was obvious that the snowshoeing would be pretty good so when I needed somewhere to go today this seemed an obvious idea. We set off using one of the winter paths but this meandered a bit too much so we took a direct route in the forest to get...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Métabief, France
I parked the car around at Les Hôpitaux-Vieux and nearly stayed in it. It had been cold at home but there seemed the chance of some sun, by the time I’d crossed the border into France and got to Les Hôpitaux-Vieux that chance of sun had vanished and it was snowing heavily and very cold. My...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Zinal
After not posting any photo’s for ages, here’s two days one after another! Obviously slightly busier today with the main holiday season kicking in so there was a small queue for the lift, in fact the new, increased capacity car looks like it’s copying reasonably well all things considered....
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Published a month ago

Zinal
A few shots around Zinal as I’ve not posted many for ages, in part because I’ve been doing some other things elsewhere but also because I’ve not taken any. I actually left without my camera this morning but turned round to get it as an afterthought. We were noticing it getting busier during...
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Published a month ago