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With the weather and the Foehn winds hanging around we decided to get some history. So Stina called Kate and Mary Louise and we hatched a plan to go check out where the puppies come from. It’s 2000′ of vertical gain and 3 miles one way. With a history dating back to 1000AD the Hospice [...]

We set out early for Saas Grund with some options. The Hohsaas Lift offers high access to the peaks east of Saas Grund. Weissmies and Fletchorn offer good options for skiing but we weren’t sure how the snow over in this zone was. It’s about an hour and a half from Verbier. On arrival the [...]

So this day we got a line I’ve coveted since my last visit. I spent far too much time in the bar on my last visit. It was productive time as I got about 60 pages written for my book, but the weather just wasn’t cooperating last time. This visit we seem to have the [...]

For our first 2 days of our trip we were skiing around Verbier. Visiting a bunch of lines that I skied the last time I was here. We also skied a line that I had been eyeing the last time too. This was the steep face above Lac de Cleuson on Pointe Le Ferret. It’s [...]

My friend AnnChristina, whom I had met on my last visit, invited me back to Verbier for some more skiing. Weather was the only issue keeping me from returning and the window seemed to look like it was going to open for Saturday. I made a quick exit from Andorra after skiing and headed across [...]

Well I’ve been in Switzerland now for 3 days. The first day was storming like crazy when I woke up and I had been up for 36 hours getting here so I went back to bed. This was a good idea I think. So much of Verbier is above treeline and never having skied the [...]