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Trident Couloir

28th Dec 2014by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

The first adventure of the season was to an often overlooked line that provided superb situations and stunning views. About 1000 m up from the glacier lands you at the top of the line. Despite being on the sunny side it was bitterly cold and my feet were continuously painful and on the wrong side of cold. The prolonged exposure to the cold in Baffin has definitely taken its toll and I will be investing in some warmer liners later in the week! After months of solid office work it feels great to be back into the mountain and synchronising with the natural rhythm of life, having fun and working the body hard.

Another Sick Sunny Powder Day

28th Mar 2014by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

Liz Daley and Dave Searle enjoying and easy start to the day

On our way up with the Te Crew boys

Dave getting used to a camera I lent him.

Dave killing it, about 2000 m more to comeLiz realising its primo

Dave Searle

Liz is in there

Liz killing it

A little tree adventure and then perhaps last of the pillow lines for this winter

Lush spring walk down to down

Dolomites Part 2

27th Feb 2014by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

Dolomites Part 1

26th Feb 2014by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

After a few weekends when the weather looked poor in the Dolomites we finally hit the road the on the promise of a good forecast. Its a long drive and with lots of traffic round Milan then with lots of snow and an avalanche on the road it was even longer, but worth it as the mountains are stunning.

The Pordoi pass at 2300 m with 5 m of snow lining the sides of the roads. Dolomites ski-25 Cristallo Dolomites ski-24

The sun made a brief outing before the weather deteriorated and dumped another 50 cm.

Friends are flying with us!

Sunny Powder Day

17th Feb 2014by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

Sunny days have been few and far between this year here so you’d expect the lift company to be ready for business on the first sunny powder day for ages. But it snowed a little last night, as forecast, as it does in the mountains…so the lift opens late because they have to clear a few terraces with a snowblower. Its a uncontrolled mountain so they can’t even blame it on avalanche control.

The looks say it all. First there, queuing for 2 hours and not in the first bin.

Good fun once we got there and worth the wait. Super good to be back on the big hill 2800 m vertical runs down the West Face of the Aiguille du Midi to the road.