Okay you've found this page and want to know about skiing the Vallée Blanche (White Valley). You've heard it is the run to do at the end of your week in Chamonix and is not that hard but are havering ...

Approach skis or mini skis are short skis that are fitted with a special binding and are fitted with climbing skins. They are used to climb to off-piste routes over difficult snow conditions and can ...

The avalanche ball is a development of the avalanche cords that skiers used before the development of avalanche transceiver. Like a cord, it floats to the surface giving an immediate visual clue as to ...

A snow slab is basically a cohesive layer of snow sitting on a weaker layer. The danger with slabs is that a large mass of snow can slide down a slope burying a skier. Slabs can be divided into hard ...

The Snow Wolf is basically the big brother of the Völkl Norbert Joos. It takes the Volkl's skin-clip system. The ski is also light, 2530g en 170cm for a pair. However it seems to also suffer from the ...

The paper "Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents" presented at the 2002 International Snow Science Workshop by Ian McCammon gives some interesting insights into the decisions ...

Once over this hurdle, it was an easy valley road to Hauteluce, then the climb proper. I passed by the chapelle blanche to almost make a loop. Only the last few kilometers to the col were shared.

Sunday afternoon ride after a pub lunch. I thought I was going quite well but 2m30 slower on the course a cote (Limonest zig zags) compared to my PR. I'll have to check when I did that but I was ...

A return trip to Hawaii (a surf spot on the Rhone river) along the river towpath. Once on the gravel hard going as the heavy rains of September have left a lot of ruts and gravel. Needs a good cleanup ...

With the same dimensions as the new Black Diamond Stigma, the Machine is oriented to carving in hard snow conditions. It has excellent edge hold but the short turn radius would also make it a great ...