The Verbier Seasonaire Diary

Quit your day job, buy some 100mm wide powder skis & move to the alps!
Doing a ski season is easy - Coming back is the hard part.
And there is always a risk you might miss a classic Scottish season back home...

Verbier Photos

Various photos taken around Verbier - sorted by area.
One of the worlds finest resorts for lift accessed off piste skiing ?

Attelas Chutes
Stairway / Highway / Lac De Vaux
Mont Fort
Mont Gele
L'Eythegeon
The Vallon D'Arby
Bec des Etagnes
Bruson
New Years Eve / Scenery & Drunken Debaucheries
Bec des Rosses


If you would like more information on off piste skiing around Verbier then get in touch for a copy of the secret haggis trap pdf photo guide.

Ski Touring Photos

Sometimes you gotta go all hippie and use skins instead of cable cars.
A selection of ski touring pics, from the little Six Blanc to the mighty Mont Blanc.

Catwalk - Superb half day tour on backside of Mont Fort
Rossablanche to Siviez - The classic Verbier day tour
Glacier du Prafleuri - Varient on the Rossablanche tour (i.e day 3 haute route)
Mt Rouge - A little peak above Veysonnaz
Six Blanc - Half day tour above Bruson
St Bernard Pass - Ski touring on the Swiss / Italian border
Mont Blanc - Chamonix

Road Trip Photos

Fill up with petrol, load up on munchies, and hit the highway. Dont forget to call shotgun!
Go explore various resorts that rock for off piste... Some of them big some of them small.

Champec Lac
Chamonix - Valley Blanche par la Combe Ouest
Chamonix - Petit Envers Du Plan
La Grave - Day 1 (Vallon De Meije / Bannana Colouir / Chirouze Left)
La Grave - Day 2 (La Voute / L'Ociere Droite)
Super St Bernard
Glacier 3000
Les Marecottes
La Fouly / Val Feret
Arolla

Links

A few articles written for the Natives www site

Verbier Resort Report
Long live the micro-ski stations...St Bernard pass
Ski Touring on the Glacier Prafleuri
Hitching home on a Swiss bin lorry

Couple of useful swiss www sites with piste maps etc

Bergfex directory of every ski resort in Switzerland
Pays du St Bernard - Micro ski stations in Valais