TR: Switzerland SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW

In the lure of future snow for the alps, and me moving to Switzerland in 26 days and 10 hours, I thought I would post my first TR from this past March in Switzerland.

We went to the Interlaken areas, specifically Grindelwald and Murren.

And then proceeded down to Zermatt to ski there and Cervinia in Italy.

We went in beginning/Mid march which all of you Euro Mags know was a huge dump 1-2 meters in some places. We arrived about a day after the storm cleared. We couldnt have timed it better if we tried!




Grindelwald village
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Avalanche across the valley up in Murren(notice the hang glider)
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Top of the Schilthorn.
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My Dad getting some turns under the lift at Murren
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Yet another(Very large) avalanche WAY WAY across the valley. These both were naturally triggered.
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The awesome Village of Murren, if you get the chance, go there, its in the middle of nowhere and getting there is half the fun...
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No description needed(Zermatt)
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We got a guide and took a tour from klein Matterhorn down the gornegrat glacier and the one that goes up to Monte Rosa. This was Miggy our guide.
HE HAS CLIMED THE MATTERHORN ~95 TIMES!!!
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Getting to a part of the Glacier we could ski
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I guess we can ski this hah
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My cousin getting some turns
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Thats me under the tail end of the glacier. The year before I was there it was about ~15 meters lower, point being, the glaciers are melting, and its weird to see...
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From atop Klein Matterhorn with Mont Blanc in the distance, but that village WAY down there is actually Cervenia(Way down bottom right corner).
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Ski into Italy for a some wine and sandwich
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And the fact that the alps should be getting some new snow over the next few days and them needing it as bad as the sierras do here in Califonia, ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX ANTIJINX


Do the snow dance, pray for snow, and LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW

Nice pics! The snow is coming...give me a PM when you are over to make some turns this season. KEEP DANCING!

Man that was a great TR. Thanks for posting. I will be so so close to those areas this May but I don't think I will get to visit the mountains. Even if just to look around.

very nive pics! so you skied the black door?

Very nice pics.
I am sure you will have a good time in Switzerland.

I miss Switzerland...... even though you can not beat Colorado for the sun shine and the early season powder.

http://www.xristos.co.uk/froboy/arch...s/feb03/ub.jpg Solid first TR. More expected.

Murren is a very cool town. I've never been there during the winter but I can imagine getting there is an adventure in itself. Sweet pics.

Well done dude. That part of the world is unbelievably beautiful. You glacier route in Zermatt. Did you go via the Klein Matterhorn? What was the route? Looks sweet.

thanks for posting. it's been a long time since i've been to gwald/murren!

mmmm, that looks niiiiice....

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Top of the Schilthorn.
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Luv glaciers. Thanks for that

Good way to start out, keep pumping out euro stoke like that in the future...PLEASE!

Amazing pics, looks like some sick lines would drop you right into your hotel in Grindelwald.

Two words.
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Great pix mang! Thanks for sharing. Holeeeee shit I would NOT want to be that hang glider!

Looks like some decent terrain. The dude in that paraglider was prolly like "fucken aa!" watching the avys. And How do you keep those views from making your eyeballs pop out of their sockets? Thanks for that one.

yeah buddy.

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Originally Posted by geo039

Nice pics! The snow is coming...give me a PM when you are over to make some turns this season. KEEP DANCING!

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I definately will---

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Originally Posted by verbier61

very nive pics! so you skied the black door?

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Whats the black door exactly?

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Originally Posted by comish

Well done dude. That part of the world is unbelievably beautiful. You glacier route in Zermatt. Did you go via the Klein Matterhorn? What was the route? Looks sweet.

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Ya we went Via klein Matterhorn, down under that tram and into the huge vast valley where the gornegrat glacier meets the one im blanking on the name it goes all the way from Monte Rosa down the valley. Im going to look up the exact route and ill let you know!

black door is the name of the tour from klein matterhorn to breithorn/castor/pollux glacier and back to zermatt..... a classic, easy and very nice one. some people does it without skins (the glacier before the door is almost flat), but with skins it's much easier and faster

black door = schwartztor in german (but I am not sure of the spell....)

A short description (with map and photos) of the Schwarztor descent can be found here:

http://www.cosleyhouston.com/alp-ski/hr-d2d/hr-day8.htm

Here you have an overview of the descent along the "Schwärzegletscher" (the Schwarztor is the col right of the middle of the picture)
http://members.chello.at/helmut.gass...tor_Pollux.jpg

^^^ that's $$$ ^^^


ok, so who wants to do it this season? :)

IN!!!! and did I say.... IN!! Name a time....:biggrin:

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^^^ that's $$$ ^^^


ok, so who wants to do it this season? :)

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Oh.
My.
Fucking.
God.

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