In early April, I had the privilege of tail guiding for two friends in Europe: Olivia Cussen and John Race, owners and guides for the Northwest Mountain School (mountainschool.com) . From April 7 -12 we skied through the Western Alps from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland on a 6 day, 5 night hut tour. Our group consisted of Ken, Shelae, Jess and Jeremy as intrepid adventurers with John and Olivia as guides and me as official helper.
Great views and incredible mountains surrounded us. Here we are almost to the Col Du Chardonnay.
We had one rappel on the route at the Col du Chardonnay.
All of the Swiss Huts are fantastic and comfortable with great food. This enables one to travel with a fairly light pack. Light Pack = Fun Skiing!
Skiing on the glaciers here is just incredible!
The Mt Fort Hut in Verbier.
Climbing to the top of Rosablanche. A high summit along the way.
Our group on the summit.
Olivia Cussen, aka Wilma Schralpington makes it look so easy.
The icing on the cake was skiing powder on our final long day below the awesome north face of the Matterhorn.From the town of Zermatt, the Matterhorn looms large.
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