Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Day 4: Down to Les Hauderes; Alphorn Festival

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This part of the descent was 'only' from 2,500 meters down to 1,600 meters. Below, looking south toward Col Collon and Tete Blanche...

Day 5: Leaving Arolla with a Guide

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Through hiking contacts, we found mountain guide Josette Valloton  of Arolla, Switzerland to get us across the Glacier of Arolla and up to t...
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Day 5: To the Col de Collon (3,100 meters) over the Arolla Glacier

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The Haut/High Glacier of Arolla is very rocky, flat, and easy to cross. We were glad to be roped to guide Josette Valloton, even though f...

Day 6: Rifugio Nacamuli (2,800 meters) down to Valpelina (2,000 meters)

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Comba d'Oren; we are now in Italy, although names have a French inflection. It was a spectacular descent through an alpine valley, a l...

Day 6: Up to Col de Valcornera (3,100 meters) from Valpellina (2,000 meters)

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This was a very difficult ascent.  There was late snow, the slope was quite steep, the path had been covered by snow and rock, and the slope...

Day 6: Col de Valcornera to the Rifugio

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After a difficult ascent to this pass at 3,100 meters, we skated down a steep snowy slope. The pictures do not really convey how steep and ...

Day 7: Down from Rifugio Perucca--Vuillermoz

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We left Rifugio Perucca at about 2,900 meters crossing late snow and descended all the way to the valley floor at 1,900 meters, to catch a b...

Views of the Matterhorn from Val Tournenche, Italy

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Even as we descended into the Val Tournenche, the upper reaches of the Val d'Aosta region of Italy, the Matterhorn remained shyly hidden...

Day 8: Crossing Theodulpass and Glacier

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At 3,300 meters/10,500 feet, Theodul pass and glacier were the highest point on the Tour of the Matterhorn.  We were lucky to find two frien...

Views Around Gandeghuette, (3,000 meters)

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The slopes around the Matterhorn have extensive lifts and ski slopes. Gandegghut, below, is perched below the highest ski lift in Euro...