Planning a Trip
Navigation, route planning, booking huts and so much more. Comment below and we'll build a list of resources and an aide memoir of essentials for different types of trips.
Day Tours
Starter for ten list, feel free to improve it:
Beforehand:
Try to organise a group of similar fitness, ability and risk tolerance
Get the avalanche forecast and as much info as possible on snow conditions
Plan a couple of possible routes with different aspects to take account of possible weather and snow changes
Be realistic about the distance you can cover, and ensure steepness and technical sections are manageable for all members of the group
Study the routes on digital mapping
Pack the gear appropriate for the terrain (make a list so you don't forget stuff)
Pick a start time and try to stick to it
On the day:
Recheck the forecast and pick a route, cancel if necessary
Check transceiver function and battery level
During the trip:
Keep checking the conditions and change plans if necessary
Always have a way back/down if pressing on doesn't look good
Move one by one if necessary
Multi Day Hut-to-Hut Tours
We'll be doing a couple of these for the first time this year, hopefully including the Haute Route. We'll be blogging our experiences so keep an eye out for that, but we're absolutely not experts in this, so if you are please share your knowledge.
Camping Trips
Going way out into the wilderness? Then you probably need to forward mount to a base camp Jeremy Jones style. This is what we really aspire to, in Alaska obviously, but still working up to it, so any experiences and advice you have let us know!
Hut Details
Stayed in a hut? Was it good or bad? Let us know the name,location and contact details and we'll add it.
Haute Route Huts:
Cabane de Prafleuri - No website as such. Best email contact for booking is babeth.dayer@gmail.com