Spending a few weeeks back home........

Following a great week in Egypt I headed back home for a few weeks, catching up with friends and family, and a big party weekend for Gav & Hayley's weeding:

Red Sea - Egypt

It's Sunshine Time!

It's time for some sunshine!

Monday 7th May I headed out to the Red Sea, beautiful weather.......!!!

Ischgl Closing Party

On Saturday morning I left Chamonix and headed to Ischgl for the end of season closing party - what a huge party it was!!!

3 days of great fun had by all.......!!!

Next Stop Chamonix!

Following a week at home, which was very nice, it was time to head out to Chamonix for a weeks ski touring with Mountain Tracks and my mate Paul.

The main goal was to summit Mont Blanc, however, it soon became clear that this was not going to happen due to the weather! A huge dump of fresh snow had fell the week before I arrived and it continued to snow when I got to Chamonix.  Add to this high winds and unstable temperatures and the avalanche risk was way too high!

However, fresh snow means another chance to ski some pow! The weather cleared on Sunday and we had a great day on the Grand Montets......

Fresh tracks!!!

On Monday we headed up the Argentiere glacier and planned to stay the night at the Argentiere hut at approx 2800mtrs. We skinned up the glacier, past the Hut, and headed up the Glacier des Amethystes to the Col du Tour Noir.
Following this we skied back down and headed for the hut for the evening.

Paul pointing out our destination!

The steps down from the top lift

The first views........



What a great day!!!

The route up the glacier

The Argentiere hut (middle left, protruding out from the rocks)

The following morning we awoke to heavy snow and high winds! The ski back down was interesting to say the least.........

Luckily for us we had Klemen, our mountain guide, to lead the way down, navigating around the huge crevasses in the near zero visibility, high winds and deep snow!!!

Klemen Gričar - IFMGA Mountain Guide (in the sun the day before)

Canada and North America done!

Unfortunately it's time to leave Canada............

Had a fantastic time, met some great people and skied some awesome terrain! It's truly been a great couple of months!!!

Back home for a week and then it's off to Chamonix to climb Mont Blanc!

Great Cities!

Following Tofino we headed for Victoria for a couple of days, which was very nice, and then on to Vancouver.  Vancouver was great, but the weather was not kind to us, bloody pi**ed down for 2 days!
For easter weekend we decided to hit Seattle, which turned out to be fantastic!

I think Seattle is one of the best cities I have ever had the pleasure of visiting!!!

The view from my hotel window!

The best chocolate apples ever!

Coffee at the orignal Starbucks, a nice treat!

........and a few more pics to show just how fantastic Seattle is:

Tofino - Vancouver Island, BC

The road signs on the journey in make you a little bit apprehensive........!

However, once you are there you forget all about that, and anything else for that matter.........

A truly amazing place!!!!!!!