Thursday, July 21, 2022

BLAST FROM THE PAST … a Zermatt ski mountaineering trip

In the early 1990s I spent a fantastic two weeks with Gary, Ben, and Susie skiing some great routes during the March NCS spring break.

We took a couple of lifts up with two rucksacks each, and booted up to the unheated "winter room" of a closed hut. We had planned on climbing the Matterhorn, but we got so much fantastic snow, that except for a mixed climb up the Riffelhorn all we did was ski. And, all of our skiing was on relatively narrow three pin, tele-gear, and leather boots!

The three best memories:
- skiing the Breithorn 
- skiing the Schwarztor (and climbing Castor)
- skiing Monte Rosa (all the way to Zermatt … 10,000' vertical descent)