Arinsal Andorra

Hi all, we had 750mm of snow on the 21st April - yippee

Randonee season is in full swing, so after the snow I decided to walk from the crest hotel to the top, yes a lone crusader making his own tracks through the deep snow. Well me and the animal tracks (It was not the Europeon Brown Bear - thank god)

It was eventful but took forever ploughing through the new stuff. I was totally stuffed by the top.

Everywhere was white, very white even the valley of death was white!!

Attached are a few pics of the area, even watched an avalanche rubble to the side of me, glad i decided not to be there! even though it was a route choice.

run back was great to the Obelix then snow got heavy, then really heavy!

due for more snow today 28.4 we shall wait and see

all the best

Marcus

First photo is of the capa, never seen it so white and check out the cornice on the ridge
Second photo is the finish line towards the Pic Negre

News from the Dingo to the prime minister in Andorra see you around the 18th but got a job in oz in the ski field place called perisher blue biggest ski fields in oz so it will be a change from andorra

Glad to hear everyone's getting plenty of skiing in, even though the lifts closed a fortnight ago. I've been to Austria to fail the Eurotest again, and I'm chilling out in Cham, doing a bit of touring and a bit of climbing. See you all in December.

Ian

How can you see the pictures?

Marcus, the photos don't seem to have uploaded properly - can you post them again, or email them to me and I'll put them up? They need to be smaller than 499x499 pixels and 50kB to work.

Sorry about that,

Ian