An integral part of our training schedule has been a 'mountain phase' which involves replicating some of the work that we will have to do in order to climb Denali and Foraker in Alaska. Therefore we have been hard at work skinning and snowshoeing uphill several times a week. The most easy and accessible areas are the home runs of the pistes around Chamonix and it means that we can do this before work. They generally take between an hour/hour and a half, depending on where we go and how much we are carrying. A few days ago we decided to snowshoe and take our snowboards up the Flegere home run. It was a warm day but really poor visability and there was a constant drizzle (reminiscent of UK weather!!). This morning we again snowshoed and took boards but this time up the Grand Montets home run which is a little longer. About an hour and twenty minutes of snowshoeing through new snow (it was still snowing when we got to the top!) ensured a good workout and also a pretty cool descent back down again!
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