This year we went to the Italian Dolomites to have a go at the “Alta Via 2” also called the “Dolomiten Höhenweg”. We went in the last week of June expecting a considerable amount of old snow from the long cold winter, but to our great surprise we encountered some huge dumps of fresh snow. Consequently we » read more »
Directly after finishing our Tour des Combin we we went round to Zermatt and met up with British Mountain Guides Kathy Murphy and Cube to do some high level glacier treking & Hutting with a bit of easy 4000m peak bagging too. Our group was Roger, Patrick, Jane, Jon, Martin and another Phil. Day » read more »
We went walking in Spain for our Easter holiday in 2001, to get away from the frustration of F&M. Sarah & Vikki joined us for the first week. Accommodation and hence the location was courtesy of Sarah’s Dad; Thanks again John. Travelling to Queralbs The flight was from Stanstead (booked through Go), so we stayed » read more »
We went to the Capileira in the Spanish Alpajuras in November 2002 with Ramblers Holidays Capileira to Sportujar on GR7 Capileira to Refugio del Poqueria, via the Poqueira gorge from Trev’lez on GR7; stopped short by flooding rivers & extremely heavy rain Sierra de Mecina from Busqu’star Capileira to Pitres on GR7 Mulhacen (3479m) from a car » read more »
Author: Phil Newby
