Photo Journal & Trip Reports (France)

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps

January 2026 | Piemonte, Italy & Hautes-Alpes, France

Our next stage of chasing powder in the Alps in January was in the western Piemonte of Italy and the Haute-Alps of France just over the border, a region full of extensive larch forests. We scored some surprise post-snowstorm powder at Bardonecchia and Sestriere in Italy, toured the expansive terrain of Montgenèvre in France on a beautiful blue sky day, then caught another massive snowstorm at Serra Chevalier in France when there was literally too much snow to ride!

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Trekkin the Écrins — Trekkin the Écrins

July 2025 | Écrins National Park, France

In early July we embarked on a two-week trek around the Parc National des Écrins (Écrins National Park) in the French Alps. Our route roughly followed the GR54 trek, but we did a lot of extra sidetrips and detours. Along the way we stayed in alpine huts as well as some quaint villages.

This was the longest and most ambitious hut-trekking route that we've yet done in the Alps, and I have a lot of photos to share from our travels in these magnificent mountains!

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January in the French Alps — January in the French Alps

January 2025 | France

On New Years Eve, my wife Claudia and I flew to France to spend the month of January skiing/snowboarding in the French Alps! We rented a car in Geneva, drove to Chamonix, then slowly worked our way south over the next three weeks, skiing at lots of different ski areas both big and small mainly in the Haute-Savoie and Savoie regions...

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Tough Luck in the Pyrenees — Tough Luck in the Pyrenees

September 2013 | France/Spain

On the first day of September Claudia and I started walking into the Pyrenees, the great mountain range that forms a natural border between France and Spain. Our plan was to trek along the Pyrenean Haute Route as far eastward through the range as we could in the next three weeks, staying in mountain huts and occasional small towns along the way...

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