Canyoning shows you some beautiful geographical locations but is nonetheless a dangerous sport. Make sure to practice jumping from lower heights before trying an eight meter jump. A via ferrata friend injured herself. It brought back flashbacks from another canyoning trip I never want to experience again. For that reason I am questioning whether I will go canyoning again. [flickr-gallery mode=“photoset” photoset=“72157627484493352”]
the Rocher de Naye via ferrata is a fun via ferrata which takes about 1hr and a half to complete. I went today with some glocals friends. It went well and everyone got to the top. I did not take the difficult stretch this time. I will do it in full in a few weeks. What is interesting about this via ferrata is that there are more technical bits. You need to reach at moments, find higher footholds to progress.
La Tour D’ai in Switzerland is a great opportunity to look across to the Canton de Vaud and the Lac Léman. From here you can look at several canton. The via ferrata has a nice little walk to the base. At this point you start the climbing. It’s an easy aerial via ferrata. [flickr-gallery mode=“photoset” photoset=“72157627299831715”]
About two weeks ago I explored this via ferrata with friends. It’s a nice one worth the visit. In particular notice how close we got to the chamois. [flickr-gallery mode=“photoset” photoset=“72157627407235074”]
A few weeks ago I explored the Via Ferrata du Moléson and these are the images I came back with. [flickr-gallery mode=“photoset” photoset=“72157626944582830”]
La chapelle D’abondance is a nice via ferrata split into three parts. The first part is not so hard, the second part is harder and the last part is meant to be very hard. The walk from the parking to the first section is short at around 15 minutes. The via ferrata itself took about 2hrs going with people whom had not yet practiced this sport. We did experience rain on this visit to the via ferrata so some of the rocks were slippy, as were the cables.
I went to Fort L’écluse again this weekend. This time was different as I went after a work shift. The views were still good. [flickr-gallery mode=“photoset” photoset=“72157626705656121”]
Today I explored the Via Ferrata near the Fort D’écluse. It is an easy 30 minute drive from Geneva therefore can be done in the morning before an evening shift or in the afternoon after a morning shift. As a side note you can see the TGV coming into and leaving Geneva. [flickr-gallery mode=“photoset” photoset=“72157626620791854”]
I installed Asphalt 6 on the macbook air and the game is easily playable. I like this game on the iphone 3GS and Iphone 4 and have spent many hours playing on both mobile devices. Now that it is finally available on laptop/netbooks like the Macbook Air there’s another platform on which to have fun on. One of the nice features is the larger screens, the ease of control and the extra information you can absorb from such a large screen.
Skiing images from last year.
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