In article , John Mason
wrote:
Thanks for your comments and thanks for the webpage links - I had
already read it from doing a search of the web; I found your site very
useful, particularly the altitude profiles.

I must get around to adding some more of my tours. I've been into the
Oberland twice, and also traversed the Grande Paradisso for example.


We have already discussed what might happen if we can't cope and it
seems that alternative tours may be not just an option but the
preferred option.

That is a very good attitude. There are plenty of exhilarating
opportunities to be had touring in the alpine region. One of my
favourite areas is currently the Vanois. One advantage of avoiding the
Haute Route is that many of the other tours take in much less crowded
and more friendly huts, often with great cuisine.


If I can paraphrase, I think you are saying that if we are fairly fit
then it most likely will be skiing ability and weather/snow conditions
that may spoil things?

John


Yes that is a reasonable summary. The worse the snow and weather
conditions, the bigger the consequences of poor skiing ability.

Mike Clark, URL:http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~mrc7/
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