A week of cold snowy weather and it's definitely winter now, with snow forecast down to 1200m next week. A good time for a look back at the guiding season, or the "Summery Summary"
-Mont Blanc: 5 attempts, 2 summits, 1 via Gouter, 1 via 3 Monts route. The failures all due to the awful june weather.
-Left Edge route on Tacul in great condition
-Traverse of Pointe Lachenal
-Cosmiques Arete, 3 times(?)
-Kufner (Frontier) Ridge. Great conditions to the summit
-Dent du Géant Normal route, mixed weather so only 2 teams on the mountain
-Grandes Jorasses Normal Route
-Gran Paradiso North Face, only team on route. Good ice conditions in summer!
-Mont Blanc de Cheilon normal route, 4 times!
-La Luette twice
-Pigne d'Arolla traverse twice from Dix, twice from Vignettes
-Dent Blanche South Ridge twice, once from the winter room, only team on the hill
-Pointe Marcel Kurz north face - a great little ice route from the Bouquetins bivvy
-Breithorn, Castor, Pollux and attempt Monta Rosa, a great few days in Zermatt.
-Weishorn Traverse
-Chamonix-Zermatt Haute Route. Very mixed weather meant deserted hills.
So, a great season, plenty of good routes, no long periods of bad weather...and still some energy left for climbing "just for fun"
