Ski-runs in the high Alps . that inwinter none have yet visited on ski the valleys ofBagnes, Entremont and Ferret, with the exceptionof a party about which I may have something to sayin another chapter. The writer of these lines has,therefore, an excellent chance of introducing a novelfield to the British ski-runner. He spent an eight-days week in March, 1907, upon a raid in thevalleys above named, ranging from one to another onski, with two friends, one of whom was a youth ofeighteen, and the other a well-known Valaisan ski-runner, Maurice Crettex, from Champex. A knowledge of topography bein
Ski-runs in the high Alps . that inwinter none have yet visited on ski the valleys ofBagnes, Entremont and Ferret, with the exceptionof a party about which I may have something to sayin another chapter. The writer of these lines has,therefore, an excellent chance of introducing a novelfield to the British ski-runner. He spent an eight-days week in March, 1907, upon a raid in thevalleys above named, ranging from one to another onski, with two friends, one of whom was a youth ofeighteen, and the other a well-known Valaisan ski-runner, Maurice Crettex, from Champex. A knowledge of topography being absolutely essen-tial to ones safety in High Alp ski-running, even themost expert runner will take care that at least one ofhis party possesses that knowledge to runner who takes the risk of wasting some of hisstrength—or time on short winter days—upon errorsin direction, is little short of a fool. Owing tosteep slopes and complicated ground, the slightesttopographical mistake may cause a fatal waste of. FERRET—ENTREUONI—BAGNES.(RtpioducUon nu<lc wilb julhorisjUon o( Iht Swiss Toposrapbic ScrvU*. j6Aij.) AIGUILLE DU CHARDONNET 183 precious time—and of a mans useful energy, the fundof which is limited in a town or plain dweller, whoonly occasionally tries his physical endurance inwinter at a high altitude. A raid on ski is not a raid if it is interrupted bystress of weather. It is then best described as acommonplace misadventure. The intending raidermust trust to chance, assisted by a careful reading ofthe daily reports of the weather issued from reports now very usually distinguish betweenHigh Alp weather and the conditions prevailingduring the same periods in the lake and river there is a scientific prospect of fog over thelakes and rivers, this means that the air is still, andthat the sun shines upon every mountain rising abovefour, five, or six thousand feet, as the case may wind arising from north or east will not
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