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The Great Aletsch glacier July 2018

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Having been to Catalonia in may and experienced whitewater rafting, the curiosity of melting winter snow and glanciers lingered well after the trip. Time for another “ mother and daughter” weekend (MODA) as we now call ourselves. A MODA weekend in Switzerland was mooted and very quickly agreed on. Pat suggested an exciting high altitude guided glacier hike of the Great Aletsch Glacier for our get together and this ticked all the boxes for excitement, a decent challenge and some bonding time. Leaving Dublin in the middle of a heatwave to hike Switzerland’s longest glacier of 23km seemed the craziest of ideas as I arrived in Zurich to meet Jane, Pat and Sarah. With some Irish “Gun powder gin” as a gift in hand, I was looking forward to starting our adventure with a touch of Drumshambo distilled gin, tonic and ice. Alas since there was no ice at Sarah’s tastefully decorated apartment we postponed the appetitive until our return. Over a lovely family dinner we checked that we
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Pontresina Ski 2017

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Pontresina 2017: Here We Come 26th December: Zurich Time to break the routine and the idea of Christmas that you h ave to be everywhere with everyone. Time to reinvigorate.  We Flew to Zurich and stayed overnight with family enjoying a delicious home cooked meal and hospitality. All set and excited for the ski pilgrimage to Pontresina. 27th December: Pontresina Drove to pontresina. There had been a snow forecast and conditions were meant to be difficult for driving through the julier pass, so we decided to book the car on the train and go through the Vereina tunnel. The vereina tunnel is a railway tunnel in the canton of graubunden in eastern Switzerland. It is 19k in length and is the worlds longest meter gauge railway tunnel. It was built in 1991 and opened in 1999 costing CHF 812m. It is a single track with passing loops. Vereina Car Train Pontresina We arrived in Pontresina and made the usual trip to Gruber sports to hire the ski equipment for 6 days
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