Day Touring in Andorra - winter 2020-21
As an ESC member living in Andorra, I was able to keep touring through the winter with local friends, despite all the closed ski resorts and travel restrictions. Here are a few photographs from that strange Covid winter.
Added 25 Jun 21 by CathyOdowd
The snow came but the ski resorts remained closed. So the ski tourers took over. (Grau Roig, Andorra)
The Xmas holiday week was very subdued but the snow was good! (Ransol valley, Andorra)
New Year's Eve ski touring. (Sorteny valley, Andorra)
Wind-blown powder early in January. (Ransol valley, Andorra)
The ski resort of Pas de la Casa closed in the distance, and sales of ski touring gear booming. (Roc Mele, Andorra)
Fresh snow early in February. (Rialb valley, Andorra)
Great views, awful breaking crust. (Rialb valley, Andorra)
Master class in trail breaking. (Cebollera valley, Andorra)
The lack of big storms is becoming evident in the thin base low down. (Incles valley, Andorra)
High above the Arcalis ski resort, on the Andorra / France border.
Spring snow in February, with the sand layers showing through from the huge Saharan dust storms. (Casamanya, Andorra)
The snow isn't great but the canal are coming into condition. (Cirque du Pessons, Andorra)
As the newer snow melts away, the sand layer comes back to haunt us.
Welcome new snow late in March. (Ransol valley, Andorra)
Country borders open again. Couloir hunting in the Cadí mountains in Catalonia.
The longest couloir in Andorra - Canal Alt. 900m down, off the summit of Andorra's highest peak, Coma Pedrosa.