Stephen Senn's
Skiing (and other outdoor) Pages
Downhill Skier
An actor in a theatre of snow awaiting his queue.
The
Devil's Outdoor Dictionary
If you are looking for the Glasgow
SJS Telemarking Lurcher's
Gully 1984
Serious Ski
Stuff
The serious links below are
highlighted in blue. They are external
to this site. The links highlighted in brown
are to other pages at this site.
In addition to enjoying
most forms of skiing actively I am also an armchair skier. If you want to know
about World Cup Skiing then this a
good site.
My skiing has been carried
out mainly in
My first ski-tour was
undertaken at age 13 using Alpine touring equipment. At my school, Aiglon College , this formed a regular part of
the winter activities. Since then I have toured extensively in the
I lived in Scotland
1978-1987 (returned to Scotland in 2003) and became an enthusiast for
cross-country ski-touring after having gone on a ski-tour with Dave Dytch and
Raymond Simpson in 1982 in which Raymond, with Nordic equipment, left Dave and
me, using Alpine equipment far behind.
Raymon Simpson and Dave
Dytch on Glas Maol. View to Glas Tulaichen (with prominent corrie centre) and
Beinn A'Ghlo (left)
Together with the Tayside
Nordic Ski-Club and (occasionally) members of the Ancrum Mountaineering Club, I
climbed quite a few Munros on skis. The 1983/84 and 1985/86 seasons were
especially fine, although both started late and in 1986, although January,
February, April and even the beginning of May were excellent, March was a dead
loss. Particularly memorable ascents during my time in Scotland were those of Ben
Chonzie (1984), Monadh
Liath (1984), The Monadh Mhor
(1984), Ben Wyvis(1985)
(An exceptionally good tour in March in an otherwise barren season), The Round
of Glen Isla (1986), The Drummochter Hills
(1986), Bein Iutheran Mhor (1986), Lochnaga from Glen Doll at the end of April
(1986) and Beinn A'Ghlo (1987) (exceptionally, this was carried out on
Alpine rather than Nordic touring skis). An account of a ski-tour I made in May
1982 on Tom Buidhe is given in High 6, 36, 1982.I have returned
for skiing to Scotland a few times since leaving, most recently between
Christmas 1995 and New Year 1996 where, with my wife Victoria, I had a very
fine few days ski-touring in the Angus Glens.
I have also been downhill
skiing in
My first skiing trip to
In 2000 I had a very
fine ski-touring holiday in Iceland. In April 2003 I went skiing in Canada, Lake Louise. This was mainly
downhill skiing but I did manage a cross-country tour to Moraine Lake. My most recent skiing
holiday was in Romania
but I also had a fine ski-tour more recently in Norway
I am a member of two
Scottish ski-touring clubs Glasgow Ski Touring Club and Tayside
Nordic Ski-Club
SJS on Beinn Iutharn Mhor
April 1986
Less Serious
Ski Stuff
These are various pieces
written at one time or another for High
Magazine or the Tayside Cross-Country (later Nordic) Ski Club as well
as some verse contributed by McFake.
Miscellaneous
Prose
May,
Skis and Tom Buidhe (1982/1983) (With kind permission of High Magazine .)
Ticks
in the Tables (1984) (With kind permission of High Magazine .)
The
Devil's Outdoor Dictionary
Ben
Chonzie Cross-Country(1984)
A High
Level Route Diary (1989)
Letter
from Switzerland 1991 (On tour in Jotunheim)
Letter
from Switzerland 1992 (On tour in the Rondane)
Fire
and Ice(1993)
Hardanger
Hot-Dog (1994)
Letter from Switzerland (1994)
Letter from Switzerland (1995)
Jurassic
Park (2000)
Steamy
days, steamy nights(2000)
Rovings
in Romania(2005-2006)
Land
of the Midnight Senn (2007)
SJS Telemarking in the
Cairngorms: Geal Chearn of Glen Feshie 1986
Scotty
McFake's pages
The
Ballad of Glen Shee
The
Song of the Tayside Tourer
The
Telemac
SJS Telemarking near
Geilo 1998