Briançon - Puy Saint André

In the weekend we headed up to the mountains for a chilled out weekend. The snow dumped heavy the first night, even with specialised tires we couldn't get up to our accommodation. at about 3mph we tried edging up the mountain but eventually we found ourselves going backwards more than forwards. Despite encouraging words over the phone to get out and walk, we decided to slowly reverse down and retreat to a hotel.

The next day when the mountain was clear we made it up... oh my *** This place was amazing!

I'm going to invest in a little travel tripod as the view is incredible.

I tried my hand on night time star trails but without reciprocity failure (like the good ol days with film) the images would over expose! Now I see it is a recognised problem and so Canon bought out a Canon 5dII N (the N is for Night). Anyone with a spare few grand??

Here are some shots I got whilst not hurtling down a mountain on a piece of plastic or being escorted off the slopes by snow mobiles....