In January we had some unusually cold weather in Antalya. It even snowed (twice!) down below Geyikbayırı in the camps where the climbers stay, something that hadn’t happened in years. Guillaume, Seb, and I took advantage of the conditions and got out for three days of skiing near Antalya.
One first excursion was to Ala Belen, driving up the road toward Feslikan Yaylası. We got up to the butcher shops below the curves where the road is really steep. The ice forced us to park there and start our skinning through the houses of the yayla (Narpızlı Yaylası, according to openstreetmap). At the car I thought there was no hope of good snow because we were so low, but it turned out to be surprisingly good, especially lower where the wind hadn’t hit the snow so much.
