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Good thread.
Kudos on the trip.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It certainly looks an amazing adventure 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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We're not jealous yet... Well actually we are but carry on.
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Day 4: The sun was back so another big day planned. We headed back SE across the fjord to a perma-nevé valley adjacent to day 2. Early morning light pretty decent again. This time a 5am start as the temperatures were rising again.
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We had to fight for this one: several hours of hiking, skinning and bootpacking to reach our top out at 1138m. The terrain amid the old glacier was pretty awesome: this peak had been carved out by a long-gone ice sheet. For scale, the blip to the right of the snow-rock interface, just above the foreground horizon is Jason skinning up ahead.
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Views from the summit were fairly spectacular
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@offpisteskiing surveying the emptiness.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Although the peak has most probably seen footfall, the couloir below it certainly hadn't. The only recorded skiers in the valley had been an Italian group who had explored the glacial bowl but not the peaks surrounding it. Team selfie before bagging a first known descent
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@offpisteskiing opening the aptly-named 'Christy's Couloir': not steep but one hell of a location.
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Rian following: I managed to actually get him looking at the fjord in the distance.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Arno enjoying it very much indeed.
A traditional Greenlandic naming ceremony was held that afternoon back at base. It involved a reindeer pelt, a pair of moonboots, a reindeer hoof, a sea eagle skull, a pair of sea eagle talons and some G&T. I daren't provide the photographic evidence.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Wow
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Poster: A snowHead
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I’m sticking with Christy’s Hoof Couloir 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think we need to hear about the full grimness of the hoof.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Dave of the Marmottes, I brought it home as a gift for my wife.
She was underwhelmed
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| Arno wrote: |
I brought it home as a gift for my wife.
She was underwhelmed |
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Wow just seen this thread, fantastic @Sharkymark,
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Amazing pics! What an experience.
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