 Poster: A snowHead
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Looking to learn more about ski touring in the Mont Blanc area in prep for a tour or two in the coming season. Any recommendations as to best books that cover the area?
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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've used:
The Vamos guides - very clear and small enough to slip in a pack (there is an off-piste and touring option)
The Lionel Tassen & Pierre Tardivel Guide to the Mont-Blanc area - most descents are pretty extreme, as one would expect considering the authors but still worth a look.
Alpine Ski Mountaineering Vol 1 - Western Alps by Bill O'Connor -Cicerone Press - quite a lot of information and some basic touring/skimo advice
I was also given a large coffee table guide as a present with amazing photography (not at home and can't remember the title, sorry) - Every page has a route description, map and wonderful photo of the main slope. Most are day tours. It basically shut me up for the whole of Christmas day. Maybe someone can help with the title.
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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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Nice thanks Buddy, will get googling those books, I quite fancy the Anselme book, but v difficult to find. I rkn i'll start with Alpine Ski Mountaineering vol.1.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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For normal punters visiting cham the vamos off piste and touring books are probably best option for orientation.
The anselme baud book is out of print. Great coffee table read, of questionable benefit to non extremos.
It doesnt sell for the inflated prices on amazon
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For normal punters visiting cham the vamos off piste and touring books are probably best option for orientation.
The anselme baud book is out of print. Great coffee table read, of questionable benefit to non extremos.
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I have both and totally agree
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I love going "Au Vieux Campeur" in Albertville and browsing the section with loads of walking and climbing routes, and maps. Just looking at them makes you feel gnarly. Then I buy something like "Easy family walks for 3 year olds in the Beaufortain".
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<offtopic>
@pam w, I was pleased to come across a book on UK wild runs last weekend, and see that I'd done 2.5 of them (one regularly)!
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I have the old Vamos Chamonix off-piste guide which is excellent and I'm about to replace it with the newer Vamos Mont-Blanc off-piste guide.
I also have the Anselm Baud book of death - which is interesting to look at
I plan to buy the Vamos Mon-Blanc skit touring guide shortly
There is also one other book not mentioned here that I picked up last season which is: Mont Blanc Freeride by Domenico Giusti and Giorgio Passino (in Italian, French and English) which is pretty good though not so easily pocketable (I usually photograph the route pages on my phone). It also has a rather nice intro which begins "In the infinite variety of boots, skis and accessories, is maybe the case to bring also a pinch of good old fear. It doesn't take a lot of space and you can squeeze it until it almost disappears...."
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