So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
@horizon, ah, I was just trying to decide whether it was actually you having your ear licked. You look as though you were enjoying it.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Hurtle wrote:
@horizon, ah, I was just trying to decide whether it was actually you having your ear licked. You look as though you were enjoying it.
I've known this chap for 29 years and he chooses to show off his love for me now! In my defence, I did not know what was going on (and there was no actual ear-licking involved )
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If you're not ski fit then La Grave takes no prisoners.
When we used to go for our "weeks" trip by day 3 we were hobbling down the stairs with stiff legs
Not too sure my body could cope with a six day trip now
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@Weathercam, exactly my experience on my first visit there, except it was day 2 of a long weekend
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
@BobinCH, are they all iPhone pics? They have come out very nicely!
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.
Awesome pics, video clips and routes.
How steep is the skiing? (seen reports saying La Vaute is 45 Deg others say 55 Deg )
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
@DB, I don't reckon La Voute hits a genuine 45 degrees. I'd say max 42-3. In good snow it's fine. In bad conditions, it's 1000m of no fall squeaky bum skiing.
Nice photos, Bobin. Looks like you have really scored with the conditions.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
kitenski wrote:
@BobinCH, are they all iPhone pics? They have come out very nicely!
Mine are but @Horizon does some funny stuff with a huge camera and supercomputer and the results are stunning... Think these are his day 2 from Pelvoux
Couloir écossais
Bob
Pete
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
DB wrote:
Awesome pics, video clips and routes.
How steep is the skiing? (seen reports saying La Vaute is 45 Deg others say 55 Deg )
Don’t know as we did Orcieres droites in the end due to traffic at the Voute rappel. And then Chirouze. There was nothing over 45 degrees but one section near the bottom of Chirouze was very hard packed (rain a few days previously) and we took very carefully. A fall here may have ended very badly!
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
And this is some wild country. Excuse the bad language but this really shook me up...
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?
Great pictures. But it doesn't have to be like that. There are much easier ways to get down. And you still get a wee taste of the majesty of the place.
Day 2 was a touring day to Pelvoux in the Écrins National Park. What a place!
Target was Couloir de Rouay. Phyt a couple groups ahead of us so turned to plan B - couloir des Écossais
Bit spicy on the entry
Atmospheric
Pete the guide
Testing a new technical binding design
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
@BobinCH, did you take the drag up first?
and
BobinCH wrote:
Good place to have a guide. Otherwise, you need some good mountaineering skills.........
Or just be very lucky when accidentally going past the point of no return and end up doing a road route and manage to get down without the need for a rope
This was TEN years ago April 10th and as you can see you can still score great conditions, plus it's nowhere near as busy that time of year and mid-week, and we were privileged to be some of the first people to ski a new route, and there was only one way to cross the river back then
See yesterday there was an avalanche set off by a serac breaking off.
Les secouristes sont ensuite partis sur deux avalanches, pour des reconnaissances avec le maître-chien. La première à Molines-en-Queyras , à la combe Crose. Aucune victime à signaler. Tout comme dans les Vallons de La Meije. Une avalanche de séracs tombée du Râteau a atteint le bord des vallons classiques, sans faire de victime.
That's why if skiing below there you don't hang around to take pics as per the vid below, and there are quite a few vids of similar avalanches.
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Merde
After all it is free
After all it is free
Loved La Grave last year. However, I stayed with Skiers Lodge on the 1 week guided package - and found the experience quite frustrating. The guide was a super keen American and seemed very experienced, but he was always trying to fire up the stoke (as it were) for skiing mellow powder.
He would always seem to take the less interesting and easier option despite it being a strong group. I found it tiring to keep asking to go on steeper stuff and end up skiing mellow powder through the trees yet again. That's not what I went to La Grave for! In the end I hired a private guide for the day on the last day and skied a couple of the couloirs down to the road with him (not La Voute but 2 other less busy ones in the same area! Pretty sure one of them was Orcieres de Droites as above). That was a great day
I was probably just unlucky with my group/guide that week.
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BobinCH wrote:
Testing a new technical binding design
Was it a touring binding (if so which) and was it the whole heel piece or just the brakes that needed 'modification' ?
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@Weathercam, was that in addition to the one on Saturday at 16:30 - see video above. The debris covered the Vallons tracks
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And you still get a wee taste of the majesty of the place.
