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Guide books: Mont Blanc Freeride vs Alpine Ski Mountaineering Vol 1
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Hi all. Looking at getting my brother a guide book for Christmas (or a week or two after Christmas based on the current postal situation). We've got a week in Ste Foy as a family trip towards the end of the season and we're intending to head out a week earlier to do some more interesting skiing somewhere vaguely nearby. There looks like there's potentially quite a lot of overlap between these two books so I was wondering if anyone knew if either one was better, and whether it would be a complete waste of time getting them both. Thanks
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

They are not really the same thing

Mont Blanc Freeride is guidebook for freeride lines ie. day tours, accessible from Chamonix and environs.

Alpine Ski Mountaineering Vol 1 is a compendium of hut to hut tours covering a very wide area - pretty much the whole of France, Northern Italy and Switzerland as far as Zermatt.

If it's a Chamonix day touring book you want, I'd also consider Anselm Baud's Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles Rouges.

That being said, since being a FatMap subscriber I look at guidebooks a lot less.
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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?

Thanks. This is actually good news as we're currently tossing up between whether we want to do hut to hut stuff or if we just want to base ourselves somewhere and do some day tours. I ended up just getting both as he kind of likes that sort of thing anyway, even if it doesn't actually getting much direct use. Fatmap might be something to look into for his birthday in march though.
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Another vote for Baud's book of death. After umpteen busy seasons I have hardly scratched the surface.
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