 Poster: A snowHead
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Fancy this for Easter 2025, anyone done self-guided before and can give tips on huts/routes? There are obviously several ways to skin this particular cat and we're perfectly happy navigating and booking huts ourselves, we just want to make sure we're getting the best bang for buck and personal experience/recommendations are always welcome!
Things like, this hut is nicer than that hut, this particular section tends to hold good snow etc etc would be helpful. Would probably stay in resort a few days either side with a view to taking maybe 4 days touring? Does that sound reasonable?
Thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Following this with interest, as i'd like to get in to this sort of thing a lot more, and it's fairly local to us. I see Chamonix Experience run a trip there, I know one of their guides from my Ski Instructor Off Piste module and he was great. Also see you're Chamonix based, so possibly worth talking with them, or one of their guides if you know any?
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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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Get the cicerone ski touring guidebook (Bill O’Connor vol 2). It’s a fairly straightforward tour (bearing in mind usual alpine hazards obvs).
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Hey, yeah we have the guidebook and as I say we're happy to navigate and book huts and are experienced tourers. I was just after any personal recommendations not apparent from the usual sources. Mostly things like "keep left going down from x for a good pitch", or "x hut does better food than y hut"
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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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Been in the Jamtal hut in summer and it was pretty decent. In my experience all the Austrian huts are good (wasnt keen on the Dresdener simply as it is so big & busy though it is perfectly comfortable). Sadly not my experience of some of the French ones with not so good food and rude Guardians but perhaps just bad luck, suspect poor French language skills dont help!
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If it helps at all there is a nice guy on the TGR Forum called Jrainey who lives out there and might be able to give you a few pointers.
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