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EOSB: Mont Brequin via the lac du Lou
 Poster: A snowHead
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After meeting up with the guys at our hotel, les 3 Vallees on Friday we arranged to meet down at the Oxalys on Saturday morning. Finally Bernard C and I took off around 10.30am (a bit late for our tastes) for the Cime de Carron without any particular objectives. A quick stop in the lifties hut confirmed that the lac du Lou should be ok. There had been a lot of wind from the south shifting to the south-west overnight and this was continuing to move snow around in the morning. There had been about 15 cm of snow overnight. Avalanche risk 3, considerable.



After some initial confusion as to the start (and there were a lot of tracks) we dropped into the route via this short couloir. Bernard here against the sun.

Up near the ridgeline rocks were not far underneath



but things soon opened up for some gentle powder skiing



We were aiming for slopes in the 25 degree range, certainly the big open north-east slopes looked pregnant with powder.



At around 2550 meters we fixed skins and started to climb up towards the col de la vallee etroit (tight ass pass) but after 100 meters we decided to tack south to follow a low angle ridge towards the Pas de la Mas and Mont Brequin



The route up followed the rock line to the left of the tracks in the photograph. We judged this to be the safest climbing route. Around 50 (vertical) meters below the pas de la masse we stopped for timing reasons, it was now 1pm and we didn't want to climb the slopes to the summit of the Brequin due to the avalanche risk.

The ski down was on a good layer of powder with a bit more slope than previously.



We saw a lot of other groups arrive at the same time we started out descent but it is not obvious where they came from as they did not seem to have any gear with them.

This is Bernard further down the slope.



The snow turned heavier above the Lac du Lou



Bernard was keen on "powder farming"



and finally a look back up to where we had come from.



The GPS trail

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Val Thorens lac du Lou - more info here.[/url]


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Wow. Sounds and looks like a great trip. snowHead
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Fantastic photos.
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Ooo. An epic.
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looks like a nice day out snowHead
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sweet stuff.
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Many thanks to Graham and his snowheads team who are running another fantastic EoSB. I'm back home now but hope everyone is having a good time.
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Nice, who else skied with you, or was it just you and Bernard?
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davidof, thanks for that. Please don't post photos though, you might upset the locals. Wink The Wink indicates a JOKE, just so we're clear.
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davidof, nice report and pictures, we rode down to the Lac du Lou from the other side (La Masse) first thing on Friday morning, lovely spring snow by then but it was very heavy going low down.
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davidof, great photo's.

We went down twice from Carron last week. Wednesday was fantastic; light, deep and fresh tracks top to bottom. Friday was much firmer, but with some nice pitches in there still.

On Wednesday we walked out accross the lake to finish, but by Friday it looked a little damp so we decided to skirt around.
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davidof, .... great trip & what a lovely day ... Very Happy

.... will report on the others when time allows. At present I am busy 'paying' for my season. Mrs BernardC, has a list of 1037 jobs for me to do ...! I have just completed Job No. 5, so I will be paying for quite some time .... Laughing

.... here are a few of mine from that day.....









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davidof,
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We saw a lot of other groups arrive at the same time we started out descent but it is not obvious where they came from as they did not seem to have any gear with them.


You can work your way along the ridge to the Pas de la Masse, generally starting on L (Combe sans Nom side) then back right after a bit then crest and L...fairly obvious when you go along. Short sections of side-stepping or booting...
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