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TR (lots of photos): Powder in The Pyrenees

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I spend the weekend skinning in Arcalís to catch some powder and start the season in the best way..... And I manage to found it pretty easily.......

Yesterday doing some laps with a total of aprox 1100-1200m vertical "skinned", and today a bit more tired only do one run with about 700m vertical. Good way to start to fit the legs..

Lots of photos that I take today:
Portella Arcalís


Zoom:


From the base of La Coma Area (2200m)




At 2350m.


A bit more..






Arriving at the top of the lifts:


After the final slope, looking the "backside"








To the south, andorra peaks


Pica d'Estats-Montcalm massif (3140m)


Looking NE, the nice Tristania lakes (amazing couloirs to the lake.....if today I wasn't skiing alone, surely I'll be skiing that place)


To the peak (at 2750m aprox)




Cataperdís (2810m, the couloir looks nice, but not for today, and no job for ski it alone and tired)


My yesterdays turns (2 traces of more left)


Todays trace at the far right (I don't understand because the people who do ski mountaneering ski all the same place, if there are lots of powder for all, but maybe with their short and light equipment a knee deep slope isn't the best way.. Puzzled Puzzled Puzzled )


Looking at the amazing Cataperdís couloir, 300m of direct descent)


Isn't a glacier, is La Coma cirque.. Shocked Shocked


Hortell Peak


a little zoom (no!! Isn't Alaska Shocked Shocked Are The Pyrenees in November )


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AlTom,
Lovely,
Thanks very much for taking the time and posting. snowHead
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Excellent photos. Thanks for sharing them Smile
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Wow! Very Happy
Thanks very much for posting these pics, they're amazing snowHead
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Not only the pics are amazing........ more amazing is SKI IT!! Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Laughing Laughing
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AlTom, Thank You! Looks llike the Pyrenees could be the place to go this season Very Happy snowHead
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AlTom, fantastic. Thank you.
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Amazing photos Cool though achilles is going to have kittens you have uploaded them NehNeh
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AlTom, Excellent, I have spend the day burning the Respect DVD and you have been skiing that... bug..!!! wink
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AlTom, Top photos.

How low, in meters, does the skiable snow go right now?
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Pics like that will change many perceptions about Andorra. Nice job.
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AlTom, Top photos.

How low, in meters, does the skiable snow go right now?


Through the pyrenees now is variable, because in E the rain hits more higher altitudes. in the arcalis area, the snow appears in Nfaces at 1500m. At 1700m the snow is continuous, and from 1800-1900m is skiable, but under 2000m due the rain the cover is thinner. From 2000m in E-N-W faces remain powder, and from 2200-2300m uphill is really deep.
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Thanks
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AlTom,
Amazing pictures. Only 6 weeks until I also get to see the white stuff.
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Incredible, what pain not to have suitable material to do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AlTom, great photos - thanks
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AlTom, moltes gracies pel teu excel.lent reportatge, fotos impressionants Cool , els Pirineus mereixen un major reconeixement internacional.
Es una vergonya que mai he pogut esquiar aquestes muntanyes! Sad

Keep up the good work!
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I think this season, you will have reports every weekend Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil
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AlTom, moltes gracies pel teu excel.lent reportatge, fotos impressionants Cool , els Pirineus mereixen un major reconeixement internacional.
Es una vergonya que mai he pogut esquiar aquestes muntanyes! Sad

Keep up the good work!


Per cert, ets català?? Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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AlTom, Magic, and so glad about your knee. Very Happy Very Happy
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Visca AlTom i visca Catalunya ! Cool
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metalhead132, no, soc angles (i un dels meus avis era italia), pero vivia tres anys a Barcelona quan era un nen (fa mes de vint anys) i anava a un col.legi d'EGB. Sempre he esquiat en els Alps (Franca, Italia i Austria) els 10 anys des de qu' he apres a esquiar. Algun dia anire als pirineus catalans.

Parlo castella mes que catala, per que en els anys 80, s'ensenyaven quasi totes les assignatures en els col.legis en castella. Perdona les meves faltes d'ortogafia.

Please keep sending your news and reports from the Catalan/Andorran Pyrenees! It looks like it will be a good season for you! snowHead
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metalhead132, no, soc angles (i un dels meus avis era italia), pero vivia tres anys a Barcelona quan era un nen (fa mes de vint anys) i anava a un col.legi d'EGB. Sempre he esquiat en els Alps (Franca, Italia i Austria) els 10 anys des de qu' he apres a esquiar. Algun dia anire als pirineus catalans.

Parlo castella mes que catala, per que en els anys 80, s'ensenyaven quasi totes les assignatures en els col.legis en castella. Perdona les meves faltes d'ortogafia.

Please keep sending your news and reports from the Catalan/Andorran Pyrenees! It looks like it will be a good season for you! snowHead


Ok, you catalan is pretty good!!
We will keep you informed
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AlTom, wow nice one Toofy Grin Thanks for the pictures, lets hope you get plenty more Cool snowHead
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One friend send me some photos of saturday action, trying to carve some turns and made some little jumps (me in particular, and I know I have to improve my technique, but we're at the start of the season and still I felt like a "robot", not "smooth")....... bad quality photos but show some great time....Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing







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doesnt seeing photos like that just make you want to go and ski more than ever... im counting the days untill i go away - 52.
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Man alive!!!....I'm rotten to the core with sheer unadulterated envy.


Well done you.
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I like it. A thread with some fantastic photos thereAlTom,
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