 Poster: A snowHead
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Friday - expected snow didn't materialise and my choice of Pocket Rockets in the morning proved to be a dud one. Over to Verbier, right down to bottom, up and around. Back via Gentianne (spelling ?). Good at top but some serious moguls at bottom.
Saturday Vallee d'Arbi (or whatever it's called) - exciting little path/toboggan run just after the start, after that a good bowl, then it was a long bumpy path to a long flat path. Tried to ski between the Vs on the bumpy path. Snow very heavy, no fun, so I gave that up. Wouldn't rush to do again, would do the shorter variation perhaps. Absolute white out later on in which we got to do Gentianne again. Loads of powder and getting to the top fun but after that it was ski by feel. Ate my share of powder. A real kahoonas job trying to decide where to straight line it at the bottom in order to get across the flattish bit. At least I walked a little less than the others.
Itinerie at the top of Grippon Blanc. - did it Sunday morning. Great route, we were 3rd set of tracks down after a lone skier and a boarder. A lot of very light powder at top, so light you could sometimes hit the harder snow a foot below. Fantastic run, took me a while to get used to powder again. So much snow even the bumps at the end were fun, just bumpy powder. Missed the bus by 2 minutes, managed to scrounge a taxi that was waiting for another group. Lifts (slow/t-bars/drags) on way back a bit of a pain but a lot of off-piste available. Too far for the Verbier crowd ?? Will definitely do again.
I don't know if I'd wiped it from my memory but I didn't remember they stuck the orange poles on the itineries, made navigation a lot easier, well, virtually impossible to go wrong.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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666, Interesting to talk about Greppon..had it mind to tack it onto the backside of Mt Fort but never got round to it...............fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff*** will have to do something about that
Sounds good fun
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monster77
monster77
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Itinerie at the top of Grippon Blanc. - did it Sunday morning. Great route, we were 3rd set of tracks down after a lone skier and a boarder. A lot of very light powder at top, so light you could sometimes hit the harder snow a foot below. Fantastic run, took me a while to get used to powder again. So much snow even the bumps at the end were fun, just bumpy powder. Missed the bus by 2 minutes, managed to scrounge a taxi that was waiting for another group. Lifts (slow/t-bars/drags) on way back a bit of a pain but a lot of off-piste available. Too far for the Verbier crowd ?? |
The itinerie of Greppon Blanc down to Masse is a good run, and is not too far for the Verbier crowd. It is just a bit of a chase to get back before the last lift if you have spent too much time playing in veysonaz.
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OK - So I found it...
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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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JT, depending on where you are staying it is best started around 12 - 12.30 to get the most of the trip. I'm a big fan, like Vallon d'Arbi, a very mellow pitch that if you know the right line can deliver the goods for a good week after a storm...
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parlor, looked to me like 2 different options for Greppon. Part way up you can drop into a different mini-valley. Is this the one you had in mind ? I could see some tracks in that one coming from further left along the ridge somewhere. We carried on to the top and followed the poles, which from memory disappear once you hit the path, where it's pretty hard to get lost and everyone cuts the V's anyway.
Where we came out there was a bus stop and hot food campervan thingy. We passed through Mache, which you'd mentioned, quite a way down the road.
Anyway, a public thanks for the tips and will catch up with you another time.
(My other id on hold for 300 posts or so)
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FAQ
my plan was to come from Annivers but it was further than I thought by road ( I timed it from Martigny on the way to Annivers) and I didn't have control of the car and couldn't risk public transport ..and the day I had ear-marked was low vis anyway... 