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Trip Report ... La Combe de le Veliere
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Scribblings from The Tarentaise .. La Combe de la Veliere (Powder Version) (La Plagne)
March 25th 2009
Photos aren’t brilliant today and a little scarce in number as it’s fast ....
I am almost sick with hyper-excitement (Medication may be required ...
) as we jump into bowls of HUMUNGOUS POWDER ...
Permission to jump for joy, whoop & holler and shout HURRAY in an extremely loud voice ...
It’s another Francois Allemoz day, with great French friends and snowHead Sara. Cry HAVOC ... ! and loose the Powderpups ...
as we descend towards Champagny-en-Vanoise en-route to Roche de Mio. We push forwards on the chairs - urging them to greater speed in a desperate bid to reach the sommet quicker .... immediately if not sooner ...
We positively leap into the untracked couloir on the South face of Roche de Mio & although the top 20m or so is classified as ‘marginally undesirable snow’, below 20m is divine, fluffy, feathery, delectable, knee-to-thigh deep powder ... WHEE ...
We are now in La Combe de la Veliere ... and WE ARE ALONE ...
Mein Gott in Himmel ..
Snowhead Sara in silent thanksgiving prayer ...
Our private Paradise ...
I have a teensy-weensy Negative Event ... but purely intentional of course .. to explain the concept of snowHeads to our French friends .... AND I get hugged by a gorgeous French girl .... who doesn’t like those nasty boys poking fun & laughing at me ....
Look far ahead ....
Lauric & Cedric ... “I say .. I say .. “ ... or French equivalent ...
The Main Man ... “It’s very steep down now” ...
We amuse the natives and find another guide ...
.... AND I am given a Genepi toast today, to celebrate Ireland’s great, brilliant, indescribable and humungous Grand Slam victory ....
We are VERY LUCKY BUNNIES ....
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I am almost sick with hyper-excitement (Medication may be required ... 
) as we jump into bowls of HUMUNGOUS POWDER ... 
Permission to jump for joy, whoop & holler and shout HURRAY in an extremely loud voice ... 
