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EoSB (and a bit) Touring

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I had planned a week of touring with various snowHeads as a warm up to crossing the Vanoise from Val d’Isere to Val Thorens with Topsmoke, but bad weather at the start of the second week stopped us from doing that. Needless to say, it didn’t stop us from doing a “few” other things! Very Happy
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Couloir Tempete to Col du Borgune and then Couloir "X".

The finely oiled Yoda, MrHH, and BernardC caterpillar in action heading for the Col du Bourge.
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Col du Cheviere to l'Ogere and Lac du Lou to finish things off!


The sign of a good morning!
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Couloir Bonmartin to l'Ogere (no Romanians in sight!), followed by a late skin up Peclet to descend the Ouest Face.
Bonmartin Couloir

View from the top of Peclet was a bit pants though!

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Dome de la Sache via Turia hut, almost 2000m desecent, but had to walk down a cliff side path for about 100m!
Dawn on Glacier la Gurraz.


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Climbed up the steep side of the Col Gebrolaz with Topsmoke, crossed the Col and up Mont Gebrolaz.
Looking down Glacier Gebroulaz.

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Pointe de la Reschesse from Pralognan with Topsmoke.

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La Sana with Topsmoke, descent to the La Femma hut to deliver some bread and then climb Mean Martin the following morning.
Looking towards Mont Blanc.

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Topsmoke had to depart today, but I had one more day before leaving for Germany, so for my last day of the season I climbed 1750m to the summit of Grand Sassiere on the French Italian border. Amazing views to end my season!! Very Happy

Mont Pourri and Dome la Sache

Looking into Italy

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A fantastic end to my season, many thanks to all those that I skied with, ate with and drank with at the EoSB!
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philw, nice, see you've got into the touring properly now. Did you do all that on Dukes?
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Swirly, after some touring earlier in the season with the FRs and Dukes, I decided that for skinning for any decent length of time Dynafits were needed, so have some superlight Movement Randoms with TLT Lites. (Both skis weigh less than one of the FRs!) Very Happy Although they did take a little bit of getting used to, and are good at showing off my sometimes shoddy technique!
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philw, Great pics, nice to meet you Smile
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philw, eer, stop going on about my weight! Blush Laughing
Welcome back. The photos are awesome. Lucky sod. Still, all that walking? It's not really skiing is it wink Laughing
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great stuff, Almost makes me want to bypass the lifts--- almost Smile
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philw, unless you tour on snowshoes carrying everything else on your back I won't take any weight issues seriously Laughing Seriously though I did a tour with someone who was on Coombas with Dynafits, seemed the best of both worlds he was pretty fast up and down.
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A few more pictures from the way up Grand Sassiere.



The cloud was just trying to come over the cornice and gobble us up!

Grand Casse in the distance before disappearing below the cloud.

On the way down just about to enter the cloud, thankfully armed with gps to make navigation easier and a rope to work out how steep the slope was!


Last edited by After all it is free Go on u know u want to! on Mon 11-05-09 22:51; edited 1 time in total
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Swirly, yep no real wieght worries here, just the FRs really are too heavy for anything more than a couple of hours climbing.

Swirly wrote:
philw, unless you tour on snowshoes carrying everything else on your back I won't take any weight issues seriously Laughing

What do you expect when you insist on that monoski with its bindings at a jaunty angle! Toofy Grin
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philw, Going green

I hope to join you for a warm-up in, say, EoSB '15?
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TallTone, ..... prepare ... your time is nigh .... Laughing .... EoSB 15 - 5 to be precise ..... Laughing Laughing Laughing
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BernardC, sounds like you are almost missing an evil laugh in your last post!!! Toofy Grin
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philw, it was good to meet you at the EoSB, I hope we ski together next year (and you too BernardC, of course).
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snowball, likewise, and hopefully for more than one very cloudy day next time!
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