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Helbronner and the Toula Glacier
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After a couple of good days in Verbier we headed over to Chamonix for a change of scenery. Horizon and Irbis' last day so hoping for some more pow....

Unfortunately the clouds were hanging to Mt Blanc so viz not great. The Helbronner lift was still closed when we got there and they were talking about 50cm of windblown at the top. Harnesses on, Kuro's waxed we eventually got on the 2nd cabin up...

The couloir under the lift was loaded with fresh with none of the guides touching it so we headed round to the stairway....

Kev heading into the unknown...


A bit of light through the clouds and Horizon making smoke


Beautiful deep powpow


He's pretty handy on those Kneissel Tankers!


Snow got heavier as we descended towards La Pavilion but still super deep. Irbis on the Missions...




Kev flying on the surface....


Horizon with the helmet cam. He proceeded to turn it round...


And said catch me if you can....
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Clouds came right in at 3pm so Vallee noir too dangerous. Followed our noses back to the antipasti in Courmayeur...


Helbronner must be one of the best lifts in Europe. There can't have been more than 50 people on the mountain all day and we just lapped the 1400m vertical descent making fresh tracks all day. Noice!

Good to ski with Horizon and Irbis. Nice guys sharing our passion for powder! Until the next time.
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You didn't get down the Vallee Noir then? All looks in a lot better nick than when we did it 10 days ago Evil or Very Mad , in fact not sure why you had to use the stairs if there was a bit of snow on the ground wink .

Not the bar with the free antipasti and the sofas by any chance was it Very Happy ?
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midgetbiker, may go back on Thursday or Friday if good via forecast. Pm me with your contact details if you want to join.
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bobinch wrote:
He's pretty handy on those Kneissel Tankers!

Nice angles Smile
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Excellent weekend - and many thanks to bobinch and the Verbier sH crew for making us feel welcome and showing us around.

Here are some additional pics from the Toula glacier:

bobinch and his brother Kevin:



bobinch goes for the "serrac background" photo opportunity:



me too:



Kevin finds himself some pow:



I hope to start stitching together some video this evening, there are good bits in there!
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Looks like another cracker. horizon, you hit the double rollover of snow for a weekend trip!

That last pic he could almost be on a mono. Laughing
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those boards are ridiculous!! makes my snowboard look skinny!!
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brian, he said he's always lucky on weekend trips. I hope he comes back next weekend snowHead

Nice report, for some reason I only got your message yesterday lunchtime. Was probably for the best as I was pretty ill in the afternoon Mad
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brian, He's on 2 monos.
Swirly, how you doin today?
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RPF, feeling a lot better, think it was dehydration: hadn't really drank anything other than beer since Sunday morning Embarassed
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Swirly, I feel your pain Embarassed
After involking the no friends on a powder day rule all weekend I was to spend yesterday afternoon skiing with Treacy but met Rich on my way back so we spent afternoon practicing dropping (read as falling) off stuff with various levels of success.
I'm on good behaviour for a few days. Weather looks like snow later today prob some more tomoro.
I reckon we should aim for an early start with bobinch and Kev tomoro.
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Nice!

Helbronner has such a lovely consistent gradient on the top half. If it wasn't south facing it would be the perfect skier's mountain, I reckon.
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