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Mt Fort Pralong tour
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Busier today in Verbier so went for a tour. Tried out a route over the Fenetre d'Alleves and down to Pralong

First had to get down backside of Mt Fort first.... The main chutes are now suicidal. Only way is skiers left


Gentle skin up round Mt Calme


Good view of the all the backside options of Mt Fort


Over the Fenetre d'Alleves and into some lovely shaded powder


Stayed hard right and found this very nice couloir


Snow starts to transform as you get lower. Some sporty death crust here (where's the Kuro's when you need them...)


And this is starting to melt


The Barrage des Dix on the left


Down the path to Pralong with the Valais in the background - good snowplough practice!


The sleepy little village of Pralong


But it has a restaurant!


The prize...


Chrisandmich doing a Snowpulse ad...


Tracks on Bec de Rosses. Are they mad?


Another beautiful day in the mountains.
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Another sunny saturday, how many are there in a season!

Dont fancy the Bec much Shocked
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norris wrote:
Another sunny saturday, how many are there in a season!


A few too many at the moment!

The Fenetre d'Alleves is visible here centre left of the picture - down from Mt Calme, past the Col de Prafleuri and then just round the next small peak. A 1 hr skin from the back of Mt Fort.
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Great photos as always!
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Nice pics. Good to see your still getting on it. Always fancied that tour. Looks like a nice mellow not so busy route. Did you take the route of the path via Mayentset on the descent?
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scottishskier wrote:
Nice pics. Good to see your still getting on it. Always fancied that tour. Looks like a nice mellow not so busy route. Did you take the route of the path via Mayentset on the descent?


I think so. Stayed high left as the valley floor came into sight. Longish zig zagging path which drops down onto the road about 1km out of Pralong and then ski down the "pavement" into the village. In good snow you wouldn't need to take the path. It's a really nice tour for a shortish skin. More bang for your bucks than Rosablanche.
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Hi BobinCH. Looks mellow. Building up my ski legs ski in Leukerbad today - hope to join you on a tour soon. wink
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Nice, that's one of the ways down there we didn't do, saves on the short skin out of the combe du prafleurli late in the day too. What was the way down like once below 2200m, especially getting out through the trees? Would it be easy if the snow was a bit better? Trying to contrast it to the way we went as we could have finished down that route but chose a couloir followed by a mega-bushwhack instead.
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Swirly wrote:
Nice, that's one of the ways down there we didn't do, saves on the short skin out of the combe du prafleurli late in the day too. What was the way down like once below 2200m, especially getting out through the trees? Would it be easy if the snow was a bit better? Trying to contrast it to the way we went as we could have finished down that route but chose a couloir followed by a mega-bushwhack instead.


Would be a nice ski all the way down. You skiing this season?
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Had a couple of days in Norway over new year but unless we get another mega dump in the UK that'll be it for me

Loving your Austria reports btw.
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