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TR: NE Couloir of the Cheval Noir
 Poster: A snowHead
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This is one day from my recent Steep Vanoise trip with Offpisteskiing. I have so many photos I am not sure I can pull them all into a TR of the full week without blowing up the servers.

The Cheval Noir overlooks Valmorel and St Francois Longchamp. Neither at the top of the freerider's list but if you stuck a lift up the Cheval Noir, it would have quite a reputation:


Take your pick

Better pic of our line - it's the couloir right in the middle of the skyline ridge:



To get there you need to ski off the back of the Valmorel ski area from the Col des Mottets. You then have an interesting skin/climb. It was about 600-700m but quite physical. Great views compensated:



GrahamN strides out




you can see all the way to the Ecrins:



the real fun begins. chest deep in places according to bootpacker in chief, offpisteskiing Skullie







offpisteskiing enters the couloir:



i follow:



Steep!


(photo by www.offpisteskiing.com)

Paul opens up on the runout



and rounds the day off by spatulating his Gotamas on the piste back home...


(photo by www.offpisteskiing.com)

Great day out! Thanks, Simon


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 7-03-11 11:47; edited 1 time in total
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Arno wrote:
... spatulating his Gotamas
Laughing That must have been a hard hit!

Great photos.
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LOVE the 8th picture (looking down)!!
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clarky999, me too, that made me physically gasp.
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Arno wrote:
... spatulating his Gotamas


Same ski that he ripped the binding out of?

Nice photos!
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Loving the pics!
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Hurtle, funny, same pic for me only my reaction was an audible blowing out of breath, made OH look at me. Shocked

Awesome pics, Arno!
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Oh yes... they sure hit the spot. Only 6 days to go until my next snow fix so looking at beautiful photos such as these really gets the enthusiasm cranked up.
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Oooohhh, beautiful - and very good selection of shots!

No need to say I'm envious as hell...
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Damn it - you stole this line from our trip coming up!! Very nice.. Madeye-Smiley
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glad people enjoy the pics. No 8 is a great example of the camera not necessarily representing exactly how it felt to be there. there was certainly a wonderful view but it didn't necessarily feel as airy as it looks in the pic

parlor - those were they. split where the old holes were rolling eyes however, they didn't really have any bases or edges left and Paul had replacement skis with him (bindings just needed swapping over which proved remarkably difficult to arrange given that we were surrounded by big ski resorts) so not a biggie
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Awesome stuff and nice pix.
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I like Very Happy

Great pics and thanks for sharing. It does look pretty steep in that pic of you.

I really like the 4th photo... never been skiing with a light saber before but it's now on my list of things to do Very Happy
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shoogly wrote:
I really like the 4th photo... never been skiing with a light saber before but it's now on my list of things to do Very Happy


GrahamN does have something of the Jedi about him Wink
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