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Tour of the Malissards
 Poster: A snowHead
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In keeping with my New Year resolution and to make amends for the total inane witterage I've posted in some threads since the start of winter here is some skiing.

Yesterday we set out from the deepest Chartreuse to climb to the Lance des Mallisards via the west couloir, I skied this last year



lots of frozen tracks on the west face, couloir in the distance



bottom of couloir was certainly not skiable this year, a victim of the Christmas thaw



somehow Chris had changed jersey on the climb up



a little walk along the ridge



then skis on for a fairly steep descent



Chris checking out the trees - are they rare Cimbro pines? If only he'd open his stance he'd be able to ski properly and er, mate, 65mm skis, this is serious hard nut powder, I don't think so. Oh and oi, where's yer Airbag and Helmet?



all with a backdrop of le Mont Blanc complete with "chapeau"



tracks



a reskin to climb up to the Col de Bellefont with views over a cloudy Grenoble valley



then a ski down this slope, through the woods and back to the car.

Route description here:- http://www.trainingloops.com/lance-de-malissard-west-couloir-loop.htm Laughing


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 7-01-13 16:47; edited 2 times in total
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I'm liking that a lot. Thanks for posting, it looks a nice route snowHead
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davidof, great pics as usual dude. Bits of that look seriously steep, or were you just doing the 'Facebook fat girl' angle with the camera? Twisted Evil
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It is steepish, but not extreme. The slope we skied is about 45 degrees at the top but the first 50 meters of snow was crappy - spring snow on a breakable crust but you can traverse and take a much less steep option. Not somewhere you want to blow your first turn but not "you fall, you die" territory.

My skiing has been really crappy this season, maybe I'm just getting old or maybe too much swapping from piste to touring skis but I need a rethink.
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looks like a nice day out. thanks for posting
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What stunning photos.
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Superb, thanks for sharing.
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Very nice, thanks!
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