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TR: Called to the Barres
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

A barre is a long chain of cliffs in French. Above the small ski resort of le Granier in the French Chartreuse (closed since mid march) there is an imposing cliff band with some vertiginous couloirs that lead down. A summer path passes this way. The kind of trail you avoid when damp and where you have to do some small scrambling to climb or descend. It also gets skied on a regular basis. Normally activity is intense after snowfall when fresh powder attracts skiers but the open west face is avalanche prone.

I decided to take a look under more stable spring conditions. It doesn't look too hard from the car park



after a climb up the pistes (450m of vertical for this tiny resort) and the woods above you get onto the west face below the couloir complex



it looks pretty flat, but not from the top

(photo taken earlier in the day)

The descent is between 50 and 35 degrees



even the small tree in the center is leaning in to the slope Smile

good snow conditions in the couloirs and on the face



and a chance to do some graffiti on the slopes



full trip report here: http://pistehors.magneato.org/mont-granier-from-tencovaz-route-683.htm

It is hooning it down today so a chance to catch up on some stuff around the house. 20cm on the roads at l'alpe d'Huez and Chamrousse this morning. Going to be an epic transfer for some.
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Oh, very lovely. Jealous!
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