Early birds get the best
We arrived early at the parking and we were the 3rd car by the time we git back down there were 14!
Parked up at 1,900m and then boot packed for 250m or so; we could have skinned along the road, but boot packing you cut the bends (image below), so steeper but shorter, getting in front of the six or so that left before us.
All credit to Elaine who is game for such stuff.
Circa 2,300m, there was more evidence of fresh snow,w and accumulations as we climbed became better and better, so we had a pleasant and most unexpected 5cms+ for the last 300m or so.
At the summit 2,753m it was very social with a few guys who knew a good friend of mine who I’d been out with last evening, my mate had actually bought his house off the two brothers, both are Serre Che instructors from a very old famille who have been in Le Bez for many generations.
The snow was so much better than expected, and it gradually transformed from cold snow to that sweet creamy snow.
The expanse of the sector is vast and is such great fun to ski. In the image at the top of the page, that ridge is at 2,500m and there’s some great terrain we’d already skied above that.
By the time the OH took this vid the snow was lovely and creamy.
And whilst we’d had a great day, I returned to a message from a mate new to ski-touring who I had fixed up with a guide to go out with and instruct him, and he sent me the picture below and was over the moon with the conditions they too encountered, and he said they only saw 4 others up there.
