I headed up to Font Sancte with John Mallery today to have a go at the central couloir on Font Sancte. The weather forecast was good and the weather seemed to be spot on both at Guillestre and at the car park up at Ceillac. From the top of the lifts, looking over at the [...]
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On a recent post on the Snowheads forum there was some discussion of what the typical angles of black and red runs are. I have gone to the effort of measuring all of the black runs at the Vars-Risoul ski area using my mapping software and calculating the angles of them. Here are my results… [...]
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I had a go at this line on the NE face of la Cube at Ceillac today. It wasnt all that great, too much steep combat skiing in the trees for not much gain. There were a few nice turns in the upper section before the gnarly bit. Then there was quite a bit of [...]
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I headed up to Ceillac for a ski today and to check out the area. It is an awsome spot. There is a lot of good off-piste, easily accessible by the lifts, with not many people skiing it which is good. Right in the middle of the resort is a ridge called the ‘crete de [...]
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