A few guys from the Alpine Club in the UK came out for a couple of weeks to ski tour in the area. Conditions were good and quite a few good tours were done, including a first descent of a couloir off the Pic du Jaillon.
There are lots of pictures to come soon, so watch [...]
Filed under: Photo on March 6th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 peak [...]
Filed under: Photo on January 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
I can see this slope out of the kitchen window and my office window so it has been drawing me towards it for some time now. I had a go at it last year but the road was snowed in far down the valley and I didn’t allow myself enough time. Today the road was [...]
Filed under: Photo on November 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Pic de Chalanches is a great early season tour when the conditions are right, and today they were right. Later on in the season the skiing can be as good, but the approach is much longer and harder as the road from Villard up to lac de l’Orceyrette will be blocked with snow adding some [...]
Filed under: Photo on November 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a great line with over 1500m of descent, with around a thousand of it being in a spectacular 45 degree couloir. We used the lifts at Pelvoux which for 5 euros will take you up the first 1000m leaving an easy skin up to the top.
The first twenty meters needed to be [...]
Filed under: Photo on February 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
