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 [...]
Filed under: Photo on March 6th, 2009 | No Comments »
I saw a nice looking couloir on the pic du Jaillon last weekend when I was up at Arvieux skiing with Ollie. I had a look in the book and couldn’t find it so I managed to get Hubert interested in going and checking it out. The couloir I saw is the unmarked one. Working [...]
Filed under: Photo on February 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Seb and I headed up today to have a go at this couloir. It was really cold. really really cold. That was the overriding theme of the day, the cold. We did good speed on the skin up, and in the sun it was OK, but once we got in the shade, no matter how [...]
Filed under: Photo on February 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
Headed out to Ceillac again (it is getting to be my favourite spot) with Matt to ski a nice looking north facing couloir off an unnamed peak with a hight of 2766m marked on it. The weather was a bit variable with clouds and snow drifiting in an out all day. In theory it should [...]
Filed under: Photo on February 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
I had a look down this couloir back in January thinking it looked like a good ski, tricky entrance and a small rock step in the middle. With my brother being out for a few days we decided to go and give it a go. When we got there there were some tracks in it, [...]
Filed under: Photo on February 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Photo on January 4th, 2009 | No Comments »