You can awake to lashing rain drumming on the roof and think should I actually be going skiing? Certainly not in a wet soggy Chamonix. Yet investing a bit of time looking at the weather forecast in detail and the web cams and noting the word "Foehn" in the forecast always points to heading through the tunnel to Courmayeur.
This is exactly what Peter Whelan and I did. We left a grey rainy miserable Chamonix and after 11680 meters of tunnel we arrived to 20 cm of light fluffy snow.
Needless to say the skiing was some of the best so far this season, plus the sun came out and the scene was just about perfect.
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| Late afternoon and still acres of untracked snow. |
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| Skiing down towards the Peutry Ridge and Mt Blanc |
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