Jake and his son Kit joined me for three days of ski mountaineering. The weather and conditions were fabulous. This was Kit's first introduction to touring although he and his father were very good skiers.
Despite their ability, neither of them had skied in Chamonix before, which from my point of view was good because it gave me a "blank canvas" to show case some of the great day tours on offer.
On the first day we headed to Le Tour where we went through the fundamentals of avalanche safety protocol and then headed over to the point Carraye, which offers spectacular views up the Rhone valley. Returning to the resort we had a mixture of good skiing but also some challanging skiing.
On our second day we headed first to La Flegere from where we skied over to Brevent and from the summit of Le Brevent we headed to the col du Brevent and dropped off the back side. Here we hit some first rate skiing.
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| solitude. |
Our final day we again headed for La Flegere this time for the famous Col Crochue/Col Berard ski tour. It is a marvellous journey, BUT it is always busy or at least the first climb is. Generally after the first col eveyone fans out. This is what happened to us and once again we found our selves on our own.
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| Jake making his way up to the col Crochue. |
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| Jake & Kit with Col Crochue in the background. |
The challange we faced was that it was getting very hot. This meant that the snow was deteriorating and there was an increased risk of wet-slide avalanches, so we had to keep moving and get through all the difficulties efficiently. The tour conviently finshes at the Hotel du Buet which has a bar. An ideal place to wait for the train which whisked us back to La Flegere.
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