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| Solitude |
So Catherine Lewis and I visited the Hotel Weisshorn again. This time Catherine brought her husband Richard along too. We arrived at the hotel having warmed up by skiing around the resort of St Luc. After a good lunch at the Cabane Bella Tola we skied some horrible snow, before donning our skins and climbing up to the Weisshorn Hotel.
There was only one problem. I had become quite ill. I couldn't eat dinner and at breakfast the next morning I was far from okay. We decided that Catherine and Richard should ski back into the resort of St Luc and ski around on the piste. I would go back to bed and spend the day there.
This seemed to work because when we reconvened for dinner I had recovered my appetite and the next day normal service could be resumed.
We had a marvellous day. After a good breakfast of boiled eggs [10 minutes soft boiled at 2337m] we headed out in the direction of the Pointe de Tourtemagne. There was no one about. Plus it had snowed overnight. Not much but just enough to spruce the snow up.
The descent of the west face was spectacular and steep. Yet the snow was good and safe and we enjoyed many perfect turns all the way back to the car- some 1500meters of vertical drop.
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| Pointe de Toutemagne showing the west face descent route. |
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