A long tour this one, with Benoit who I met at the CAF, plus a couple of his friends, to a very nice couloir with great ambience - running down beside the Glacier du Trient, and then down to Trient village (Switzerland). We started with the normal Col du Passon (about 700m / 1.5 hrs), then traversed across the whole glacier du tour and up to the Col du Midi des Grandes (another 500+m, 1.75 hrs). From there, down the Couloir du Pissoir. The snow was very hard work going up, quite crusty on top, and my very wide split board skis were about a hand-span wider than the thinner skin track those pesky skiers had left - they need to walk a bit more like John Wayne. So I had a lot of extra drag widening the skin track. At the very top, just as we started descending, on now really nice snow, no rocks around anywhere, I just stopped dead in my tracks and fell over - no clue to the obviously very sharp rock below the surface that just ripped by base out and exposed the wood core! Ouch. I didn't know until we got to the bottom, and therefore still enjoyed the great descent. Until I fell over the 3m frozen waterfall that is...
More pics here.
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