Recently,
a mountain guide told me : « This ski tour is on my top ten list in the Alps ».
It makes me wondering what would be my top ten list ? How would I grade a ski
touring day and with which factors…
The
quality of the snow is for sure important. The general ambiance of the route,
and a beautiful surrounding are needed. As far as I am concerned, the most
important would be who I am sharing the day with ! So it is hard to make the
top ten list of nicest ski tour in the alps… it would be easier to make the top
ten list of best partners to go ski touring with. And for sure this whole team
will be all in !!
Our
day starts like in the last Tarantino movie. You just have to change the
« hateful 8 » by the « Joyful 7 » take the first cablecar
on Flégère and here we go for a smile competition.
We
started from summit of « Floria » skilift (2470m).
We skinned up for 250m D+ on
a perfect terrain to practice « Quick Turns ». (Never that quick with
splitboards and wide freerando skis ;)
We
arrived on « col des Aiguilles crochues » (2704m).
After a nice little descent
on north side with cold and good snow, we started climbing again on a south
couloir. Around 400m D+ with "quick turning" and "bootpacking" has lead us to
summit of Pointe Alphonse Favre (2788m).
The last 100 m are often in mixed
condition and could be a bit tricky. We used crampons, ice axe, and rope. It is
always cool to practice a bit of alpinism skills.
What
to say about the skiing down part… it was just 4 tracks in front of us, the
snow was still cold and really good. We enjoyed it … a lot.
Thank you Ena, Ness, Borko, Brownie,
Simon, Rich’… We should do it more often !
Impossible
to say who won the smile competition. but for sure we all had a great day…
That
kind of day you can easily put in the top ten list ☺
Tonio
mary@mail.postmanllc.net
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