right across the street from my apartment here. lucky!
Got to look off the handrail into the passerelle couloir that we all watched Glen Plake ski in Blizzard of Ahhs when we were kids...
After a few mins, gazing into what the future hopefully holds for me on the paserelle couloir, we kep t marching through the famous tunnel and into the ice tunnel that exits onto the frightening walk down the shoulder of the Aiguille du Midi...People here are wearing crampons, tied to their guides and very obviously gripped walking down this path with massive exposure on both sides. We pretty much bootskied down...its safe mom, really!
After a quick sidestep, we began skiing the Grand Envers route down the Vallee Blanche, which is the longest run i have ever skied. If you ski, you need to come to Chamonix, hire a guide and do this run, it is a lifechanger. Amazing views, crazy complicated terrain, and just so much vert.
As you near the end of the Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) glacier, the 40 flights of stairs leading you back out of the glacial canyon appear. After all the stairs, and a tram then you ride a train back into town, what an adventure!
We met some of Ciara's buddies at the bottom the the Mer de Glace, and organized a quick afternoon tour out of Flegere ski area. So we met Alex at Flegere after riding the bus, and rode another tram, chairlift, a button(poma), skinned and bootpacked our way to the Col du Floria...
Skis back on here and ski for about 15 mins below and around some amazing terrain..
Skin for another 20 mins to the Col du Berard and get a great look at a mountain called La Buet. Tons of choices to ski cool terrain on this peak...We skied some mellow north facing slopes down to a ice luge/motocross trail through the woods to another train ride out of La Buet, but not without a glass of hot wine at the La Buet hotel...awesome!
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