Here is a cool photo of Alex touring up just past the Lacs blancs hut. Skinning on this route was pretty easy, nice grippy snow and a great skin track.
A view just above the last lake in the meadow, its crazy how deep the gullies these lakes are in are.
Here is a photo of my awesome french touring lunch, baguette with Saucison Sec du Porc, beaufort cheese, and a slap of moustard. So Good!
From lunch at the top of the big basin up to the col, you bust out another 8-10 kickturns on a pretty steep skin track, and get ready for a super moderate rock traverse, probably 3rd class...But its nice to have some gear and a rope b/c of the exposure,.
Here is a photo of the crew rock traversing and Alex starting up the snowy step.
Thanks boys for the sick new touring boots. The new Tecnica Freemountain Cochise boot is the best boot ever made. Shreds steep chalky snow, pow, corn, tours like a dream, and even crushes on 3rd class rock!
After everyone gathered on the col, we setup a rappel off an old but solid pin and a nice shiny piton, to head down the backside of the col. If people didnt rap here all the time, the terrain is steep but skiable, but really beat up from people clunking down it w/o skis on...
Once we got to the backside of the Col we were rewarded with some pow skiing, i got too carried away with skiing to stop and take photos, i will try to steal some of ciara or alex's photos of us skiing the awesome snow!
This tour puts you out at the town of La Buet, similar to the Croches-Berard traverse that i did for my first tour in Cham...
All in all this is a super approachable and beautiful tour with just enough spice in it to be interesting without being scary, the Anselme Baud book says it has about 900m of uphill travel and 1600m of downhill and that matched up to my alti watch....Loving it here!
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