Headed out today to check out what fell yesterday during our rainy day adventure on the glacier, and I have been wanting to ski this line since my second day in chamonix, its called Col du Floria, and it sits just outside the Flegere boundary line, you acccess it via a short skin and bootpack that probably takes about an hour to get to the top of the line from the index lift. Clive hadnt skied this line either so he was stoked to go bag a new one...even if it is mellow. we skied the gully under the big yellow arrow. This is a photo from the back side of Col du Crouches.
Here are the boys skinning on up there....
Rylan getting into the good work on the bootpack. This snow was a bit saturated and wierd, but we only spent a few minutes in it thankfully.
Clive fighting the good fight!
A look back down the bootpack at Flegere and Chamonix, with the Argentiere Glacier and Grand Montets across the valley
The ski down was fun, heavy pow on a good base layer, the chute we skied had some really wierd angles in it, so it was hard to ski fluidly...I heard a rumor that straightlining this run is a classic badass thing to do in cham, so maybe when we get some visibility Rylan will go back and pin this thing... The lower bit of the run down to the basin was great. Smooth pow over a nice smooth surface, made for fast skiing! 
We skinned for about another hour or so to regain the Col du Berard, and took the train home from Le Buet. Clive is the man and carried a 1.5 liter bottle full of beer for the train ride. Forget tea, beer is civilized. For the mean time we can look at Clive's awesome headband tan, and giggle.
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