It was really windy in town today, and our crew had been talking about going for a tour out of Flegere to ski this cool line off the Pointe Alphonse Favre, but the wind had closed down the cheapest way to get there if you dont have a season pass to Chamonix. Rylan and I decided to make the long trek over to Brevent to ride a ton of lifts to get to a zone that would normally take 20 mins to get to from Flegere. But i knew there would be good snow if we could hang tough in the wind, so we went for it. After about an hour and fifteen mins of riding chairlifts, gondolas, cable cars, and a poma lift, we found ourselves at the start of the skin to cross over the Col du Crochues. We popped over and skied some chalky snow as well as frozen slush to the bottom of a couloir that acesses the ridge we needed to hit.
This is Rylan booting up the second bootpack of the day!
So stoked to be in the big mountains, learning a lot!
Here is a cool photo of Rylan climbing up to the Pointe Alphonse Favre.
I snapped a quick photo of the top, just before we dropped in. Nicely filled with a few inches of dense windbuffed snow. Yum!
The run was fantastic, stable conditions, and just steep enough to be exciting without being too scary. The Baud book says it reaches 45 degrees for a bit, and it felt about right! Down low the snow was much shallower, and yuo could really feel the frozen slush that has started to infiltrate even the most north facing slopes down low....What a great day!
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