Fri 28th: So we got pretty drunk on Weds/Thursday and big cuz made me paromise to not wake him up without eight hours sleep (fair enough as I was knackered too). Couldn't find anyone to go up the Midi with so eventually we got up Brevent to fresh snow! Oh yeahhhh.
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| The cause of our laziness |
First run we did the same couloir below C
ornu as we did last year which was fun. The couloir was fine, but tight on my 193s. The sluff at the bottom was actually nice and soft. Unfortunately the usually awesome, playful runout was crap. Any snow below about 2200m was crap. Bit of an anti-climax.
Oh well. Dropped off the back to see if we could find different conditions. Nope, snow was ruined even higher up (weird?) Did a few more runs and the vis closed in, similar to Weds, so we called it.
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| Morning sky... stunning |
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| Euan finding some good snow |
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| Top of the couloir |
In the afternoon we chanced our luck up the Midi, hoping it might clear. I really wanted to show him it even if we couldn't ski it. Got up but the visibility was awful. It did make it quite impressive though being blasted by a blizzard on the open platforms. Discovered that Euan had vertigo so made him look over all the precipices and tried to get him in the glass box. The second he wasn't so keen about. Probably a good thing we didn't do the VB as getting vertigo on the arête might be interesting... On the way down the vis opened up slightly which was nice. Got a real sense of what you were on.
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| Not too near the edge... |
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| Beers up the Midi |
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| Trying to get Euan in to the Glass Box |
Went for a quick walk around town, some awesome beer and a humongous plate of Nachos at MBC. Nice end to a good three days. Cheers Euan!
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| Biggggggg plate of nachos |
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