Mon 24th: Not skiing in a week - record of the season - left me gagging to do something interesting. Steve, Tom Tom and I were planning on doing Cosmique couloir should the weather allow. It didn't in the morning and we didn't want to wait around. So instead TT + I headed up to Le Tour with Robyn. May have been a good shout as apparently the Cosmiques had a big queue and and big slide (heard third hand).
We got up to a pretty dense whiteout and headed up to Tête de Balme, big surprise. Snow was really good with just a tiny bit of wind-crust in places. All three of us bounced down all the little rollers and tree wells, no breaks. I was determined to do something decent as it'd been so long since I'd skid. Chose a nice drop and hit it. First wipeout of the day. Almost made it but my DINs popped.
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| Low light snow |
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| Tom Tom and Robyn killing it |
Determined I tightened my DINs up to full (12 on Barons) and went for it again next lap. Let my core go but I rode out - pretty happy.
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| Boom |
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| Tom Tom's stitch |
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| View from the chair |
After this we just lapped the chair over non-stop for the next three hours. Met up with Aiden and some of the other boarders for a few runs. All of us were going for it, hitting everything of interest. There were a lot of falls all around. Definitely the most falls I've had in a long time. I blame the GoPro pole. I twisted both knees (not too badly) and ended up bending ANOTHER set of poles...
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| Sun poking through on our tracks below |
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| Not again... |
We headed back for a coffee and sitting down we realised we'd had enough. Better to call it before anything stupid happened. Powder, great company and another awesome day.
Cheers TomTom for the great photos.
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