5 laps, 4 routes, 3 hours of Plan greatness

Tues 24th: Plan de l'Aiguille - 40cm+ soft up high. Mostly poor exits

Woke up early to work out where to ski. Plan was the choice until the website said closed for the day - what the f... OK, GM instead. I picked up Lukas and we waited outside Oskar's for 25 mins whilst he got ready. In that time I happened to check the CDMB site and the Plan said it had opened... Seriously?

We all agreed to go and check it out. How right we were. First lap we chose skier's left. It was rather good. Rather. There were only 4-5 tracks in front of us in the whole bowl and it was deep and hadn't caught the wind. We flew down, bouncing off boulders and rollers. The traverse was much better than expected (to start) and we exited in time to see the next bin leave the station.

Pillows errywhere

Lukas was having boot problems so excused himself and joined Bob. Oskar and I headed up as a duo with the intention of lapping every lift. We traversed off skier's right into the mellow terrain only stopping to take the steeper sections in turn. We flew down the moguled exit to reach the next lift. The snow was better, but the moguled exit was much longer than the traverse out.

The snow was deep enough to hit anything and everything

After bumping into lots of friends in the lift we chose skier's left again sticking to the far left shoulder. The heavy snow falling was filling in tracks and it was almost as good as the first lap. We stopped to watch the other group hitting a nice rock drop but we were too low to have a go. Silly mistake, we missed the lift by under a minute.

Fourth lap slightly skier's right found the deepest snow and the best terrain of the day. We were careful to dodge the steepest terrain and move one by one. The section we chose hadn't been skied much before and so the snow was crazy good. We lost two minutes when I clipped a root and took a heavy fall onto a large, smooth rock straight to the side of the thigh. My leg was completely dead. We lost five more minutes to an interesting rocky/shrubby section in the middle that two other skier's had scraped completely, necessitating an interesting straight-line + rock-dodging move. Then we were back to sublime powder right down to the main path. Once more we missed the lift by under a minute.

Trying to work out a way down

Probably not that way...

What we found after...

For the last lap we traversed to the next bowl over on skier's left. It hadn't seen any traffic and was in just as good condition as the first bowl. Incredible run to end on, just as good as the first. The exit was pretty poor by now and I almost managed a knee twister on a tree root. It was time to call it. Afterall I did have work in 45 mins. Amazing morning.