Anyway... We got ready and left for Brevent... well until we realised his £600 board had completely delaminated and was useless. After a trip to LOCAL to rent a replacement we headed to Concept to try and get it repaired. The tech kindly told us it was completely f**ked and that any repair wouldn't hold.
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| Hmm... £600 board shouldn't look like that |
We finally got up Brevent and sampled the rather poor snow. Harsh sun and high freezing temperature had ruined everything. A quick lap of Bozon and Cornu confirmed this. Piste fine. Off-piste refrozen lumpy crap. We were on the magic carpet chair back home when we saw a guy hit the features just above the track from the Brevent bubble. The snow looked OK so why not.
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| Our playground of late (Midi) poking through |
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| Over the rockband |
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| Untouched lines left of photo |
It was powder... Oh yes! Few nice little hits and lines. Awesome. We headed down for lunch.
In the afternoon we headed up to Le Tour as Euan had (rightly) heard good things about the natural features. We made it up to a complete whiteout. Even I, having skied Le Tour endlessly, almost got lost on the traverses. We made it round to Tête de Balme and on the way up the vis closed in again. Home for beers.
Not sure those two tiny lines counted as a powder day, instead it was the first poor snow day since January. It's a hard life in Chamonix... Unlucky cousin. At least we have something to look forward to tomorrow.
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| Tomorrow... YES! |
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