Crazy amounts of snow have once again fallen here in the Chamonix valley and we are once again experiencing mid winter conditions resembling more mid January rather than mid March.
Some interesting layers have formed in the snowpack over the past few days with a slightly more moist snow transported by strong winds that has created some dense and dangerous windslab on slopes of varying aspects.
Be careful out there!
Having said that today was one of those amazing days on the Grandes Montets when everything just seemed to go right. With massive queues at the bottom we managed to get through the Priority queue on the Telepherique in quick time and up on the Bochard with pretty much no one else around.
The sun broke through on our first descent just as we got to the top of the perfectly untouched Canadian bowl. A quick one on the Herse chair got us another untouched deep powder descent of the Italian bowl followed by a couple in Lavancher.
The top tickets lift was now rolling and so the afternoon session saw us hitting up some deep turns down the Lognan Glacier down onto the Argentiere Glacier, again all untracked and perfect snow.
I took a few photos on the last run and so will post them as soon as I get them downloaded. In the mean time tomorrow will be an Aiguille du Midi day and then Friday we have perfect weather forecast so the difficulty is chossing where to go!
Should be good tomorrow!
Neil.
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