I've just started a BC Intro week, first day at Le Tour which was pretty tracked in all the usual back bowls but not so bad and we finished the day with a great run down from the Tete du Balme down to Trient.
Day 2 was the best weather forecast for the week so we headed up to the col du Passon. Big delays getting up the lifts with it being the big holiday week meant that we didn't get started hiking until 12:30. Even so we made good progress and were up the top in about 2 hours 30. Although loads of people had obviously been up the Passon, most of them had taken the same route down (for some strange reason). This left the right hand side of the descent under the Glacier totally untracked for us! A great descent with plenty of fresh turns for all.
A good friend of mine, top UK Freerider Will Hughes came over for the weekend and joined us for the first couple of days riding before heading back over to Tignes where he lives during the winter.
Today the weather changed and the foehn wind started up. The light went a bit flat this morning so we did a top tickets front face off the Grandes Montets and a bit of a technique session on the Herse. The sun came out in the afternoon so we nipped back up the top and came down the Pas Du Chevre which again still had some good untracked lines down the middle of it and was in good condition all the way to Chamonix.
It looks like it might have been snowing in Courmayeur today so that might be the ticket for tomorrow. I'll check the web cams in the morning and make my decision then. Looks like a bit of snow might also hit Chamonix tomorrow so hopefully things will start to fill in again.
All is good in Chamonix,
Neil.
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