We hiked up the ridge from the top of the Arp to the small summit above and dropped into the Val Veni with fresh lines down the steep face behind for all. I rode the 168XL Flagship today, and with the deep fresh up top it was in its element and felt amazing!
Man, I just love that board!!
We started the week with a short Splitboard intro tour in Courmayeur, hiking out away from the lifts before dropping some fresh turns down into the woods before splitting again and hiking back out.
Moody skies but great snow, splitboard intro session!
Hiking out of the woods after a nice fresh run into the middle of nowhere!Very good snow, lots of fresh but poor visibility.
Big lines out of the Youla Couloir, not the best shot but I was too busy riding to get the camera out!We then finished the day with a couple of laps down the steep couloir that splits the cliff band below the Youla top station, very Nice!
We followed this up with a tour up and over the Col des Autannes.
Mark prepping for Greenland on the col des Autannes tour!
Liam leads the charge for the top of the col des Autannes on Crampons.A great day out, a fantastic tour with some classic splitboard touring before donning crampons for the final climb up and onto the ridge.
Rich (I think) on the upper wall from the Col des Autannes.
The upper bowl of the Autannes descent, moody skies but great riding from way up the back there and miles more to come!A great descent down with good soft snow all the way to Trient.
We've then spent the last 2 days again over in Italy riding freshies off the lifts as its been snowing quite a bit over there. Yesterday we rode laps on the Youla couloir again as the visibility was in and out but the snow was great.
Today there was quite a lot of fresh snow again and we did a great run off the top of the Arp as I mentioned earlier.
Tomorrow we're hoping to get out touring again so we'll see what the weather brings us. I've been customizing my split set up, I've got the bindings dialed in now with new straps and a Cartel highback (spoiler) and they are starting to feel good. I've also cut about 1cm off the rear voile puck (the grey thing that the binding slides onto) so that I can center the binging better, loosing some heel overhang whilst at the same time allowing me to lengthen the base plate of the binding for more foot and toe support. Looks like it'll be good so I'll let you know!
The Solution in working well and all the guys are stoked with them this week but everyone is in agreement that you need to dial in the bindings so get to work!
The temperatures are up and down a lot at the moment and we're coming in to the spring Avalanche season with fresh snowfalls and crazily rising temperatures. Today we saw a few quite big heavy loose snow slides on the lower slopes so keep your eyes open and ride with care!
I'll leave you with these shots of us on our heli day last week on the Pin d'arolla. Cheating I know but a great day out anyway!
Heli drop on the Pin D'Arolla!
On the summit of the Pin D'Arolla with the Matterhorn behind!Oh and Ruth has informed me that the splitboard course 28th March to 1st April is now full again!
All is good.
Neil.
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