Back-country skiing Guides and Trips in France
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Trips
Skied the Cosmiques again in very nice pow in perfect weather. I caught the second tram, had a coffee to give the pro skiers some time to test the line for avalanches (by charging and banging turns). Then, I dropped the slope of the arret and head over to the col des cosmiques at a leisurely tempo. While I was down climbing the upper couloir, Remy Écluse, a local extreme skier of 36-years,...
Pic des Chalanches
Chalets de l'Alpe, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Back-country skiing | 5.5 miles
Back-country skiing | 5.5 miles
Pic de Chalanches is a great early season tour when the conditions are right, and today they were right. Later on in the season the skiing can be as good, but the approach is much longer and harder as the road from Villard up to lac de l’Orceyrette will be blocked with snow adding some 800m of climbing and 9km of distance on.We got up there early this morning so that we...
We were planning to hit Courmayeur as the skiers cleared, but they cleared in a snap, and so, Morgan and I were compelled by pow fever to ski the Couloir des Cosmiques yet again. You can do worse than run laps on this 2777m descent, and today, it was DEEP with 40cm of fresh at the Aiguille de Midi, and more in the couloir. The pow kept on coming until the tunnel,...
Montée au col de Peyrefitte puis crêtes en direction du Pic du Lion.Bascule en version ouest depuis le sommet avant le pic du Lion.Passage par un petit goulet. Croute de glace sous la neige fraîche... Petite coulée de neige.Remontée au col à l'ouest du Pic du Lion. Pic nique. La montée au Pic du Lion s'avère délicate, toujours cette croute de glace en dessous de la neige fraiche. Notons au passage une...
We skied four runs on the Delonne Couloir and followed it with a descent of the Glacier Toule all the way down to La Palud.
De Valfréjus à Valmeinier, via Thabor
St Michel De Maurienne, Rhône-Alpes, France
Back-country skiing | 36 miles
Back-country skiing | 36 miles
Coste Noundy
Chateauroux -les-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Back-country skiing | 3.6 miles
Back-country skiing | 3.6 miles
I can see this ski tour out of the kitchen window and my office window so it has been drawing me towards it for some time now. I had a go at it last year but the road was snowed in far down the valley and I didn’t allow myself enough time. Today the road was OK and I managed to get all the way up to the summer car park at...
Pic du Jaillon - NE Couloir
Arvieux, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Back-country skiing | 3.6 miles
Back-country skiing | 3.6 miles
I saw a nice looking couloir on the pic du Jaillon last weekend when I was up at Arvieux skiing with Ollie. I had a look in the book and couldn’t find it so I managed to get Hubert interested in going and checking it out.The couloir I saw is the unmarked one. Working out how to get through the lower rock band was bit tricky and we ended up going up...
Très belle ballade. Longue et un peu technique sous les lacs (Crozet et Domenon) - couteaux et fourchettes. Pas aimé passage au-dessus du Lac de Crozet avec de la neige dure, à la monteé. Descente : neige transformée du haut jusqu'en bas, dur dans le haut mais vite plus douce côtés est.Portage jusqu'à la sortie de la fôret (en bas de la pente N du Grand Colon).Avec Sergio.
Just a great day out with my mate steve
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Chapelle-des-Bois, Franche-Comté, France
Back-country skiing | 4.0 miles
Back-country skiing | 4.0 miles
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Châtelblanc, Franche-Comté, France
Back-country skiing | 9.2 miles
Back-country skiing | 9.2 miles
Just the ENSA couloir and ski back to chamonix
Skiing some of the classic routes around Chamonix.day1: Weather was too bad to do Vallee Blanche so we kept to finding several ways down the Argentiere glacier. Then we took Bochart and skied down the Pendant glacier to Le lavancher through the trees and took bus home.day2: Lift to Aguille du midi shut so go to Brevant and ski the Pentes de l'hotel and the Couloir de l'ENSA. Weather at the top of...
