If you havent seen this you should watch it . january 2012 in cham
If you havent seen this you should watch it . january 2012 in cham
finally, after so long, i get to ski my be-loved run. I skied it only once last year and this is my first descent this year. And oh lord did i feel like a virgin. All sweaty and shy. So for the betas, i think you could ski straight down from the middle, it looked good. But the little shy virgin that i am then opted for the safest hardest not slabby skier left ridge. It was nice anyhow, grippy with some good pow turns here and there..some slippery ice which kept me in focus …the exit couloir was variable: deep pow turns mixed with some crusty ones. Nice skiing. very conservative. we decided to go down the bosson, where the glacier just collapsed entirely on the traverse back to the moraine. which left massive balls of ice you have to ski over while looking at the very threatening tongue of the glacier. then the way back to cham is very good EXEPT those fuckin dogs. OK! now, (rant) wtf. one sounding irish dude nicely asked us to take our skis off to traverse the dog shit town so the fuckin dog wouldnt bite us. Ok, fine, we had a good day, no need to argue here , we proceeded. I can t wait for the March daily rush hour. And why do those people have so many fuckin dogs. and why do they let them shit on their bed. this is gross. so retarded. I lived in a van for 5 years, it was the best time of my life, off the grid , alone, and no fuckin dog barking….so far from this dogshit town situation…
The vallancant is one of those runs that used to be “off the guide book trail” but is now very popular and hard to get first track. Which is understandable because it is truly an amazing descent with a very short hike. Now, there are plenty of variation which are rarely skied in the same zone so if you really need to be the first that day it should be easy. I just wanted a good ski out of the cold and wind and in the sun. too fuckin cold these days. the wind was depositing massive amount of moisture snow all around and i was a little worried about that run. I proved right , a big slab released half way down the couloir and went down to the glacier bed . It happened right before us and probably just as the 2 skiers before us exited the couloir, hence their fresh tracks on the apron. the skiing was marginal between slabby hard chalk and soft snow…we met a few chamois and were out of there on time for apres ski…
the ogre the monk and the virgin. i am not sure what s&M porn story the swiss german have but my dreams were dirty…we skied the 1600 M west face of the eiger. like in the sierra california, you have to hike every inches you ski. it ended up being an awesome trip out in the mountains with great friends and co…the conditions were typical of a 1600 M west face in the springs: variable. its about 40 degree more or less for 1600 M. the top 500 meters are worth the trip; nicely peppered, beautifully exposed, the north face right there and you looking down at 1600 meters of what looks like a forever run. then its like skiing grand montet sometime with a giant serac over your head. It took us between 3.30 and 4 hours to get up it.