Back from chamonix. A week of contrasts!
Sunday - Rain! Morning in Grand Montets(bad vis) and afternoon in les Houches(good vis!)
Monday - Rain in morning. Spent the morning dotting around Brevent & Flegere. A lot of avalanche debris due to the rain and high temps. Temperature inversion in the morning for a bit. Cracking views of Mont Blanc above the cloud. Afternoon in Le Tour, still possible to ski back to Vallorcine
Tuesday - Bluebird! Dragged fiona boarding at Les Houches until the snow softened up and then went sight seeing up the Aiguille du Midi. Hmm today should have been a vallee blanch day! Very , very warm in the valley.
Wednesday - Another bluebird day. Grand montets was open so did a couple of cracking runs down from the top and then dotted around until the slush got too annoying. Again very , very warm in the valley (18c!!)
Thursday - Meant to have been a vallee blanch day but there was a storm over the mont blanc massif so dotted around flegere and brevent again. Some more big avalanches have occurred over the ski runs again. Snow very slushy low down. Best run was black from the drag lift near the index lift.
Friday - Day trip to verbier. Rain, wind and snow. Lasted the morning and then went shopping in sallanches.
Saturday - Epic powder day at Grand Montets. Top not open but great snow whilst it wasnt tracked out. Afternoon in Let Tour, managed one run before the weather crapped out and we called it a day!
Picture attached is a full depth avalanche over one of the red runs at brevent.
Mike in Edinburgh
Assorted scottish pics - www.prog99.com
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