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Thinking of heading out next weekend (2nd March) for a few days, how are conditions on the ski tour routes? Valley Blanche, pointe ronde, Les houche, col du noir - Argentiere, etc etc
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snow on Wednesday. 1st fall for a while. All good
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I’m not in Cham but have friends there and have spent enough time in the French alps this winter to be sceptical of Janpaul’s view. It’s been an exceptionally dry winter so glaciers will be very tricky - snow bridges will not have formed to any depth and the snow mid-week came to very little. The Cham avalanche report recons 1cm at 1800m on Weds! Touring you’ll be skiing snow that’s over a month old and has been subject to some very mild temperatures… it will be mixed at best.
I see you’ve also posted on the Cham weather thread so will probably get some more views from on the ground.
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Thanks, yes that’s what I’m worried about!
I was out in Jan and was lucky enough to get the amazing powder but with nothing since then (and not much before that dump) I’m worried conditions might be a bit crappy or even dangerous on the glaciers.
Any views from the valley welcome though!
Cheers
Ben
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks, yes that’s what I’m worried about!
I was out in Jan and was lucky enough to get the amazing powder but with nothing since then (and not much before that dump) I’m worried conditions might be a bit crappy or even dangerous on the glaciers.
Any views from the valley welcome though!
Cheers
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Can't give you any read on the glaciers I'm afraid but I did four days touring around Les Contamines 17-21 Feb and while the snow was mixed at best there was plenty of cover above 1600m.
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'm a boarder and went up Aiguille du Midi with my other half on last Friday as a pedestrian and then down to the grotte de glacier.
To my inexperienced eye, the top section looked tracked out and the bottom section pretty sketchy. The run was finishing before the ice cave so it was a bit of a scramble at the end, even before you got to the 500 steps up to the little cable cars.
I spoke to a guide (who was doing it with her Mum) who described it as "nice", which I took to be get polite way of not saying how bad it was in front of others who'd paid a lot to do it. She also said that she saw three people being helicoptered out, one of which with a broken leg. We saw the choppers to support that.
I'm not particularly informed about the other bits you asked about, but I've just come over to Courmayeur for the second day in a row as they had quite a bit of snow on Sunday and the off-piste conditions here are very good, when the visibility is there.
Lots of people doing the off-piste from the top of ARP cable car for example.
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