Another fine day. No more fresh snow, but still plenty of powder to be found if you’re prepared to make the effort. We chose one of our favourite day tours, the Crochues-Berard traverse.
The index chair lift and then the Floria button lift took us to the start of the tour (these lifts are just great!). Then it’s an hour of up hill skinning to the Col des Crochues. The last 10 metres or so are always steep, so the skis have to come off. Luckily there had been a few people before us, so we were able to make use of the bucket steps.
Then it’s a cool swish through deep powder, and then a long traverse before the next up hill to the Col du Berard.
After the Col du Berard we were rewarded with the most fantastic down hill glorious powder, then through the trees and eventually down to Le Buet.
Just enough time for a quick beer before the train back to Chamonix.
Another great day out.
Series - Chamonix 2011
- Deep powder at Planpraz
- Off piste powder heaven at Le Tour
- Crochues-Berard traverse
- Frendo-Ravanel
French Mexican ๐
I’d resisted going for a Mexican meal in France for ages, but Pete finally persuaded me. It’s fantastic, with home made nachos :yum: :yum: :yum: and scrummy tortillas :yum: :yum: .
I had to laugh tho’, when I asked for “dos cervezas por favor” and the waiter looked at me very blankly. Then I said “deux biรยจres s’il vous plaรยฎt” and there was still a blank look. He was Italian. I don’t know any Italian. Luckily, “two beers please” seemed to work. :sarcy: :sarcy:
It’s a great restaurant, Corre el Tiempo, and I’d recommend it to anyone.
This reminds me of a Hungarian joke. Policemen are considered quite stupid here so we have lots of jokes about their ‘sharp brains’. This one goes like this: A foreign tourist walks up to two policemen and asks for directions. First he tries in English but the policemen don’t understand. Then he tries German, Italian, French, Russian and several other languages but the result is the same. In the end he gives up and leaves. So one policeman tells the other, ‘Hmmm … I guess it’s time we learned some foreign languages’ The other replies, “What for?! Just look at this poor guy, how many languages he speaks and still he has no use of it’ ๐
For future reference: “Due birra, per favore”. Pronounce the e’s.
Great pictures, but why does Pete need three skis for the final ascent? ๐ฏ
Ah, well there’s one of my skis “the right way up” between my feet, and the two in the foreground are Laetitia’s. ๐
Looks like another fab day. Good to see you both are perfecting the powder face plant technique!!!
๐ Oh yes, we’re very good at that! The real art yet to be mastered is to have a camera out to capture the face-plant moment… ๐