Chamonix ended up being quite expensive: I left my super red lunch box on the plane (and no one handed it in, so someone's knicked it! Or they did a controlled explosion on it - nothing on the news though, so maybe not); broken back tooth; broken rucksack...
We crunched our breakfast this morning - un pain avec abricot confiture - and something crunched harder than I expected. I'd broken my tooth! But nothing was going to stop play today...
After yesterday's efforts our leg muscles were knackered. Well Laetitia's and mine were. Actually if the truth be told, mostly just mine! And as Dave reported almost no aches and pains, it seems that it's true that skiing makes higher demands on the thigh muscles than snowboarding? Anyway, all of this led us to turn to the idea of enjoying some piste skiing to save ourselves from more punishment...
We decided to take Dave on the amazing Crochues-Berard traverse tour to discover Snowboard mountaineering! The climb up to the Crochues col followed by the traverse across to and climb up to the Berard col were easy. But the descent was another story...
It will probably have melted by the time you get to look 🙁 at this webcam from Place Balmat, but today there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix centre, and the forecast says there’ll be more overnight! Obviously it snows in Chamonix’s high mountains all year, but it gets quite exciting when the first …
An Alpine start, we got up extra early this morning to catch the 6.10am lift up to the Aiguille du Midi. Our plan was to climb Chere Gully on the Triangle du Tacul...
