Argentiere hut, France

 We decided today to go skinning again, and repeated the route we did with Brian Hall the year before. We would drop from the top station of the Grands Montets down to the Argentiere glacier, cut across to the hut.

With Dave and I would be Brian (this may have been his first go a skinning but definitely not the last as we would see in later years), and Steve, who would drift away from us as a group, so we never went together after this trip.

The hut was firmly shut and snowed in, in other years we would find it open and various contraptions used to reach it.
After a brief rest we headed back down, a now well known track back to the Pierre a Ric route, and hence back to the Lognan station.
The route did not raise any issues and as such we knew now we had moved on, and ready for greater challenges in future trips.