First day for this trip and once more we headed for Le Tour, for some "playing" around in the playground that it had become for us.
Dave and I had an idea to try another of the routes from the off-piste guide - down the les possettes slopes to Le Buet off the back of the possettes drag lift. the route description said something like traverse around from the top of the lift and drop over down the gulley leading straight down to the town.
It never occurred to us at the time, but this is a very avalanche prone couloir, and should only be attempted in stable conditions .. luckily these were stable conditions with well formed snow.
Dropping over the shoulder we came around to the top of the main couloir. The snow was well tracked, but had refrozen several times, so we had to keep out of the ruts and ski on the "smoother" parts
From here the couloir drops straight down to the train station. This was much like the gullies we had been playing in on the other side.
The descent was not without incident .... we had a few "incidents" ... over turning, and a bit of nesting in the woods lower down.
At the bottom we looked back up the route... a very obvious line. It was a stretch for us, but yet another step on the journey of off piste skiing.
We checked the timetable to see if we could grab a beer before the next train, however the train was just coming around the bend.
We rode the train back into Argentiere and walked back to the apartment.
Dave and I had an idea to try another of the routes from the off-piste guide - down the les possettes slopes to Le Buet off the back of the possettes drag lift. the route description said something like traverse around from the top of the lift and drop over down the gulley leading straight down to the town.It never occurred to us at the time, but this is a very avalanche prone couloir, and should only be attempted in stable conditions .. luckily these were stable conditions with well formed snow.
Dropping over the shoulder we came around to the top of the main couloir. The snow was well tracked, but had refrozen several times, so we had to keep out of the ruts and ski on the "smoother" parts
From here the couloir drops straight down to the train station. This was much like the gullies we had been playing in on the other side.
The descent was not without incident .... we had a few "incidents" ... over turning, and a bit of nesting in the woods lower down.
At the bottom we looked back up the route... a very obvious line. It was a stretch for us, but yet another step on the journey of off piste skiing.We checked the timetable to see if we could grab a beer before the next train, however the train was just coming around the bend.
We rode the train back into Argentiere and walked back to the apartment.