There was only one route to be considered - the traverse over the col de Chrochue, and the col de Berard.
Taking the Flegere cable car and the Index chair, we got height quickly.Skins on and we soon traversing around the coombes to the Chrochue valley
From here we zigzagged up the combe, as the slope got steeper. The last time Bryon and I had been here we ended up walking the last few meters, but this time we could skin all the way to the col.
At the col we soon changed from uphill to downhill mode.
There follows a long descending traverse keeping as high as possible but keeping under the rocky ridges.
At the corner we changed again into uphill mode, and headed for the col de Berard.
this section always looks further than it turns out and we were soon on the col looking down the long Berard valley.The wind was quite vicious so we did not stay long, just enough time to take the skins off and eat a chocolate bar
The powder on the other side was fantastic and we all had fun (apart from John, who had struggled on his "approach" skis the previous day in the powder, the skis just were not buoyant enough to hold his weight up as he weighted to turn, the diving skis caused him to nose dive frequently).
Being selfish we all found our own lines to descend and made the most of the situation.
At the bottom we all had massive grins .. including John who had used this to justify getting some new skis!!
