Along with this, I had discovered that I had brought lots of left eye contact lenses, but had not enough ones for the right eye - not a disaster, but would affect my vision.
We decided that with the weather unrelenting on top of the other issues we would not go for the continuation over the selle d'Alberon, but drop back down to Bonneville.Hindsight would show we should have stuck out with a rest day, but unsure of the weather and out of signal.
So a lie in, followed by a late breakfast, and slowly got ready for the descent, waiting for the snow to soften up. In the meantime I took some panorama pictures of the sun rise
The walk over raised the temperature inside our shells, and stretched all the muscles.At the col we paused to put the skis on and checked out the route. It was supposed to drop down a little then dog leg out to the west before coming back.
There were ski tracks everywhere and we picked up some heading left after while these headed back right. Without thinking too hard, we assumed this had been the dog leg ... not correct.
We dropped down too far and could not get back left. This meant we dropped straight down, and had to negotiate through some rocks and scrub, but as we were early in the day it was sufficiently bonded to allows us to get down without too much issue.The run back to Bonneville was back down the track we had come up on the first day, avoiding the walkers going in the other direction. The road pops out in the village at the lift, and a small walk up the other side of the river lead us back to the car park.
As we packed everything into the car, looking back up to the traverse from yesterday, we could see a massive fall over the traverse line
Heading off for a coffee and some thing to eat we could look back up the valley to see where we had been before retreating back up the valley.