Pistes are OK, for a bit, but I personally get feed up of them pretty soon. I’ve been hammering about in the resort quite a lot recently trying to build up the muscles in my legs which had all but withered away since my accident. Everything was feeling good this week and with a good snowfall behind us over the past week it was time to take things a step further. Time to go touring!! Me and Michelle Blaydon headed up to Flegere to ski the Glacier Mort on Pointe Alphonse Favre. The first hike up to the Col Des Aiguille Crochues was a sweaty, busy and generally tedious experience which could have been avoided had we got there a slightly earlier. At one point I got wiped out by a punter who decided to fall on top of me whilst I was changing from ski’s to boots becasue my knee couldn’t deal with the slippy kick turns. Apparently it was my fault? I think not buddy . After the second sweaty hike we got to the top of PAV and found some great snow which lead us down to the Berard valley and on to a nice cold beer in Le Buet. Watch out for the cliffs on the descent if you head up there to do it. We had to hike back up 30m or so after we started to ski because we got cliffed-out following a track.
More Info here.
http://www.chamonixtopo.com/glacier-mort-aiguille-rouge
