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12-20-2016, 12:36 AM #26
Yeah, Jesper gets a fair bit of Salomon stuff to play with, Joel gets given the odd pair of skis too. And here I am buying gear like a schmuck, stealing my wife's skis occasionally. Ah well, c'est la vie. I have no great need for material wealth, when I have all of this spiritual and emotional wealth dripping from every pore.
Jesper actually made a possible first descent just the other day, with another rad skier called Tom Grant, of the west couloir on the Tour Noire, and the two dudes who opened this line, the Frigor, each made another first descent... Bruchez on the sunny side of the Argentiere basin, and Douds on the north face. So even though conditions are sub-optimal right now, there's still some pretty fucking exciting skiing to be done!
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12-20-2016, 09:09 AM #27cliffed out
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Really really cool
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12-20-2016, 09:18 AM #28
december's the new april.
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12-22-2016, 01:44 AM #29
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12-26-2016, 11:41 AM #30
Amazing work, well done. Some serious puckering just watching that vid
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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02-09-2017, 10:29 AM #31
The place to be ?
Ducroz, Bruchez, Charlet and Grojean.
"Typically euro, french in particular, in my opinion. It's the same skiing or climbing there. They are completely unfazed by their own assholeness. Like it's normal." - srsosbso
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02-16-2017, 06:39 PM #32
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02-18-2017, 04:55 AM #33Registered User
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Awesome video and pictures thank you for sharing. Also thanks for sharing the video of Wintergatan's Marble Machine that was very cool too!
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03-01-2017, 08:05 AM #34
Haha, yep, it seems our roundabout way of getting into the couloir is the new accepted approach for it!
Also worthy of note... they were still dicking about with ropes and headtorches and things to get down to the Mer de Glace when it got dark... whereas we, with our climb back up to the Grands Montets via the Drus approach couloir, were safely at home with a beer and sandwich by nightfall.
Sometimes it pays to suck it up and get some more exercise!Short stories about snow and rock, and pictures, too
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