First Midi trip of the Season

**Idris** · 12-26-2003, 07:41 AM

Christmass day saw me riding Powder and doing the first decent of the Midi of the Season.....yeah I've been up and played with kites with flingle, he has skied part of the way down and walked back, but acording to the lifties at both ends of the trip we were the first of the season....The glacers have moved qite a bit, some places stayed the same and others are quite different. Route finding was a challange and snow was short in places but it was a great and soulfull day.

Preparing for the skiing ahead

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RK emerging from the ice cave at the top station.

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First turn, first pitch.

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Me laying down some turns.

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Leaning back to much tryng to stay on top of the crust.

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RK with the first pitch in the background, the righthand skyline is the ridge overlooking Chamonix

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Below the seccond pitch

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Negotiating the crevases

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Out in the open

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Winding through the ice blocks above the Requin Refuge

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Walking the last 100 meters or so to Montonvers

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**truth** · 12-26-2003, 07:44 AM

Nice! See you in La Grave in 3 weeks.

**lph** · 12-26-2003, 08:53 AM

Excellent, nice stoke, idris.

**funkendrenchman** · 12-26-2003, 10:40 AM

WOW!!!! Can't wait to see ya there in 2.5 months!

**Ripzalot** · 12-27-2003, 07:21 AM

OUTSTANDING! Gotta love first tracks.

G · 12-27-2003, 03:01 PM

Niiiice,

Looks like santa brought you what you wanted.

**Endlessseason** · 12-29-2003, 08:41 AM

Idris, I'm glad to see we're not the only ones gettin some. It's nice to see us all back in the deep.
As I stood atop Hidden Peak Saturday at -8 F getting blasted by the blowing powder, I realized I was standing on the very spot where I snapped that photo of you visiting the Bird for the first time--that was just 3 months ago.
The next time you visit Oootah, you've gotta time it to be here in the winter cuz you shoulda been standing here Saturday, mang. It was powder gluttony.

Nice pics of Cham!! Looking forward to your season TR's!

**Endlessseason** · 12-29-2003, 08:52 AM

Oh, and next time...can you try to bring a vehicle that runs without duct tape and vice grips...

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**Idris** · 12-30-2003, 12:01 PM

This one runs with bathroom selant and duyck tape holding it together, had to remove the vice grips to fix some other stuff!

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