Snow for the Euros.

[klar]

Waxenstein Northface

yes!

S'gibt nur oa Loisachtoi alloa
Oa Zugspitz und oan Waxenstoa
Do kannst die ganze Welt ausgeh
Und fandst as nirgends mehr so schee!

[blondin]

yes many very great possibilities but not as many friends here...

Sie in Deutschland oder Osterreich?

yes!

S'gibt nur oa Loisachtoi alloa
Oa Zugspitz und oan Waxenstoa
Do kannst die ganze Welt ausgeh
Und fandst as nirgends mehr so schee!

[klar]

i'm from bavaria but live in innsbruck. where are you based? potential friends here for you if you need one for something in particular.

[CarveMan]

T-Shirt weather in Chamonix. I heard what sounded like a bomb and there is a heli circling above Brevent so I am assuming they are controlling wet slides up there.

I leave at stupid o'clock tomorrow morning, will get a TR up soon from my ski tour to a Bivouac on the Saleina glacier.

[peds]

T-Shirt weather in Chamonix. I heard what sounded like a bomb and there is a heli circling above Brevent so I am assuming they are controlling wet slides up there.

Loud, wasn't it. Hope you've had a blast here in Cham dude, sorry we didn't order any fresh snow for you. A few centimetres coming on Monday, apparently, but nothing to write home about.

Mont Buet on Monday of this week was long, windy, icy, and totally worth it just for view (even better in winter than it is summer, which is still pretty phenomenal) and the sweet taste of beer at the end of it.


The first skin, up to the Col des Crochues


Get dressed for the traverse around the back of the Aiguille du Belvedere


The second skin, up to the Col du Berard...


...and bootpack up the ridge for 100m vert...



...then skis on and traverse high around the corner. Skins back on and get ready for the long haul. There she is, all 3099m of her.


The Col and Aiguille du Belvedere, as TRed by Carveman here, in the background


Wind picking up, so skinning up wearing all your layers is necessary... unheard of. Note the dudes sheltering from the gale in their hole on the left.


Fuck me this is a long tour


Bastard subsidiary summit, getting your hopes up, fuck off. Nearly there.


The final slog


Very, very much worth it. From left to right - the Le Tour ski area, the Aiguille du Tour, the Le Tour glacier, Aiguilles Chardonnet and Argentiere, the Argentiere glacier, Aiguille Verte and Les Drus with the Grand Montets ski area and Pas de Chevre below them, the Grande Jorasses, the Dent du Geant, the Envers chain, the Aiguille du Midi, the looming domes of the Mont Blanc and all her friends, and the ski area of Les Houches on the right. In the foreground, the various peaks of the Aiguilles Rouge on the left, with the fabulous skiing on the north faces - Cols du Encrennaz, Beaugeant, Belvedere, Glacier Mort, the Floria, and heading off into the Brevent ski area towards the right. Incredible. The photo doesn't do it justice, obviously.


The top of the north-east face of the Buet not really in condition, but lower down it looks lovely.


Wonderful, that was fun, now let's get off this windy rock as soon as humanly possible.


Run away!



No, there aren't any pictures on the way down of the bulletproof boilerplate on the top, the 100m of heavenly in the middle, and the kneejerk slush at the bottom. Absolutely shitty skiing on the descent, but still an incredibly fun tour. That was about 1400m of vertical in total, I think.

[CarveMan]

Loud, wasn't it. Hope you've had a blast here in Cham dude, sorry we didn't order any fresh snow for you. A few centimetres coming on Monday, apparently, but nothing to write home about.

Thanks mate, don't feel too sorry for me though, I had some pretty epic pow in Japan in January http://powderbible.com/category/trip...ts/japan-2012/

Blue skies were good as I was looking to either tour or ski big lines and felt that I made the most of this short visit.

Thanks for the TR on the Buet, that's something to put on the list. I'm at that awkward stage where I've done some really cool shit with a guide but lack the mountain skills to repeat it on my own & with my wife.

I think we would need quite a bit more work to get out on glaciers on our own so the Aiguilles Rouges are probably the place to hone some skills in a slightly less daunting environment & then get a guide when we want to get out on something big.

[Mickey de Haas]

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Having fun in Davos Switzerland.

[Onward]

Didier cuche retires. On wooden skis and leathers

[beer30]

Sauber oider! Cant say Ive ever really heard of any one topping out on rthat line. Is the Weiner neustadter in?

[BerettaRacer]

Champoluc/Gressoney/Alagna ??
Thinking about heading up for an single overnight after work Mon to catch some fresh on Tues from this storm, where do we head.
Some write-ups say the better base is Champoluc, others say Alagna has the better skiing but much harder driving access.
Gressoney puts you in the middle valley, easy access from the Aosta valley highway, but St Jean or Trinite?
Just looking to get some fresh, preferably a little off piste, maybe some trees, but not jumping of faces etc.
Thx

[Meathelmet]

Champoluc/Gressoney/Alagna ??
Thinking about heading up for an single overnight after work Mon to catch some fresh on Tues from this storm, where do we head.
Some write-ups say the better base is Champoluc, others say Alagna has the better skiing but much harder driving access.
Gressoney puts you in the middle valley, easy access from the Aosta valley highway, but St Jean or Trinite?
Just looking to get some fresh, preferably a little off piste, maybe some trees, but not jumping of faces etc.
Thx

Gressoney valley, absolutely. Has the best access & most secure lifts if it decides to get windy/shitty weather.

You could stay in staffal or la trinite, the lifts run from there and there is no commuting in the morning.
Cons are that they are a bit more "resort" like compared to st.jean.
I would personally stay in st.jean, (hotel lyskamm,just beside the parking lot after the bridge) and go for dinner to The Flying Brasserie and eat Stinko there.
A bit barolo on the side,as well...and maybe a espresso & pampero afterwards...

T -7 maybe here as well, have to check how I get my work done..

[CarveMan]

+1 for the Flying Brasserie.

My Monte Rosa trip last year was stymied by weather, so dinner/pissup at FB was probably the highlight.

[TeleAl]

Leysin Altitude 1264m
18 March 2012
16h00

It's snowing.
It's been snowing for 2 hours.

Let it snow.

[patxi]

I am placing an order for some Dynafit crampons tomorrow with B&D. If anybody wants to place an order and split shipping expenses, send me a pm before noon CET on Monday. I will have them shipped to Switzerland.

[Orash111]

Anyone got any recent images info on the condition of the verbier main bowl? Haven't been there in a while. Want to see what kind of carnage the wet avalanches have done to it in the past weeks.

[Hicks]

Anyone got any recent images info on the condition of the verbier main bowl? Haven't been there in a while. Want to see what kind of carnage the wet avalanches have done to it in the past weeks.

From last weekend







Still fresh above 2500 m if you are willing to hike for it. Considerable wet slabs, it was fucking warm.

[CarveMan]

I had lunch on the Trient glacier just behind the Pissoir the other day, we could see the wet slabs in the Verb main bowl from there.

[Marius]

some serious fun yesterday while a private freeride contest in Tirol. there should be more fun events like this. no sponsor pressure, everybody is a winner, just freeriding (!!!) and having fun...way more fun for me then one of those professional FWT events...

[JRainey]

The backflip around 34 secs was insane. I can't believe he got it around that far... strong dude. Cool video.

[herr_stoiber]

Waxenstein Northface


Yet another gem of a route here in Bavaria. Something tells me I haven't even scratched the surface yet...
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good to see some stoke from my old home country bavaria. and yes, from what the boys and girls back home hint at when given enough tegernseer hell, there must be plenty of steep hardly known stuff between wendelstein and zugspitze!

[herr_stoiber]

friday didn't seem like a good day to spend in front of computers so we went out and did some real work.

skinned up, then the snow was hard so we walked a bit, finally the small hourglass shaped passage and the icy slope above warranted the use of crampons and piolet.


after some more skinning we skied this line:

it's called Schafries in the local lingo and the guidebook judges it at a rewarding 45 degrees of inclination. the crux, which is usually only 1.5m wide, was unproblematic this year as there were some patches of snow on the side that allowed for easy passage.

back in the valley, the rest of the crew loading up the truck in the green green grass of spring, getting ready for beer and an afternoon of office work:

[LaZapatilla]

Went for a walk this morning



Howling for more snow

[Orash111]

Love it ^^^

[Meathelmet]

5 frenchmen caught in an avy in northern norway, tromsa area.
5 missing and 1 dug out. was out in a group of 12, dont know if guided or not.

anyone thinking taking a trip up north, dont. not this winter. go to souther norway.


Edit ; 4 dead, one still missing.

Edit2 : 4 swiss & 1 french apprently among the people. Peeps were part of a ski-from-boat group, so that usually means that it has been a guided group... Fucking shame...
At the present snow situation, no one should be in that kind of area. The snowpack has been, and is, totally fucked up this season.




http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/t...mark/1.8041381

[Onward]

Damn. A slow start to the season means lots of persistant weak layers up north this year.

Some sobering stats: Crown is about 1000m wide, the bowl released and funneled into a 100m tounge and ran for 5-600m onto/over a small lake, last body found 6m deep.