A deep day with Splat and Flingle :)
Almost didn't bother skiing this morning, had to work first thing, had to be off the montain by 2pm and there was nothing but thick cloud around in the morning....Flingle and splat headed up anyway and it started to clear, so much so that we could even see the hills on slats lid
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Just the mountains
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Splat got do do some skiing between pics
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Of course flingle found the deep stuff
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very deep
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and it just got deeper
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Cham Rocked Slightly Today
Phil Ingle rocks my world. As does Tom. Nothing but supa deep blower today on 45-50 degree slopes off the midi, through crevasse-laden glaciers with no tracks as the boys expanded the skiable terrain, taking me on exploratory journeys across icefields considered too unsafe for travel and on slopes that slabbed off with our turns, WHOOMPHING with a thunder and tons and tons of sluff pouring down around, but never upon, us. Just fuckin unbelievable. Totally got those pics of Phil and many more on film, making it a working day of epic proportions and opportunity.
Could not have asked for a better setup for pics, fun, and adventure, spraying deep above bergschrunds and icefalls that could prove quite fatal upon the slightest error. Never a worry in the company of the supadupa maggots of Cham.
What's beyond cool is that Tom and Phil are as humble as they are spectacularly awesome on and off the snow. All that plus more done, no Punani showing up after getting ample warnings, we hit the bar across from the train station when we hit town, down some drinks, hop on a bus to head back into our end of town. Standing on the crowded bus, I hear a sound - splat- nah, can't be me splat, no one here could know me. Again -splat- Phil says "Hey, it's Punani". There he is in the back of the bus we grab at the end of the day. First thing out of my mouth "You gonna shit when you see the pics...."
Re: Cham Rocked Slightly Today
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Originally posted by splat
What's beyond cool is that Tom and Phil are as humble as they are spectacularly awesome on and off the snow.
It's usually the case with great people, and from what we can tell from our Internet view, they both are. Props to you guys.
drC
PS: and those pictures ain't bad either!
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Originally posted by splat
First thing out of my mouth "You gonna shit when you see the pics...."
Fucking good shit, Splat, Tom and Phil!
Shit my pants I did. Here I was in the back of the bus with a shit eating grin that you get from eating up 30,000' vert of pow, milking every secret off-piste powder stash in the vast open fields of Le Lavancher (A region so huge you ski untracked snow 2-3 days after a storm).
After an ass-haul back from Geneve, where I originally planned a day off, I had to get back up here. Cham 10am. Figured those guys are long gone. I had no beacon, shovel and NFI what to do on the Aiguille without the best guides in the world (well, my world at least), Tom and Phil. Since I didn't feel like dying I headed over to the premiere area in the Chamonix Valley, Les Grand Montets. Every section of Les Grand Montets is avalanche-prone and deadly in the wrong conditions, but a skier's dream when it's right. It was a good place to search for "ohhhhs" and Ahhhhhs!" and THAT'S the blizzard of ahhhhs!
Solo session, high speed pow-lapping of Bochard-Lavancher and skied untracked up until the last run. Probably one of the top 10 days of my life, but I still wish I was at the Aiguille with the three amigos :D
Many pics to follow.
Re: A deep day with Splat and Flingle :)
*Ahem.* Just in case anybody missed it:
Classic.
