TR CH - Saas-Fee: Scenics, no action

Request came in to put something up with white in it.
Here goes for the Friday cube-slaves.

Saas-Fee's glaciers, northern aspect, and deep valley provided everything;
great snow quality on the pistes, fresh powder was 4th buckle high, chalk, bone-rattling wind-rip'd & breakable crust.
edit: Photos taken Jan 7. My last ski day.
Been using hiking boots since then.

Dom ridgeline w/ early morning vapor "caps".
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70238.jpg

The valley's south-face aspects provide rock climber's heaven.
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70242.jpg

Hike up above top station. Glacier wall about 4-5 stories high.
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70241.jpg

A small ice wall. ~ 2 stories high
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70240.jpg

Late afternoon view of Dom ridgeline.
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70237.jpg

Being solo, I did not hike up to Allalinhorn summit.
Descended on chalk, sugar, and wind-rip'd.
Looking across crevasses to teleski.
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70239.jpg

Allalinhorn in after-glow.
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_70235.jpg

Soa iam glääädsscchherrrr-oice fuahhrn is noicee !!

hehehhhehehe ...

nice.....

buenisimo fotos

I was just gonna post that, I foresee another POTD @ Biglines... But it seems like you already did that.

Nice, litt.

Oh and hope you've gotten used to those Hagans already :biggrin:

sweeet! I want the allalinhorn this summer!! it was already the target the past august, but meteo was horrible :-(

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Originally Posted by verbier61

sweeet! I want the allalinhorn this summer!! it was already the target the past august, but meteo was horrible :-(

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yes, i remember u saying it was on your to-do list. meteo always the key factor.

if u r interested i would like to do it in mid-April - May. hike up from village to summit ~ 6 hrs. w/ cafe stop at Morenia. :D

An alternative would be to take lifts to top station and summit Allalinhorn and Stralhorn same day. Both over 4000m.

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Originally Posted by hemas

Oh and hope you've gotten used to those Hagans already :biggrin:

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used NX21's & Hagans for the entire 3 ski day trip.
Piste, pow, ice, dust & chalk. Exclent!

NX21's as stable as Alpine bindings w/o weight.

Only drawback was using those light-weight Hagans on wind-rip'd crust; Bone-rattling ride w/o much control.
A heavier ski w/ alpine binding may have provided more stability.

later!