Loads of fresh new snow in Cham over the last few days. Had a bash at the Rond day before yesterday but it was a bit too slabby. It's snowed again since so might give it a day to settle and try again.
The powder was about thigh deep.
some pics at www.philingle.com/20031006.asp
Laters
Phil
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Thread: Snowtime in Cham
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10-08-2003, 04:14 AM #1
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Snowtime in Cham
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10-08-2003, 05:11 AM #2
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you make me want to puke....in a good way
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10-08-2003, 05:13 AM #3
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Nice! BTW Like the site.
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10-08-2003, 06:11 AM #4
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Whoa, great pictures. Hmmm, morning stoke!
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10-08-2003, 07:02 AM #5
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Getting avalanched on the Rond could really put a downer on your morning.
Good work fella.
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10-08-2003, 08:06 AM #6
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Phil,
What an unbelievable place you call home. Beaudy pics. Can't wait to see this season's crop.
Funny. I was just wondering this morning where I'm going to ski this month. We're already more than a week into October and I don't have a clue.
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10-08-2003, 08:11 AM #7
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Phil, as I've alluded before: you mesmerize me! Fucking A - way to git after it ----- again
Stay safe, bro.
Also, did the fracture occur below you, and, if so, how far - I am guessing that the sluff triggered it - how deep was the fracture?
So many questions...
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10-08-2003, 09:34 AM #8
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Phil, the traverse looks a bit rocky.
How was the exit couloir?
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10-08-2003, 10:04 AM #9
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Way to go Phil....should be out in Cham in a month or so.
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10-08-2003, 02:58 PM #10
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Bump, just for even thinking that Glacier Rond would be in shape.
And after this summer, you would have to climb back up and out. Not so good chance of traversing out.
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10-09-2003, 10:30 PM #11
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Sweet as, I can't wait
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10-10-2003, 11:25 AM #12
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Got some pics of the exit through the seracs and around the mountain toward midstation, Phil?Originally posted by sluffhunter
Bump, just for even thinking that Glacier Rond would be in shape.
And after this summer, you would have to climb back up and out. Not so good chance of traversing out.
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10-10-2003, 05:31 PM #13
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I didn't go in with the thought of skiing out. I thought of doing the top pitch and then climbing out up the Passerelle couloir (the one that comes up under the bridge off the midi) as there was very little snow in it so it wouldn't have been too hard a plod.
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10-10-2003, 06:39 PM #14
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Damn cable.
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10-11-2003, 04:16 AM #15
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Hi Splat
It was a real struggle to find anywhere that I could get a reasonable shot of the fracture line. I scrambled around for ages in the old cable car station (there is a shot of how shoddy it all is here http://www.philingle.com/20020118.asp) to find a clean shot and this was the best I could manage. Unless I had gone to the effort of slinging my rope round something and hanging over the edge but that seemed a bit OTT.
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10-11-2003, 09:41 AM #16
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I'm cussing that cable because of the way it dissects the traverse to the Rond, Phil, not that it interferes with your picture quality.
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