TR: Weißseespitze, 17.10.07

[klar]

To all the people who have been posting powder TRs, you will be pleased to know that you are hated. (No, not reeeeaaally.)

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Compared to our usual ideal case scenario of not having to do much more than fall out of bed to get to the mountain, the drive to Kaunertal is long. Like, over an hour. It involves lots of hairpin turns and several tunnels. The frog on the dashboard was nodding its head to the music. I wasn’t sure if I was feeling sick or not. In the end I figured it would be best to just do the same as the frog.

Tunnel picture because I think 666 should be posting more TRs.


The Weisseespitze is a peak conveniently located just above a ski area. The north face gets a fair amount of traffic as an easy “iceclimb" but no one got in the way of our skiing today since we are goodfornothing students and went when other people work.



Having spoken to someone who had done it a few days earlier, we decided to save ourselves the painful stairmaster straight through the face and followed the ridge up from the right. It is hard to tell what the snow is like from below since it is not actual snow but glacier ice with some snow sticking to it. Sometimes there is not much at all of said snow and when finding that out it is preferable to have crampons on your feet rather than skis, thus the hesitation.

Cornelius in red, Toby in dark green, me in brighter green.

The climb was a nice scramble.

C.’s pic




The views were nice, well, views.

C.’s pic

C.’s pic




3540m


C.’s pic


We saw an eagle, or at least a large, good looking bird.

C.’s pic


After the initial rollover the pitch is a fairly consistent 50ish degrees for maybe 250m. It flattens out considerably once you pass a kind of step not quite half way down. The snow was edgeable but hard enough to make falling seem like a not so good idea. In some places we were punching through the crust, which kept things interesting.

The Kaunertal
C.’s pic


Heading for the drop off.
C.’s pic


Getting steeper.




Getting anticlimatically flatter.



I did this in almost powder as one of my last ski days in late spring, pleased to have come full circle. It is not exactly wintery here yet but we do have melting glaciers to crawl around on. So we do.


Nice day, good boys for coming up with the idea.

[GBB]

Klar ist die beste Maggette!!!

[Rontele]

the unsuct

[FrankZappa]

Thanks Klar.

Looks like a fun filled ridgeline.


... and you really need to try to get out and ski more this year. OK?

[Ripzalot]

very nice! i wish my local glacier had that pitch.

i give you: a for early season effort.

[Evmo]

Klar ist die beste Maggette!!!

Klar ist ein Maedchen? Hatte nicht gewusst, jetzt ist alles klar...

[cramp]

Very nice.

...since we are goodfornothing students and went when other people work.

At least you have to pay nowadays .

[freak]

wow, seems like no snow in tyrol at all...

but nice tr

freak~[&]

[MakersTeleMark]

~~~~(oYo)~~~~

[IridePow]

good way to get in shape for the season...... oh wait your season barely stopped.

[cj001f]

mmm skiing.

[Lone Star]

fantastiche!

[splat]

I can hear the tinkling of it down the crust...

[summit]

que bueno!
(sorry... no sprechen)

[Hicks]

I'm freaked out by the depressing snow level too.

Nice shots Klar.

[subtle plague]

is gute TR.
oh wait i do speak the right language!

sehr hübsch!

[SILENCER]

Sehr gut!

[Idris]

Nice one ..........hope you had some sharp edges.

[Tri-Ungulate]

Klar ist ein Maedchen?

duh... selbstverständlich.

bumpage.

awesum.