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Cosmiques Couloir – May 26th!

26th May 2013by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

I’m just back from a rock n road trip to Finale and heard things were good so rushed down to the Midi to catch the mid morning window of opportunity. Bird and Minna were coming out of the cafe and Camille soon joined. I’d been expecting to ski alone so didn’t have my SLR which was a shame for the big wide open skiing in the Cosmiques. Conditions are pretty epic right now and it was bottomless powder to the bottom – what a way to get back on skis after a week off! Thanks to Bird, Minna Riihimaki and Camille Jaccoux.

Minna in the starting gate. Cosmiques Couloir_-4

Minna

and again

Bird and his plume

Camille

Bird

Petit Rognan

20th May 2013by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

After Saturday’s foehn storm we went up for a Sunday powder run down Petit Envers. With few people skiing the cold snow was flat and rip-able – you can’t ask for more on south facing slopes on May 19th! Michelle Blaydon in vallee blanche-2

The North Face of Aiguille du Midi – Eugster Couloir

15th May 2013by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

The plan was to go to the Grand Gervasutti on Tacul with sunshine forecast. Tom and myself had bivouacked the previous night to get an early start but half way up Tacul in 20 m visibility it became clear that the weather had changed and we turned round and returned to the Midi completely rimed up battling the cloud and wind. Arriving at the Midi the next morning we found out that opening was delayed till 1030 so that put and end to that Gervasutti attempt. Instead we settled for a run down the North Face in Eugster Couloir. Back at the mid-station there was some technical hitch and we waited several hours until 1830 to get down. Not a good logistics day at the Midi!

Thanks to Tom, Mika and Marcus for a good day out. Mika took the following photos – Thanks Mika!

Frendo Fail

8th May 2013by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

We went up to ski the Frendo and take photos but the overnight rain level had risen too high. Even Ben wasn’t keen for the hard snow on the lower half and the top half had only seen an angry inch.

The disappointment was soon at the back of our minds as we enjoyed some fast flowing velvet down an Envers variant reminding us that low angled can be really fun.An unhappy Mikko

Luca and Niki looking sad. There will be no Frendo spine action today. Ben cruising on the velvet.

Attempt on the Gabarrou Les Courtes

7th May 2013by rosshewittguidingLeave a comment

Mikko, Tom and Ben chilling in the sun.

Mikko.

Luca arriving at the hanging glacier.

I’m not going well today and about to ski down. The guys blast on and ski from the summit.

Luca coming up.

I get great snow on the way down before it got hot. About 2 turns in a section 100 m wide ripped above the serac. Would have made a good photo from below.