Easter
I’ve never really got the whole Easter thing. I guess our family never really made a big deal of it, so since leaving full time education several years ago whenEaster simply means a bit of a holiday, I’m always vaguely surprised when a 4 day holiday comes around every year.
This year was brilliant, though. The weather gods decided to give skiers the gift of winter and it’s been dumping with snow here for ages. The day after the first big snowfall is always a little sketchy in terms of avalanche risk, so on Saturday instead of getting ourselves killed a bunch of friends went skiing in Les Houches instead - mainly to have lunch at the excellent Tannerie restaurant.
Easter Sunday, though…. I joined the second day of Mark Gear’s Advanced course on Grande Montets. It was still snowing and I’ve never seen it so deep up there. You could measure the new snow in metres. They opened the top lift at around midday, which had been closed since the snow started to fall. This is an incredible moment. When the top of the GM hasn’t been skied for a few days and you can get up there into some fresh, new snow it’s the best Chamonix has to offer. With buckets and buckets of snow up there, and Mark’s mountain knowledge and skill as an instructor, the 5 of us skiing with him knew that our runs off the top would be nothing short of epic. And we weren’t disappointed. It was some of the most amazing skiing I’ve ever done - look how deep it was!
And it’s still snowing! The season, which felt for a while that it was coming to a close has suddenly come back to life. It’s back to work for me to an extent, but I think this week will see some great skiing. I’m going to try to do something extreme I think - Maybe the Pas de Chevre or some unusual route off the Aiguille Du Midi.
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