tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54907368026609498122024-02-27T10:31:10.049+01:00Snow ChasersThe worldwide journey of a telemarker searching for powderBabichehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07493321561144335410noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490736802660949812.post-7018129217094144882018-02-22T02:10:00.000+01:002018-03-05T13:54:16.155+01:00Yurt-based backcountry skiing in Kazakhstan!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">With the snow that was falling in Almaty, we headed back to Alma-AkBulak to hit Ak-Bulak back. Snow-Forecast was calling for a bit over 20cm of freshy overnight, so we were both pretty excited. </span></div>
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We headed for first track since it was the first snowfall in almost 2 weeks. We were joined by only about 4 other persons at the first chair line-up!<br />
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Unfortunately for us, even if 20+cm of snow was forecasted, only 10-15 fell…<br />
Nevertheless, that snowfall greatly improved the snow conditions!<br />
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And with not people there to take advantage of it, we had a great pleasure to enjoy it pretty much to ourselves!<br />
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Ak-Bulak is really a great little resort with a lot of steep and nice little couloirs. One of the problem with this resort is that is it some kind of a wannabee resort. With no daylodge at the bottom, the only place that you can stop for a coffee or pee requires you to remove your ski boots to walk in!<br />
Anyway, even if the new snow wasn't much, it really helps to soften up the conditions.<br />
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Since the conditions were the best that we've seen so far on this Kazakh trip, we headed back for another day.<br />
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Even if the main under-the-chairlift runs were quite tracked out, it is fairly easy to find good conditions a little while after some fresh snow since not much people are out there getting it, since the area around the resort mostly consists of couloirs that you can access by traversing and a bit of bushwacking,<br />
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Ak-Bulak is somewhat lacking a proper day-lodge.<br />
The only place where we could stop for a coffee required to remove our ski boots!...Kind of strange for a day-lodge!<br />
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Following our meeting with Vitaliy, we've arrange to go to a yurt, he and a few colleagues are managing for the first year.<br />
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With Vitaliy's girlfriend just recently had ACL surgery, we were picked up by Igor and Tima. We were to be joined by Solomon, a guy from Moscow who fortunately for us was speaking a good English for the 3 days we were to spend at the yurt! Once there, we met another group of 3 who were there for the day.<br />
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The boys have set up a yurt for the first year about 2 hours from Almaty.<br />
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To access it, it was around an hour hike on a fairly solid trail with around 200m vertical.<br />
The yurt is nicely located, just next to a creek and a short distance walk from the mountain.<br />
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After dropping our stuff and getting some food in, we headed out for a run.<br />
The snowpack was thin and the trail fairly packed.<br />
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It hasn't snowed much since the last people came over to the yurt since the tracks were still quite apparent despite the new snow.<br />
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The hike up gave us a great view of the main mountain range accessible from the yurt.<br />
We also had a great view of the nearby mountain range over the next valley.<br />
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It was quite great to be in the mountain since we were able to leave the grey smog of Almaty and climb above the inversion.<br />
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The old ski tracks were really hard but beside the tracks was some nice snow even if some grass was peeking out of the snow!<br />
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We had just one lap and headed back to the yurt.<br />
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Once back at the yurt, Igor cooked a meat-less borsch for everyone that we all feasted -on! The yurt was surprisingly nicely equipped. With 8 bunk beds, a wooden stove, a 12V battery for lighting, 2 propane burners for cooking and even a generator for charging the battery; nothing was missing.<br />
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Since neither Amelie nor I were expecting such a yurt trip before going to Kazakhstan, we were sleeping-bag-less. We got 2 blankets each for the night which was expected to be cold.<br />
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The night was effectively cold with a -22 Celcius in the morning.<br />
It was the coldest night so far this winter at the yurt. With only a felt lining to insulate it, the night was rather cold despite the double blanket…<br />
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We waited a bit for the sun to show up before hitting the skintrack.<br />
It was a nice blue-bird day under which it was really nice to skin up despite the cold wind that was hitting the ridge.<br />
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Solomon hiked all the way to the top with snowshoes and no poles, making the 1000m vertical journey quite of a trek!<br />
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The view from the summit was spectacular; we even had view of Mt Talgar which peaks out near 5000m. But despite being spectacular, the mountains that we were able to see didn't bear too much snow.<br />
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For the run down, Igor guided us on a ridge that was falling down from the summit. There again, there were tracks which had harden out since they were put down.<br />
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Igor was leading and Tima was tail-guiding and asking us to stay as close as possible to the already put-down tracks. We skied a bit away from the tracks to get some freshie, but we were ask to stay close.<br />
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That led us to ski most of our turns next to some already put-down harden tracks onto a ridge that was mostly falling across the fall-line.<br />
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We I got at the bottom, I wasn't happy at all with the run we just did and where we were required to ski. It seems to me that we passed so many better slopes on the way up that it was really a waste to ski what we just have skied.<br />
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I told Igor that I really dislike that kind of skiing, so we headed back for a shorter run, but with some nicer snow! That run, despite being short-pitch, was really nice and after some really good turns, we headed back to the yurt to finish off the borsch and to get some whisky!<br />
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The second night was not as cold. With the whisky helping, we had a much better night of sleep.<br />
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Igor got a better understanding of the kind of skiing we were into. After some discussion about the plan of the day, we headed out for some nice really slopes that we walked by the day before. There were some really nice turns in there and we had the best turn of the trip so far on our first lap.<br />
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Then, we hiked back up for a second lap.<br />
We headed for a bowl that was offering a few good lines. We were hesitating at first to ski the slope since it was ending up in a terrain trap at the bottom but the stability of the run we did so far encourage us to ski it.<br />
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Just when we thought that we had some great turns on our first run, here we were linking even better turns in the open! We all linked great turns and whoop-whoop our way down!<br />
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Back at the yurt, we had a little snack and packed our stuff before heading down on skis back at the truck. A little slow-leak gave the chance to Amelie to hang out with the turkey before hitting to road back to Almaty.<br />
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All and all, that was quite an awesome yurt-based ski trip.<br />
We had some really awesome turns shared with some great company.<br />
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I really don't know how this yurt will turn out in a near future since there was a helicopter that brought some clients in the same area on the last day. Hopefully, it will turn out well as the area has a nice potential despite not seeing that much fresh snow.<br />
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Now back in Almaty for a few more days before heading back to Canada!<br />
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Evans Parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689617394538640858noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490736802660949812.post-57943777722317866222018-02-15T15:39:00.000+01:002018-02-22T13:52:42.020+01:00Kazakh impressive redneck ski set-up!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The first taxi driver who showed us at the <a href="http://almaakbulak.kz/" target="_blank">Alma-AkBulak hotel</a> to pick us up was not able to get us back to Almaty due to our large ski bags. The second taxi driver that was called to give us a ride saw no problem with our ski bag.<br />
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He just put them on his roof and attached them with some really not-that-much resistant tape! He actually didn't try to do more than half a turn on his rack roof and just rely on the glue of the tape to hold on the ski bags! Due to the status of the roads in Kazakhstan, I was certainly not sure of his technique. Especially after trying to move the ski bags after he strapped them on the roof and see almost no improvement of the no-tape-at-all technique! Anyhow, I grabbed his Kaztigertape and improved a bit his setup and off we were to go back to Almaty!<br />
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At our arrival at the hotel, since our room was not ready, we sat in the staircase while waiting. Thomas, a Russian guy, who was staying at the hotel ask us what we were doing there… and if we would like a drink… We ended up spending the last part of the afternoon drinking a local Kazakh cognac.<br />
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Since we didn't had lunch, we told him that we were in the need for some food. He said that it was no problem and that he would come with us. He ordered a taxi and first thing we know, we weren't in a restaurant, but in a Karaoke bar!!!<br />
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Fortunately for us, the bar was not only serving another bottle of cognac, but also food!<br />
We were really surprised by the Russian/Kazakh karaoke culture. We, as Canadian, see karaoke as a really good way to laugh at your equally drunk friend trying to sound accurate while singing songs that they know only half of the lyrics.<br />
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There was a group of women next to us who were actually singing really well… and drinking tea! They were really there solely for the pleasure of singing amongst friend.<br />
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But the most surprising thing for us was to find, within one of the 3 catalogues of songs, plenty of songs from Quebec!! We ended up singing some Robert Charlebois, Marjo, Les Cowboys Fringants and Jean Leloup to our fellow Russian speaking audience! When one of the lady realized that we were singing in French, she ordered a few songs of Lara Fabian which she was singing really well even if she could not speak a single word of French!<br />
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The following day, we met up with Vitaliy Rage. Vitaliy is a skier which is pushing the limit of skiing in Kazakhstan and developing the sport around Almaty via <a href="http://freeride.kz/">Freeride.kz</a> and <a href="http://powder.kz/">Powder.kz</a>. He put up a <a href="http://guidebook.powder.kz/" target="_blank">free guidebook online</a> about some backcountry runs that are available around Almaty and he is quite a resourceful person ski-wise for Kazakhstan. I think that anyone thinking about visiting Kazakhstan for skiing should contact him.<br />
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We spent a good 2-3 hours talking about skiing in Kazakhstan, the options, the snow, the best time to visit and also about the skiing in Canada. After a first coffee, that turned into two because we had so much to talk about, he led us to a good cheap restaurant from where we could buy some really tasty plov.<br />
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He pointed us a nice little tour that we could do. That would include a bus ride from Almaty to Medeu, skinning for a few hours towards Elik-Sai which is a kind of a cowboy-style ski place which is supposed to have a place to sleep and take a taxi back from there.<br />
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After leaving our luggage at the hotel where we were staying, we left with only our ski gear to take the bus. The bus from Almaty to Medeu was really crowded and we were pretty happy to have caught it at the first stop and to have a place for ourselves, our bags and our skis!<br />
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The trail that Vitaliy pointed us is used by a lot of people from Almaty as a hiking destination.<br />
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The ski conditions were really marginal. On the trail, it was fine, and the snow was solid enough to hike on it, but it was a different story when skiing down, the snowpack was shallow and the snow, not really consistent.<br />
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We ended up in the <a href="http://guidebook.powder.kz/" target="_blank">Butakovka Valley </a>which we hiked up a bit before traversing and skiing down towards Elik-Sai.<br />
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The snow was really sugary and non-consistent, and we were really careful skiing down and the snow was really sluffing a lot despite not being on a really steep slope which was a clear indication of the instability of the snowpack.<br />
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Elik-Sai was even with less infrastructure than what I was expected!<br />
We asked a guy who was doing mechanics on his truck in what was like the parking of the ski-hill if there was a room that we could rent for the night. After agreeing, he showed us a place that was pretty basic and a bit crappy, but since it looks like we could be warm sleeping, that was all we needed. It was located in a boat-shape building with what looks like different apartment where people seems to be living…<br />
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Then I asked him if there was anywhere that we could buy food. He kind of pointed really far-away so that I can understand that there was nothing around… Since there was like a little village of about 20-30 houses, I decided to check out if I could not find a place to buy food. After asking 3-4 different persons and walking around for around 1h30 following some vague indications in Russian, I ended up agreeing with a woman which agreed to cook us food for dinner. I went back to Elik-Sai to get Amelie and by the time we got back to the lady, dinner was ready and on the table!<br />
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She was really curious about how we got there and what we were doing there which, I do have to agree was unusual! After a really hearty dinner, we went back to our palace where we had a really good night of sleep.<br />
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The ski lifts at Elik-Sai consist only in a metal wire that is running up and which is powered by an electrical motor that you have to activate to get the metal wire going.<br />
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To use it, they handed us a belt with an aluminium handle at the end of a leach. That handle pries the metal wire and squeeze it. It provides enough friction to get you going up. At the top, there is a bunch of rubber lanyard that are forming a bumper that the handle hits and thus releasing itself from the metal wire. Once at the top, you have to look down if there is anyone coming up and if not, you got to stop the lift by pushing on the kill-switch.<br />
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I had a few laps by myself, but the conditions really needed a refresh.<br />
We skied and hike to the nearby Pioneer ski base to check it out since they had a proper T-Bar that Amelie could use. That ski-base is only a beginner place. There is some interesting slopes that are shown in Vitaliy's guidebook, but with the quality of the snowpack we decided not to try them.<br />
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We went back to Almaty the same night after finding someone in the village which could act as a taxi driver to drive us down to the city.<br />
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We spend a day in the city wandering around. It is really impressive the clash that there is between some really fancy stores (like a dedicated Bogner store) and the availability to eat a really nice lunch for 2$...With some new snow on the forecast, we left to head back towards Ak-Bulak which, with its really nice terrain should be a nice place to spend the next few days.<br />
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Following a pretty epic and (another) deep trip in Japan, I left my Dad at the Haneda airport and took the public transportation all the way to the Narita airport from where I was to fly out to Almaty, Kazakhstan!<br />
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I've never been to Kazakhstan, so I was really looking forward at this new adventure! My flight was from Tokyo to Moscow where I would meet my girlfriend Amelie at the airport and do the last leg of the travel together.<br />
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For an unknown reason, our flight to Almaty got delayed by 4 hours, turning our 4 hours layover into an 8 hour waiting session… Fortunately, I have brought back some sake from Japan that didn't last too long!<br />
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We eventually boarded and after a pretty miserable nap on the plane, we landed in Almaty.<br />
After dropping our luggage and doing a short nap, we left the hotel to discover the not-anymore capital of Kazakhstan. With the devaluation of the national currency (the Tenge) in 2015 by almost 40%, it is possible to enjoy the country at a really reasonable cost and feel like a queen as Amelie is showcasing!<br />
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We eventually stopped to get a coffee in a restaurant requested by Amelie who was having a much stronger jetlag than I was. I had to search back into my really limited knowledge of Cyrillic (or commonly named Russian) alphabet to figure out how to order a coffee!<br />
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Almaty is a real big and modern city (population around 1.8 million). I was expecting something similar to Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, but I could not have been more wrong! Of course, there are some crappy Russian-style-badly-looking building, but there are also some really nice and modern ones. One can certainly shop for a raw-bloody sheep head to a Swarovsky jewelry!<br />
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Kazakhstan, is to start, a much more modern and advance country than Kyrgyzstan. The streets of Almaty are wide and rather clean. It used to be the capital of Kazakhstan (and it's still its economic center), but the current president Nursultan Nazarbayev decided to move the capital to Astana in 1998. I was really surprised by how many pedestrian areas are present in Almaty making it really pleasant to stroll around town!<br />
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We eventually got dinner over a wine out of Crimea. I was first surprise to learn that some wine was produced in Crimea even though I knew that wine are produced everywhere on the planet, but after the first sip, I eventually understood why I never heard of it!<br />
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We spent the next day pretty much repeating our previous one as we hadn't overcome our jetlag…<br />
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The following day, we moved to an hotel located close to Shymbulak.<br />
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Shymbulak is the 'largest' and most upscale resort of Kazakhstan. Located only 30-40minutes out of Almaty, it is only a short trip for the population of Almaty to visit. The road that leads to the resort is closed to the general public. Only some taxis and a shuttle bus are allowed to make the trip up and down this really steep road. If you don't have any luggage, you can always make the trip to Medeu and take a gondola all the way to the ski base of Shymbulak.<br />
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We had to make a trip with one taxi from Almaty to Medeu and then change taxi to complete our journey to the Namaste 2000m hotel located between Shymbulak and Medeu.<br />
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We hiked up to the base of the resort to exercise a bit.<br />
As we got there, we certainly have the impression that we were in a European resort minus… that you could take pictures with an eagle at the base!<br />
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We eventually hit the slopes the following day after waiting for about an hour for the shuttle bus.<br />
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As we got to the top, it was obvious that a pretty strong wind event had occurred not too long ago. The ridges were stripped clean of their snow on one side. As for what was on the proper slopes, the conditions were rather hardpacked snow.<br />
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We tried to ski a bit around the resort, but everywhere we tried, we either hit some wind-hammered snow or a deep sugary bottomless snowpack typical of a continental climate.<br />
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Where there isn't that much snow in one place and when the temperatures are really cold, the whole snowpack turn non-consistent and sugary. When you try to ski it, one quickly sinks down and the buried hazard are then quite dangerous since you are pretty much skiing the rocks underneath!<br />
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This snowpack was somehow similar to what I experienced in Kyrgyzstan a few years back. We skied Shymbulak for another day trying and searching for some good skiable areas. <a href="http://snowchasers.blogspot.com/2012/02/near-miss-in-karakol.html" target="_blank">With the incident I had in Kyrgyzstan related to a shitty snowpack</a>, I wasn't much in the mood to venture too far on my first days of skiing.<br />
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The conditions of the snowpack could be due to a bit less snow this year than in average (around 70% of the normal from what we were told) and a really cold snap that happened in late January. Anyhow, that is too bad since the mountains around Shymbulak are really impressive and their ease of access is also quite phenomenal.<br />
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After packing up our stuff from the Namaste hotel, we jumped into a taxi for an almost 2 hours journey towards Ak-Bulak.<br />
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Ak-Bulak is the second largest ski resort in Kazakhstan.<br />
We arrived fairly late and we quickly had to exchange with the staff of the <a href="http://almaakbulak.kz/" target="_blank">Alma-AkBulak hotel </a>who was speaking a really limited (to non-existent…) English. A little phrasebook and Google Translate helping, we were able to understand each others! They are certainly compensating their lack of perfect English by the welcoming attitude!<br />
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Located a few kilometers down the road from the ski station, we had to jump into a taxi with an interesting ski-carriage technique! Taxi rides are always somewhat interesting!<br />
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Ak-Bulak is much steeper than Shymbulak.<br />
Its lower portion is rather flat, but its upper portion is really nice and steep! The wind, even if it was less than in Shymbulak left scars here as well!<br />
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There is also some slackcountry lookers left of the upper chairlift, but we were quickly warn (at every run!...) by the patrollers not to go there in plain simple terms: No guide, no go!<br />
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So we had to stay inbound… or kind-of.<br />
Fortunately, steeper portion of Ak-Bulak is not groomed at all and there is some really nice hidden couloirs that we could get to out of the sight of the patrollers.<br />
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The snowpack was slightly better, but not that great either.<br />
We were holding our horses a bit since we were hitting logs and stumps that were hidden a bit everywhere. It was much safer to ski where someone had previously skied than trying to ski an untracked area where our skis would usually sink all the way to the ground…<br />
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We skied it for another day.<br />
We couldn't help but be wondered how good this resort would be after a proper snowstorm or in good snow conditions! With steep and constant fall line, it is hard not to dream about hitting it with the right timing!<br />
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We are now in Almaty trying to figure out what our next adventure will be.<br />
There is different options in the sack, as taking a 18 hours bus north east towards Ridder, check out some apparent backcountry near Tekesu or move west towards Shymkent to check what the snow looks like around there.<br />
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As bummed as we are about the skiing conditions, we are pretty excited about the whole Kazakh mountains! Certainly, an interesting adventure to discover the mountains of Kazakhstan!<br />
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Stay tune for more non-planned mountain-discovery on skis!<br />
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So we left Hakuba and headed south towards Takayama.<br />
We didn't plan it, but we realized that it was quite a cool hanging around town and take picture in typical japanese style:<br />
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With a nice old town, we wandered around and got lost through some old winding streets.<br />
On our visit of the Hida Folk village, I found what looks like a no-board, but made with bamboo skis!<br />
A pair of it was only a bended slice of bamboo and the other was a few smaller pieces of bamboo tied together.<br />
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It was quite cool to try out and actually, I wasn't able to ski the bended slice of bamboo from the top of the hill all the way down since it was going too fast!!<br />
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We also made a day trip from Shirakawago to check out a village in which most houses actually have a straw roof. It is really impressive to see this construction still holding on and seeing how cold the houses are and we were really wondering (and still have not figured why), why the houses are not more insulated.<br />
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A really great proportion of the village actually have those houses and people are still using them as their main home!<br />
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We saw some big mountain around Shirakawago and we figured that there should certainly be some good skiing around!<br />
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We kept on driving south towards Gujo where my friend Yoshi, who I've met kayaking in Switzerland is living.<br />
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He let us stay at his cabin which is locating not that far from his home and just by the river.<br />
During dinner with is family, Yoshi told me that he was actually skiing a day ago in the mountains near Shirakawago that we just scoped out!<br />
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After showing me photos of its day, a plan was made to make the 2 hours drive back there for a little tour!<br />
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Surprisingly, even if only one day have elapsed since its day out, the skintrack was covered!<br />
As there wasn't anyone else there, we had to proceed to some really deep trailbreaking!<br />
In some places, the snow was even mi-thigh deep!<br />
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Yoshi led me onto a nice ridge and we skied down in a really nice opening which was really deep and light!<br />
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I was totally amazed on how deep and light the snow was!<br />
It was actually hard to take pictures on which Yoshi do not only look as a big snowball!<br />
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We didn't make it all the way up and lapped the trees as a second lap!<br />
It was also really good in there!<br />
It is really a nice area, but according to Yoshi, we kind of hit it at a perfect timing.<br />
This area usually do not see snow as often as Hakuba and can get quickly spoiled by the sun and warm temperature.<br />
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With only 2 days left on our Japan journey, we left Yoshi's place to make it to Tokyo to check out this crazy big city.<br />
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On our first day there, we kicked ourselves early to head out to check the Tokyo's famous fish market.<br />
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This market is the busiest in the world regarding sea products. There is around 2000 tons of products that are sold each day in there. Everything is happening in quite an hectic way. I cannot say that I'm close to understand how everything is happening in there!<br />
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It is so crazy and have attracted so many tourists that we are not usually allowed in until 10h00Am when the action is almost done because we are getting in the way of the action. We sneaked in before, but we were quickly showed out by the security.<br />
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We went back there when everything calms down.<br />
The is quite some craftsmen ship slicing and preparing those red tuna.<br />
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After this crazy show, we kept on exploring and wandering in various Tokyo neighbourhood (as well as trying the craziest massage chair I've ever seen!). Even Mario Kart since to be strolling around the city!<br />
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We repeated the metro hoping for another day.<br />
I cannot say that I'm much a city guy, but Tokyo is certainly quite a crazy place to check out!<br />
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After checking my Dad to check out his luggage at the Haneda airport, I hoped on the train to make the 2 hours journey to Narita where I am taking a flight to head to Kazakhstan!<br />
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Interesting adventure awaits and as my grandma was alway saying:<br />
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After surviving the wild ride on the ferry...<br />
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Apparently some folks were having less trouble than me!<br />
We headed from Niigata to Hakuba.<br />
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What is nice when you are chasing snow is that you have the chance to drive through some really nice snowstorm…<br />
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After having some really nice days last year in Hakuba Cortina, we headed straight there. Since there is no alpine in this resort, I was confident that lifts would be spinning and that everything would be open.<br />
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Well, I was mistaken…<br />
When we showed up at the resort, I was surprised by how few people were there to enjoy the pow! I quickly understood that the top lifts (lift #4 and lift #5) would be closed all day for some avalanche shaddy safety reason…<br />
We were than left only with some beginner lifts to ski on.<br />
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We eventually figured out that we could climb up above one of them to ski onto a run where pretty much no one have touch with 40cm of snow on it!<br />
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Unfortunately, at the end of the first run, my Dad when head first and on its shoulder onto a cat-track that we could see due to the low visibility. Since it looked only as a bruised shoulder, we kept skiing the run was so good that we lapped it a few times!<br />
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Beside the cat-track that are only a constant danger on low visibility day, it seems that there was other danger around on this resort!<br />
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We found out that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HakubaCortinaResort/" target="_blank">Hakuba Cortina is posting on its Facebook page </a>the lift status and snow report around 7h00AM each day.<br />
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The following day, since we were able to figure out that the same lifts at Hakuba Cortina would not be spinning, we headed out to Hakuba 47. We picked up my friend Tree and her boyfriend Stefan who just got in town.<br />
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Hakuba 47 have this special regulation about some certain tree skiing area.<br />
In order to legally ski those areas, you need to follow a useless 10minutes lesson. Following this lesson, they handed you a bib.<br />
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Problem is that the legal area is fairly small and it is getting tracked out by around 4 laps.<br />
We were then left to either ski some skied out runs and tree areas or poach some untrack trees… Guess what?! We quickly ended up poaching the non-legal trees!<br />
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Poaching trees as well as skiing right under the chairlift, when it is not allowed is not ideal to take pictures, so there is no trace of this skiing!<br />
We lapped it until the patrollers start catching people who were joining us in the tree poaching!<br />
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The lift got eventually got shutdown around 3PM after quite a good day of skiing!<br />
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Since my Dad's shoulder was not really moving well, we went up to the doctor after the day.<br />
30 minutes later, we were out of there with a diagnostic: most likely a torn rotator cuff.<br />
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The doctor also made it clear that my Dad should not be skiing anymore!<br />
Especially after the third time he asked in a different way if he could keep on skiing! ;)<br />
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With my Dad out of skiing, I rallied up with Tree and Stefan to hit Hakuba Cortina which upper lifts should open after two days of constant snowfall which left around 80cm or so…<br />
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We weren't the only one that got the memo and there was plenty of people who showed up to enjoy the freshies!<br />
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We furiously lapped the resort trees which were pretty epic!<br />
The snow was exactly as you would want it: deep, light and bottomless!!<br />
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We also lapped the backside of the resort from where you can make you way back to the resort easily through a cat-track.<br />
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Cortina is, in my humble opinion, the best resort in Hakuba on a snow day.<br />
The fact that you are skiing mostly in the trees, creates some pockets and stashes where the snow stays good for a good full day of skiing.<br />
The patrollers also let you ski everywhere which is really not that common in Japan.<br />
The resort is also not grooming the powder unlike Happo-one which usually make sure there is as less fresh pow available as possible!<br />
You can also traverse and ski the backside with quite an easy way back to the resort. But since every run on the backside takes about an hour or so to lap, the snow doesn't get hammer too quickly!<br />
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We went back the following day for another powder-shredding session which got a nice 50cm refresh overnight!<br />
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Hakuba not being quite a touristic destination beside skiing, my Dad was quite bored after 2 days of hanging around.<br />
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It was heart tearing to leave Hakuba since there was still some fresh snow that was requesting my shredding services to go play the tourist, but I kind of feel like I had to rallied up with my partner buddy.<br />
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Looks like there is much more sightseeing of the forecast than turns for the few days that we have left in Japan! I guess, I'll be able to catch up the close to no-sightseeing I've done on my previous 5 trips in Japan!<br />
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The forecast was right about the rain.<br />
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It rained everywhere around Hakuba, Myoko and Nozawa Onsen all the way to the mountain top.<br />
With not much snow on the forecast for the upcoming days and no rain reported in the resort in the northern part of Honshu, after a hearty breakfast, we packed our gear and hit the road for an 8 hours drive.<br />
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I've heard great things about Hachimantai.<br />
This tiny resort was supposed to have some nice trees just next to its boundary that you can ski. While not being legal, it was supposed to be tolerated by the patrol. That area is just left of the runs that are forming a 'Y' on the following picture.<br />
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I guess that intel changed, since as we made it to the top of the resort, they made it somewhat clear that it was not allowed! There was also not even a single track!<br />
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We nevertheless poached it once.<br />
As reported, the trees are nicely spaced and the angle steady and there was no trace of a rain crust.<br />
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On our following lap, there was a patrol looking around and making sure no one would re-poached it.<br />
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We followed other tracks on the lookers far right side onto quite a mellow balade all the way down to a closed road.<br />
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Since that wasn't much of a great interest, we were kind of forced to ski inbounds.<br />
The on-piste that are offered in this little resort has close to no interest. As the temperature got really warm, the groomed runs soften, but after a few laps, we were kinda bored…<br />
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Snow forecast of Geto Kogen were of 15cm of snow for the upcoming night.<br />
We drove the hour and a half south to make it to this renowned powder magnet.<br />
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I've skied Geto Kogen<a href="http://snowchasers.blogspot.jp/2010/02/roadtrippin-northern-honshu.html" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://snowchasers.blogspot.jp/2010/02/roadtrippin-northern-honshu.html" target="_blank">a few years back</a> and I've kept a good memory of it.<br />
There was effectively some nice snow, but that was laid over a crust that formed yesterday due to the warm temperature.<br />
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With no new snow on the forecast for at least 3 more days, we faced the dilemma of either waiting 3 days for it to come or drive even further north to Aomori and catch a ferry to Hokkaido where new snow was reported.<br />
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The latest won and after grabbing some warm canned coffee, here we were driving again and heading to Aomori to catch the ferry to Hokkaido!<br />
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Fingers crossed that the conditions would gets epic again!<br />
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We took the ferry from Aomori to Hakodate.<br />
We had an early start in order to meet Stéphane Gagnon and his son Guillaume to do some backcountry around Niseko.<br />
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The Yotei was really tempting, but with some snow and clouds forecasted for the afternoon,<br />
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We parked on the East side of Shiribetsu in order to avoid the crowds that are hiking the south side from the lifts of Rusutsu.<br />
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There weren't too many people there and we found some really nice snow.<br />
We had to be careful not to ski towards the southerly or westerly aspect since the warm temperature of the previous days built a slight crust underneath.<br />
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It was probably the biggest delegation of Xalibu skis ever happening in Japan! Since the four of us were rocking those planks!<br />
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We had two laps and the second one being even better than the first one, since it was more on a east-north-east aspect.<br />
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Following Stéphane's recommendation, we aimed to Nimi Onsen to check out the backcountry. I've never heard of it, but apparently, it is becoming a classic area for backcountry skiing near Niseko.<br />
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Past Niseko Moiwa, just follow the indications towards Nimi Onsen. The road eventually stops there. We climbed through the forest onto an adjacent ridge, but as we stepped in the open, the wind was really howling hard!<br />
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We dropped lower in order to get some shelter from the wind.<br />
The snow in the forest was nice, steady and light.<br />
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We aimed to climb onto a different aspect, but as we moved higher, the wind was also quite present and rapidly building a nice wind slab. We removed our skins and ski down since it was useless to keep climbing up.<br />
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We heard some sledding going on and eventually got to an area where it was really thrashed by snowmobile tracks! I don't know where they parked and/or where they were coming from, but it was my first encounter with sledders in Japan.<br />
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The area around Nimi Onsen is a bit confusing.<br />
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With some more snow and wind forecasted for the following day, we drove to Otaru.<br />
Otaru is quite a nice little Hokkaido town that worth checking out. Despite being a bit touristy, there is some really nice old building quite well preserved.<br />
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After a quick stop at the convenient store in order to get a nice bowl of greasy noodle for breakfast, we aimed to Kiroro to check out the conditions of the backcountry there. Kiroro is really trying to control the access through the backcountry and positioning the resort as a backcountry mecca. Unfortunately, you need to sign up, tell you itinerary and enter through a gate and exit from the same gate which I feel is really restraining the feeling of freedom of going backcountry skiing.<br />
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Kiroro has put up some gates and restrained to access to the area located behind the Tribute Portfolio Hotel. There are now signs every 200-300m to tell you that the access behind is not allowed anymore. There was really a lot of people there going to the backcountry. With not that much snow lately,<br />
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We figured that if we couldn't see a sign from where we would be entering towards the backcountry, it must be all right!<br />
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We went straight behind the hotel and hike to the slope located behind.<br />
The sometimes 50cm of trail breaking through some really nice and soft snow was really getting us excited!<br />
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The snow was effectively perfect!<br />
So perfect that we lapped it 5 times!<br />
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With such perfect snow, the skiing gets really easy and brainless… which is really a kind of skiing that I appreciated greatly!<br />
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Here we were after quite an awesome day of backcountry facing a big dilemma.<br />
Either stay on Hokkaido were some snow was forecasted but where some high winds were also forecasted or take the ferry back to Honshu in order to catch and even bigger forecasted snowstorm with less wind.<br />
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Having spent quite some times on Hokkaido on my previous trips, we decided to go for the uncertainty of going towards Honshu were I had some really deep days last winter.<br />
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I am now fighting sea sickness on the ferry which is getting rocked by some fairly big wave.<br />
Hope the forecast is right!</div>
Evans Parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689617394538640858noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490736802660949812.post-38713810613573599032018-01-19T11:18:00.001+01:002018-01-19T11:18:42.943+01:00Back to Japan!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To start, the 2018 edition of the snowchasing trip, I decided to visit what is quickly becoming a classic around the world: Japan.<br />
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I’ll be road tripping for a bit more than 3 weeks with my old man. From here, I plan to leave and aim to Kazakhstan where I should meet with my girlfriend for another 3 weeks.<br />
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I should then return home for a short stay and then take-off for the Pyrenees and the Alps.<br />
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For my 6th trip to Japan, I decided to try to check out some new (as well as to revisit some classic) on Honshu.<br />
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With some resort reporting already over 6m of snowfall, it looked quite promising!<br />
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After picking up the car in Tokyo and driving across the island to Nagano, which is quite a nice hub to check out various areas since it is around an hour drive to Myoko, Nozawa Onsen and Hakuba.<br />
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We decided to start by checking Arai Lotte. This resort opened during what really looked like a bubble and was closed for the past years, but due to the number of foreigners visiting to ski each year, the place re-opened in December 2017.<br />
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When we showed up, the resort was quite empty.<br />
The terrain is quite nice with a decent vertical and steepness.<br />
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Unfortunately, all the areas starting from Mt Okenashi was closed due to an incident that happened a few weeks back. A ski patroller told us that this zone would probably reopen in a few weeks….<br />
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On the other side, it was possible to poach the Strickly Off-limit zone without being to harass by the patrollers. That left fresh snow all day, until closure!<br />
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We were really impress by the snow (around 40cm) that dumped overnight. Especially when Myoko only a few kilometers away didn’t received much. Apparently, the location of Arai Lotte closer to the see, makes it a snow magnet even stronger than the resorts around Myoko.<br />
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From Arai, we made our way closer to Nozawa Onsen.<br />
I really like this resort. With a real town at its base and not too other foreigners, there is really something cool about skiing there. The resort is also layout in such a way that there is plenty of room to find some good lines between the runs.<br />
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It snowed a bit overnight and there wasn’t too much snow in town. We were aiming to the resort without too much in mind, but still early enough to catch first chair!<br />
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We were rewarded with another overnighter of 40cm!<br />
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After lapping furiously a few of the legal runs, we aimed for the trees where we were able to find some awesome lines all day until closure!<br />
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With no new snow on the forecast, we made our mind to check out the backcountry starting from the top of Yamabikho quad chair.<br />
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From behind the big telecommunication tower, it is possible to ski down into the backside. Plenty of skiers ski across the fall line to catch up a trail to make hour way back to the resort, but if you ski fall line, it is much better!<br />
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After this short (150-200m) run.<br />
Hike back up towards the col and up to the adjacent mountain. That will lead you on the top of another 200m long run.<br />
From there, instead of going back to the resort, put your skins on your skis and climb onto the snow cover road up. Once you reach the col, aim left onto the adjacent mountain. You will now stand on top of a 200m long run of perfectly spaced birch trees! (See below, red for skiing, blue for hiking up)<br />
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It also looks like there is quite a nice long run towards the backside, but it was a bit wind hammered to check it out.<br />
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Check out the <a href="http://dkgd.gsi.go.jp/dkgx/page1.htm" target="_blank">Japanese online topo maps </a>if you want to explore around!<br />
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It was so good and so quiet that we decided to lap it for another day. We saw pretty much no one there.<br />
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One of the reason of our visit to Nozawa was to check out the Fire festival (Dōsojin). This is the most touristic event of Nozawa which happened on every January 15th.<br />
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You can read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozawaonsen,_Nagano" target="_blank">here</a> if you want to have the full proper detailed description.<br />
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A group of 40ish year old men are standing on the top of a wooden shrine which is defended by a group of 25-year-old men. The goal for the villager is to try to light up the shrine by using bundle of light up straw.<br />
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The festival starts with a group of really drunk men bringing some light-up straws.<br />
In order to make it real, we can barely stand and are going straight to the crowd and dropping embers and ashes on them! My Dad got his nice jackets and blacked out and puncture by the embers…<br />
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Then, after some drum music, the real show starts.<br />
First the kids who all gets a light up straw bundle.<br />
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The now try to light up the shrine which is defend by some drunk 25-year-old males.<br />
In order to try to light up the structure, they really smash the light up straw onto the defenders who then try to knock off the fire.<br />
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After about 30-50 assaults, the defender kinda won it since there was no straw bundle left…<br />
So, they light up the structure and let it burn!<br />
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One thing for sure, it is quite a crazy happening that defy all and every bit of safety one can dream of!<br />
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With some heavy rain on the forecast, we are most likely going to move up towards northern Honshu to check out the conditions where it should still be winter!<br />
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Cheers!!!<br />
Evans<br />
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It was again dumping on our way to Nozawa and we woke up to (another) 50cm of snow overnight...<br />
Since Nozawa Onsen has a constant supply of hot water from its thermal sources, they use the heat and the water to melt the snow on the street!<br />
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What is really cool about Nozawa Onsen is that its a town that as been there for hundreds of years. You have to walk through town with your ski boots to make it to the lifts.<br />
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One of the problem with Nozawa is that they are grooming a lot....<br />
Even the fresh powder!<br />
There is only a few designated runs where they do not groom it...<br />
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It is also quite flat in a lot of places...<br />
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BUT!!!<br />
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On the upside, the competition for freshies is way less than in Hakuba1<br />
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... and since the tree skiing is not allowed but since this rule is not stricly enforce, there are a lot of good turns to do out-of-bounds!<br />
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We spent most of our day lapping the trees under the Hikage gondola.<br />
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It has been nearly a week of constant snowfall and we were really struggling to dry our goggles and gloves in our non-heated campervan... at this point, Amelie was almost getting tired of the snow...<br />
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It was interesting to see the struggle of the resident of Nozawa Onsen that were trying to keep up with the gigantic amount of snow what was falling!<br />
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It snowed again 20cm overnight but, for once, the sun seemed to be nearby!<br />
We made it to the Hikage Gondola by using a really long (and free) escalator that connect the gondola base to the village.<br />
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I guess you know your car need to be shoveled when you see Japanese people taking picture in front of your car!!!<br />
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There was a bit of an inversion early in the morning that eventually disappeared.<br />
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The snow was really nice and dry and it was pretty cool to see a little bit as we were skiing!!<br />
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The big weather system that brought constant snowfall in the past week was now officially over! On our side, we were pretty toasted by the full week of opening-till-closure skiing!<br />
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I got pressured not to ski on our last ski day by Amelie who’s knee have had growing pain during the past seven days. I didn’t exactly accepted all smile out, but let her win anyway...<br />
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After a breakfast picnic made over a foot-onsen, we left Nozawa Onsen to try to see the snow monkeys.<br />
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As we made it to the nearby snow monkey park, we were somehow informed that the park was closed due to the last snow storm. To reach the monkeys, a 30 minutes hike is required and the management wasn’t able to keep up cleaning the snow and keeping the footpath open.<br />
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There was nevertheless a slight chance to see them since, they were apparently pretty often making their way to a nearby onsen.<br />
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We made our way to this nearby onsen and they were there!<br />
By looking at a bunch of adults getting all excited about seeing a few monkeys, I was really wondering who were the monkeys after all!!<br />
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After spending about an hour looking at monkeys not bigger than a small dog, we made our way back to the car.<br />
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We now had to drive to make our way back to Tokyo from where we were flying out the following day.<br />
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We dropped Caro to a nearby hostel since whe was staying in Japan for another 3 weeks and hit the highway.<br />
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The highway in Japan are fairly expensive, but they probably save you around half of the time than if you use the national roads.<br />
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We blindly followed the GPS and had to traverse the downtown Tokyo highway system.<br />
That was quite an experience. I dont’ know which road we followed on our way out of Tokyo, but it was just a puzzle of highways that criss-crossed each others this time!<br />
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We stopped in various rest area on our way to the airport since we have previously bumped into some that were boasting showers. Despite their Disneyland-look, none of the one at which we stopped had showers.<br />
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We had planned to shower at the airport, but due to deficient time management, only Amelie had time to shower before going through immigration and customs.<br />
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Since I’ve already checked-in my luggage and didn’t want to jump into clean clothes before cleaning a bit myself, I ended up going from the drop-off to our gate in my skiing underwear!<br />
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I managed to have some kind of cleaning 5 minutes before changing in clean clothes and boarding!<br />
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All and all, it was another awesome trip in Japan!<br />
Despite being my 5th trip, I manage to ski mostly places where I’ve never had good snow in epic conditions! I don’t if I would rather go to Honshu of Hokkaido on my next trip, but I really like to opportunity to be flexible on the destination on this trip!<br />
Now on my way to Calgary where I will catch up with my Quebec friends Etienne, Babiche and Nic before rallying with JS in Golden.<br />
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From there, we’ll fly in to a hut in the Purcell where we’ll spend the week!<br />
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Cheers,<br />
evans<br />
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We met Dave on the ferry. We managed to squeeze him in the back of the van for the 5 hours drive from Niigata to Hakuba. Dave has spent a few season in Hakuba and according to him and his connection in Hakuba, there wasn’t any sign of snow in Hakuba. Weirdly, it was dumping on the coast and the drive was nowhere relax.<br />
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As we dropped in at the Hakuba Powder Lodge, his friends added a layer of doubt to our concerns. They were saying that the forecast will be wrong and that the snow will all fall in the ocean.<br />
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We went to bed a bit concerned about the choice we made to leave Hokkaido!<br />
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Fortunately, the forecast was right and we woke up to a nice foot of fresh snow<br />
We headed up to Hakuba 47 to check out the new delivery of white gold!<br />
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By looking at the right places, it was possible to find some nice deep pocket of snow!<br />
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Around 15-20cm of snow fell overnight!!<br />
Weirdly, signs were still present about the thin cover!<br />
I've seen some quite more marginal conditions in resort without any warning...<br />
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We were both pretty happy about this first day in Hakuba!<br />
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After a little drying session of about an hour in the day lodge, we caught up with Caroline, a friend of ours from Quebec that would be joining us for the coming week. The snow was falling heavily!<br />
Here is what piled up on the car during our drying session!<br />
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As we woke up the following morning, we had an hard time to open the slide door of the van as the overnight snow had piled up about 15cm above the lowest part of the door! There was probably around 50-60cm of snow in the parking lot!!!<br />
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Needless to say that we were really excited!<br />
One of the problem we face was the fact that two buses were blocking the nearby entrance and the second problem was that the parking lot wasn’t plowed at all!!<br />
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As Amelie was cleaning the van and installing the chain on our 2WD van, I shoveled a trail out of the far end of the parking lot!<br />
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We made it out of the parking lot on our first try but as we were driving to pick up Caro, one of the chains broke. We stop to quickly remove the broken chain and left the other one in place.<br />
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We manage to make it to the parking lot of Hakuba 47. Without any other breakdown. There were a lot of snow in the parking lot as some cars who were left there overnight were almost totally buried!<br />
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We were later than expected, but the resort was experiencing opening delay due to the amount of snow!<br />
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Word was out that some other resort in the Hakuba valley were already fully open and there was no confirmation about when Hakuba 47 was to open.<br />
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We stayed figuring it was already a bit late to change plan and to drive to the other end of the valley. That ended up being quite a good call since about 10 minutes after a lot of people left, the ticket office announced the opening delay would be only 30minutes!!<br />
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We lapped the resort all day.<br />
As the snow was fairly heavy, the conditions deteriorated over the afternoon.<br />
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The backcountry policy of Hakuba 47 is not the most progressive one and a lot of the tree skiing is closed. Nevertheless, since a lot of people were already putting tracks in the closed area, we ducked the rope and made it there as the snow was still pretty awesome!<br />
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The following morning, we headed out to Hakuba Cortina.<br />
With around 50cm of new snow overnight, the conditions promised to be quite awesome!<br />
This tree skiing there is not restricted and the terrain is steeper than in Happo One or Hakuba 47.<br />
It is also the resort with one of the most open policy about backcountry in the Hakuba Valley<br />
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Those characteristics also made it one of the most prized resort for westerners who are looking for fresh powder!<br />
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Despite being there about 45 minutes before the opening, we were far from making first chair!<br />
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It kept on snowing heavily all day and probably around 25cm fell during the day.<br />
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By the end of the day, we got tempted by dropping on the backside of the resort.<br />
From the top of the chairlift, you can easily traverse and drop in the backcountry which consist of some really nicely spaced trees.<br />
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Just follow the tracks and make your way back to Cortina chairlift no.7 for some really nice accessible slackcountry!<br />
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It was so good that we returned for more the following day.<br />
With another 50cm of new snow, it seemed to be almost too good to be true!<br />
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We arrived a bit earlier than the preceding day, but the word must have been out that the conditions were pretty epic since there was a lot of people who showed up.<br />
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To line up in the morning, the people just lay their skis in the lift line.<br />
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We lapped again the resort and the slackcountry from opening to closure!<br />
It is really a nice resort! Certainly the best one in the Hakuba valley for some storm skiing!<br />
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With solely 30cm overnight, we returned (again) to Cortina for more!!<br />
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With a better knowledge about how the resort is layed out and making almost first chair, we had some really great turns inbound!<br />
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In the afternoon, we skinned a bit further in the backcountry.<br />
The scenery and the light was pretty awesome.<br />
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The snow was also quite magic....<br />
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After 5 quite awesome days, we left Hakuba for Nozawa Onsen where an equal part of snow has already fallen and where more snow is forecasted in the next 2 days.<br />
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Snowpocalypse to be continued!!<br />
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<span lang="FR-CA">I was join half an hour after my arrival by
Etienne, Nic and Babiche from Quebec with whom we’ve planned a a hut trip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The plan was fairly simple : rent a
car, shop for some supplies for a week of food, drive to Golden, meet JS who
was driving from Vancouver, take a short helicopter fly in and spend a week
skiing in a backcountry hut.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The planification of that trip started in
the fall by finding a cabin suitable for what we wanted to do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Our critera were cheap, good terrain, non
catered, non-guided. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Since most of the huts are reserve around a
year in advance, we were pretty late to choose a cabin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">My friend Martin spotted the Kingsbury hut
when he did the Bugaboos to Rogers Pass traverse and tought that there could be
some good terrain to ski. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">This hut is managed by the <a href="http://cvhsinfo.org/cms/kingsbury-hut/">Columbia Valley Hut Society</a>
which manage a few other cabin in the Purcells including the more famous Jumbo
Pass hut. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">One can access the hut by hiking to it, but
it is quite a slog and not really what we wanted to do. As you cannot sled to
this hut, you need to fly. To access this hut, we used Alpine Helicopter who
can fly you in for around 1750$ return...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">After buying the required supply to fuel up
5 guys for 7 days, we left Calgary to drive to Golden.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We meet up with JS in late evening in a
cheap AirBnB that we rented and where we repacked all our stuff in small
package to try to make it fit in the helicopter.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We woke up the following morning and made
our way to the heli-pad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">After getting everything that we wanted to
bring along on some carts that got weighted, all of us has to jump on the
scale. Conclusion : too heavy for the heli...</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We also had a volume problem...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We started going around what we had and
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<span lang="FR-CA">We eventually got most of the must-have in
the heli and we took off just as the sunrise was happening. The view was pretty
spectacular at this time of day and as we were going over ridges and crossing a
few valleys, we got pretty excited!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">We eventually arrived at the hut where we
got all our stuff out of the heli and watch it fly away as it was leaving us
for a week at the cabin!</span><br />
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<span lang="FR-CA">As the day was really nice, we repacked
quickly our daypack and left the cabin to enjoy a day out and to start to have
a feeling for the snow around. We headed just behind the cabin to check out the
terrain and review our beacon searching technique.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The terrain above the cabin is mostly
alpine and does not offer some nice long vertical runs. We did some nice short
laps and got really excited about the snow that we had.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We got back to the cabin and enjoy some
beer straight out of the 30l keg that we managed to bring along!</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The following day did not offer as good
visibility as the previous day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">After climbing just behind the cabin for a
few hundred meters, we skied down in the trees all the way to Bobby Burns
creek. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The skiing in the trees was good and we
found some nice openings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We then made our way on the other side of
the valley where we had some good laps on the moraine not too high up so that
we could have some visibility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We were all pretty stocked about our first
full day of touring and we again enjoyed some beer on the patio and some
grilled cheese!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We brought a lot of food to the hut,
including a big piece of meat on which we had planned to cook steak. Luckily,
as we were looking under the cabin for some firewood, we found a BBQ!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">It was a bit hard to get the BBQ hot enough
at -15Celcius to properly seize steaks, but the end result was pretty good!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We had a little bit better view the
following day, so after hiking around a 100m higher than the cabin, we skied
down to Bobby Burn creek and traverse on the other side of the valley. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We spotted some runs from the otherside of
the valley that could be interesting to hit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">After checking a little bit more the
snowpack, we skied down not too, too convince that the stability was that
awesome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Actually, the avy forecast kept on
repeating that two bad layers were reacting to the passage of a single skier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We all found some great lines in some
terrain that was not too exposed.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Coming back to the hut, we were all pretty
stoked about that terrain that was not too steep or not too expose to lay some
turns.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We enjoy some drinks enjoying the view of
Mt Battlefied and Mt International as the alpenglow was setting down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The next morning brought a much lower
ceiling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">It was some kind of weird weather since we
could sometimes see the sun, but we could also easily loose the visibility...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We went back to the same area on the other
side of Bobby Burn creek and skied some similar runs that we did the day
before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">One of the really good thing about this hut
is that you kind of have a full valley only for yourself to use. So as long as
the snow is good, you can enjoy it without having to share it!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As usual, we feast on this awesome day with a return snack on the porche of the cabin!<br />
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<span lang="FR-CA">As Babiche was already a bit tired, he left
early with the plan to cook the meat we have brought over as a roast-beef in
the wood stove!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">That was SOOOO good!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">I don’t know why but it seems that food
taste better in remote locations!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">With a little better visibility, we set out
to ski a couloir that was tempting us since we arrived.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Located just behind the cabin, it was
probably around 500m long and not too steep. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">After bootpacking our way up in tits deep
surface hoar snowpack, we eventually got to the top of the run.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We were a little bit concern both from what
we saw on the way up and from the exposure that we underestimated. At the top
of the run, the snowpack was not much better and after hesitating a bit, we
back-tracked and hiked our way down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reviewing glacier travel and crevasse rescue technique as we were planning to
go up on Mt Battlefield. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Since from the maps and satellite images,
there were a few small glacier to cross and a few of the guys didn’t have any
experience , it was really cool to review some of that technique. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The following morning, we woke up to a
beautiful clear blue sky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The climb up to Mt Sibbald is pretty
straight forward. We roped up on the way up despite not seeing any crevass or
sign of it on the way up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">As we walked back to the hut, the sun
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<span lang="FR-CA">The wind picked up overnight and the ridges
got cleared up of the snow overnight. We left the hut to check out how the snow
was around our little treed area. The visibility was on and off, but we managed
to have some good turn before the visibility and the windcrust worsten. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">For our last day at the hut, we skied in
the trees just adjacent from the hut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Leaving East from the hut, we went down in an opening that we scouted from the other side of
the valley. Top part was good as the snow was nicely protected, but the lowest
part got fairly cliffy. We found our way down all the way to the Bobby Burn
creek, but it was kind of hard to link turns in the bottom part. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We made our back not too late to finish
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<span lang="FR-CA">The helicopter was right on time and we
packed all our stuff in as the blade kept spinning above us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">As we took off, we were able to see our
tracks below. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We figured we did a pretty good job lapping
the terrain surrounding the hut!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">With the tracks we have laid around and now
that the wind got a lot of the alpine and since that there is not that much
options in the trees, there won’t be that many options for the following party
to ski on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">It was a really good week all together and
we were figuring that we got really lucky with the weather and the quality of
the snow that we got!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Living in the hut, not having reception and
living the chilled relaxed life of only having to ski was really nice and we
all enjoyed it quite a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">I don’t we’ll go back there soon since it
was so good that we would most likely be disappointed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">I think that with some visibility, it is a
really great hut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">If there is not that much visibility, there
is not that many really good options. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">I would not recommend going to that hut on
a really stormy week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">If the weather is not too bad, it is quite
a nice place to ski and hangout. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">That first hut trip will certainly not be the last!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Now off to Rogers!</span></div>
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Evans Parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689617394538640858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490736802660949812.post-31808005514520852962017-01-20T19:28:00.002+01:002017-01-20T19:28:44.387+01:00Epic day on Mt Yotei!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="FR-CA">From Teine, we moved towards Kiroro. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">This rather flat resort has been having the
best start of the season in all Japan, so we figured out it would be a great
option. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">As we got there, we realized it is now a
fairly hectic process to register for the backcountry around Kiroro. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">A little bit disgusted by all of the
process, we headed out in the backcountry behind the hotel. No one is there to
verify that you have register and is not as crowded as the rest of the
backcountry available from the top of the resort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">To head to the backcountry, just start near
the newly build church. From there, the climb is pretty much just straight
ahead until you hit a cat-track that you follow until the end of the ridge.
From there, just climb the ridge to access some fairly nice terrain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">It was really nice to hit some nice terrain
not as bushy from what we experienced down in Honshu!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We lapped different lines around this
ridge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Some were treed, some were steep, but all
of them shared the same nice powder!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">This is certainly a great option for nice
soft skiing in low visibility!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We caught up with Alexa and Jerome a the
end of the day, two fellow Quebecers, that we met on the plane and that we
bumped into again the day before in Teine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">They had in plan to climb the Mt Yotei the
following day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Mt Yotei is a really aesthetic volcano that
is possible to see once in a while from Niseko. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">With the weather calling for a really nice
high pressure the following day, we decided to join them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Since we had not brought up our crampons
nor or ice axes, we figured that we could climb until the conditions would be
too hard to climb any higher and ski down from there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We were certainly not the only one who have
made the plan to climb up this iconic peak!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The climb start in a forest for about
600-700m, then, as we were getting out of the trees, we also made it out of the
clouds and above of a pretty cool inversion!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We kept on skinning for a few more hundreds
meter before we had to change to bootpack to make it to the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conditions to climb were really not as
hard as expected and with the amount of people on the mountain on this day, the
bootpack was nicely packed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We decided to have lunch break a few meter
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<span lang="FR-CA">After stripping the skins from our skis and
preparing for the descent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">As we make it to the edge of the crater, we
saw multiple lines starting from the nearby rim and dropping down into the
crater of this extinct volcano!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The snow looked really nice and after a
pretty relax climb, I got pretty excited!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We hadn’t even plan to make it to the
summit and we were now getting ready to ski down in the crater!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The best part is that the snow was as nice,
dry and good as it looked!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We were all really stoked about the day so
far and there was still a nice 1500m of ski to be done!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The climb didn’t exactly promise for a
great descent, but we quickly realize that the snow would be better than
expected!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Even if the gully was fairly tracked out,
there was still room to track<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some
nicely untouched powder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We’ve had enjoy the day so much that the
view and the light got really, really cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Our eagerness to track some untracked snow
veered us a little bit away from everyones track. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We figured that if we skied just a little
bit off from everyone tracks, we could make it back to everyone’s tracks just
by traversing a little bit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We were quickly blocked by a steep gully.
We skied in it and figured we had to climb out of it. The emergency feeling to
make it back to the car slowly crept in to all four of us! We eventually had to
cross multiple gullies and rush through the forest to make it to the car just
before darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">It is quite modest to say that we were all
REALLY stoke to make it to the car<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>around
5PM as the day was getting quite dark!. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">That was certainly an EPIC day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We left without thinking aout achieving
much and ended up summiting, skiing down into the crater, having to find our
way through the forest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">After such an epic day, we had a lousy
start. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The snow on the ground around Niseko was by
far the thinnest I’ve ever seen and it was certainly not tempting to ski or to
tour around there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We went back to Kiroro to hit the
backcountry again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">With such a late start, we were good to
have 2 laps and made it back to the car earlier but still late!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We had a little sake and snack straight at
the car as we got back as the snow was hammering Kiroro again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We split up with Alexa and Jerome as we
drove back to Otaru. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We had plan to ski a backcountry spot
scouted earlier on on the road from Otaru to Kiroro. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The main drawback of this spot was the
parking spot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We saw a group of two skiers who were just
leaving their car from a really thight parking spot. Since our car wasn’t 4WD,
it was a little bit of a challenge to make it to their parking spot, but after
a good half an hour of shoveling, we eventually made it up there!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Just as we were putting our ski boots on,
two fellows showed up and let us understand that we needed to leave that
parking spot<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and that nowhere around
this pass was alright to park...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We were both pretty bummed about that
outcome, especially since it was already not that early during the day, we
returned to Kiroro’s bakcountry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">We decided not to start from the church,
but to start from the gate no.3 which is just at the top of the beginner lift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">Breaking trail led up to a really nice run
just opposite from the run we had done the previous day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">With a really snowy forecast on Honshu we
made the tough decision to leave all of this really nice, deep and dry snow
that we had just skied to head to Hakuba on the ferry that brought us to
Hokkaido a week before.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA">The ride on the ferry was certainly not the
smoothest one with gigantic wave rocking the boat most of the way and we spend
most of the run laid down on the couch...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">After not having a full time ski season last winter and having to rely on weekend-warrioring to get most of my turns in, I am glad to say that I will be spending a nice 2 months traveling and skiing!!</span></div>
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First stop : Japan!!!<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">It seems like it has been a very, very long time since my last visit in Japan in 2014! For my 5th trip in Japan, I wanted to visit some different areas. Beside during the winter I spent in 2010, I’ve never skied on Japan main island : Honshu. </span></div>
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The plan is simple : rent a camper-van in Tokyo and drive to whatever region is having the best season start and enjoy the snow! With my girlfriend Amelie onboard, that shouldn’t be to difficult since there are countless resorts on Honshu.<br />
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After being delayed by a full day due to a snowstorm in Quebec, we eventually arrived in Tokyo on December 31st, where we picked up the van.<br />
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Good thing it was New Year Eve because the drive out of Tokyo was certainly a tricky one!!<br />
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We eventually crashed in a rest area on our way to Myoko.<br />
Myoko is a mountain on which 5-6 different resorts are scattered. But beside Akakura Kanko and Akakura Onsen, you cannot link any of the resorts together.<br />
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We kicked off 2017 by having a great ramen for breakfast and continued our drive towards Myoko.<br />
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I had been following the snow reports throughout Japan for the last month or so and it was certainly not a great year! Neither on Honshu nor on Hokkaido was the snow abundant. Myoko was having the greatest snowpack on Honshu and since it is a place that usually attracts the snowstorm, we were pretty confident about finding good conditions.<br />
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On our way to Myoko, we passed near Shiga Kogen, where the snow was just plainly not there.<br />
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For our first day, we headed out for Akakura Kanko.<br />
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The conditions at the bottom of the mountain were really limited and the snow cover was quite minimal. The sun was also out and the temperature at the base was around OOC.. We also eventually realized that the snowpack reported in the snow report seems to be from the top of the highest chairlift...<br />
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After a few laps inbounds where the conditions on the piste were just decent and the conditions offpiste were quite tracked out, we slapped our skins on our skis from the top lift to go check out the backcountry available from the top.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The skin up was as warm as bushy!</span></div>
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Unfortunately, the skiing was also quite bushy.<br />
Beside a few good turns, it was a bush-hugging marathon from the top to bottom.<br />
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We were both pretty bummed after our first day about the conditions!<br />
It seems that it ‘only’ lacks about 2-3m of base to cover up for all those bushes...<br />
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We were a little bit bummed after that first day!<br />
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Next morning came with a nice dusting of snow on the car.<br />
We headed out to Seki Onsen where usually a little bit more snow falls than on any other resorts in Myoko.<br />
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There was probably around 20cm of wet snow laying on a pretty firm surface. But it seems they have figured out what to do in case that you feel too wet before taking the chairlift by installing an hair-dryer just by the chair!<br />
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We managed to have nice turns, but everything was pretty skied-out by the end of the day.<br />
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We lapped both chairs for the whole days, but it was really obvious that the snow was missing comparing to the other time I’ve visited Seki!<br />
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The following pictures were taken at about the same spot but 7 years appart...<br />
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So we were at the most snowed-in place on Honshu and it was not really great. With a not so promising forecast, we decided to hop on the ferry at Niigata and to make our way to Hokkaido, where it has snowed a little bit more and where I’ve never been quite disappointed.<br />
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Our cruise went smoothly and we landed on Hokkaido at 4:30AM.<br />
With Sapporo Teine about an hour and a half away, we were there before the day lodge open!<br />
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The conditions in the parking lot were much more wintery that what we’ve seen so far on Honshu!<br />
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The conditions at the resort were also MUCH better!!<br />
It was certainly not the deepest day ever but with 15cm of snow laying on a smooth soft surface it was really not unpleasant!<br />
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The resort has really limited interesting terrain, but there are 3 chutes that are west of the resort that have really nice terrain.<br />
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We had scattered heavy snow showers period and sunny breaks but by the end of the day, it was more solely the heavy snow showers that was on!<br />
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The resort is so close to Sapporo that we drove to the city to stroll around the downtown a bit.<br />
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We went back the following day to Teine ...and the conditions were even better!!!<br />
The day started with about 30cm of snow within the chutes. We layed the second and third tracks in the chutes, so it was pretty epic!<br />
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For an unknown reason, it was not as crowded as the day before, so the conditions stayed nice for a longer period!<br />
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We lapped the same chutes for a good part of the day and eventually tried the glades around the resort, where we figured that it was also a little bit bushy.<br />
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Since the weather cleared out, we ventured past the third chute to check out the backside of Teine, where the terrain is surprisingly not steep... We actually didn’t drop in since it really looked flat.<br />
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After looking if there wasn’t any good terrain adjacent to some ancient closed lifts on which we could make some good touring, we figured that the bushes were a little bit too grown back up to ski. We made it back to the car pretty toasted!<br />
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We left Nelson to head a bit south towards Rossland. This village is for me a mini version of Nelson, so I have always liked to spend a bit of time there.<br />
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With a bit of fresh snow on the forecast we figured it would be a nice move.<br />
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We used the information from <a href="http://backcountryskiingcanada.com/index.php?p=page&page_id=Rossland%20Range" target="_blank">Backcountry Skiing Canada</a> and headed towards Mt Kirkup.<br />
The visibility was poor so we stayed low and skied through some openings in the forest.<br />
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I haven’t heard much about the backcountry possibilities around Red Mtn Resort, but I was pleased with what we found. The runs were not long though, but lapping it was nice and fun!<br />
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As we were driving to the Nancy Green pass to tour on a mellow terrain, we spotted a car parked next to a clear cut and a skintrack leaving from it.<br />
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We followed it and eventually ended up on Mt Pewman.<br />
We had again a nice day skiing, but battery failure shortens the documentation of the day!<br />
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Having to leave soon, we made our way back towards Revelstoke.<br />
Since we have bought lift tickets in pre-sale in November, we didn’t wanted to leave without having using them!<br />
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The Germans not that interested in paying to ski a non-powder-chocked-resort, we splitted. They left us at the public pool and after chilling there for a little while, we walked to a friend’s place a few blocks away where we crashed after making a gigantic nachos!<br />
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After lapping inbounds on the groomers for a few runs, we headed to the North Bowl were the conditions were much better!<br />
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It hasn’t snow much, but the wind had piled the snow in some nice and deep pockets!<br />
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We returned back to the resort, but headed to the slackcountry looking for some more freshies. The south boundary of the resort gives a great access to some nice slackcountry option. After skinning for about 20 minutes and gaining around 50m of elevation, you enter a nice open bowl. At the bottom of the bowl, there is a cat-track that you can follow all the way back to the resort.<br />
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Then we rushed down, hitch-hike back in town, grab a lift to the bus station with my friend’s roommate and catch the Greyhound back to Calgary.<br />
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That was the end of a great trip punctuated with less snow that I’m used in British Columbia, but it was also nice to be able to really see the areas that I’ve visited so often without being able to have a look at them!<br />
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Now back in Quebec where I’ll be skiing a bit less this winter due to the past year where I was busy not working!<br />
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Having moved from Montreal to the Saguenay area, I’m quite optimistic about some great weekend warrior skiing!<br />
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evans</div>
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Since we felt Rogers started to be a bit track due to the lack of new snow, we hit the road south.<br />
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First stop was London Ridge near Retallack.<br />
Piet has been there before and thought it was a good option.<br />
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It is pretty tricky but you can find some quite useful information about it <a href="http://backcountryskiingcanada.com/index.php?p=page&page_id=Goat%20Range%20Selkirk%20Mountains#London" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
The skin up was in a logging road with not much snow. We actually got to an opening after a climb of about 600m.<br />
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The weather was quite spectacular with an inversion to top it off!<br />
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There were actually quite a lot of tracks already, but we made it to the west summit where it was totally untrack.<br />
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After snapping a few quite spectacular pictures due to the sun falling rapidly, we started skiing down.<br />
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The snow was really spectacular being cold, steady and blower!<br />
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The ski started to be a bit shitty around 300m from the bottom since there wasn’t too much snow to have a proper base.<br />
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We made some combat skiing keeping left of the main gully until we got to the lake at the bottom.<br />
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With a long approach and not that many options to ski out, I wouldn’t return there too soon.<br />
We drove south to the Whitewater parking lot where we slept.<br />
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The backcountry around the resort was so tracked it looked like a resort!<br />
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We skinned a bit deeper towards Mt Beattie figuring it would be a good option since it was north facing.<br />
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The snow was effectively nice and surprisingly untrack!<br />
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We stayed overnight in the parking lot.<br />
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I was at the exact same spot about 10years from now with not as much of a pimp setup!<br />
Souvenirs from my first winter ski-tripping!<br />
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The skiing was so good that we returned for another round!<br />
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After another great day of skiing, we headed to another classic : Kootenay Pass!<br />
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I’ve never been to this pass in good weather. With the avy forecast being on the Low side again, we headed towards what is call ‘The Muffin’. This mountain is located on the south side of the highway and looked quite promising!<br />
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We toured under a bright blue sky and ski (again) some great pow!!<br />
I've always thought of Kootenay pass as a non-steep option, but we found some nice lines!<br />
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With the high pressure sticking around a bit more, we ventured on the north side of the road to have a good view of what really is on this side!<br />
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The weather from the day before has really affected everything that was a bit south or west facing and created a quite solid suncrust.<br />
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Nevertheless, we found some great snow and had and awesome day touring around!<br />
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We looked at the map to try to find backcountry spots we all have never been. We eventually settled to head towards Rossland and ski the backcountry around there.<br />
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We quitted the pass and spend the day in Nelson which is one of my favourite city in Canada to resupply, rest and shower!<br />
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We woke up in Christmas morning under a shinning blue sky! We headed towards a variant of the Lone Pine slidepath in the Hermitt area. Sarah taking a break and Freddy gone skiing with one of his friend, I teamed up solely with Piet.<br />
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I have never spend too much time in Hermitt due to the fact that the forest is not that skiable. You then need to ski in the different slidepaths which is not my favorite place to hang out when the avy danger is a not too, too stable.<br />
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Being bless with a LOW avalanche danger all the way to the alpine, we figured it would be a great option!<br />
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Unfortunately for us, just as we got to the top, the clouds moved in...<br />
Since we weren’t too familiar with the area, we waited for some openings in the clouds to find the entrance to the slidepath.<br />
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We eventually got one and we were really glad to have found it!<br />
The run was 1300m vertical of pure untrack awesomeness!!<br />
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I got so excited skiing it, I was woop-wooping all the way down like my good friend JS showed me! The snow was probably only 20-25cm deep, but steady and bottomless!<br />
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This was one of my certainly best run in Rogers Pass ever!<br />
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We then made it up towards Cheops.<br />
Our initial plan was to ski the STS couloir which is a nice aesthetical line that needs good stability. Since it was already tracked, we opted for a bit less spectacular line and ski Nikki’s Notch which is somehow parallel to the STS couloir.<br />
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The top part was not so nice since it was windcrusted, but we the lower was really good.<br />
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Once at the bottom, we put our skin to climb back up to Balu pass.<br />
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From there, we climb back up on Cheops and this time, we dropped down the Cougar Valley. From my past experience, the snow is usually really nice and on top, you have an free extra 300m since you end up at the highway and hitch hike to make it back.<br />
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Hitch hiking is usually not a problem since there is a lot of people travelling by themselves in big pick-up trucks!<br />
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The top part was really nice, but the lower part was lacking a bit of coverage turning it to some nice adventure skiing!<br />
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I haven’t been to Avalanche Crest in a while, so it was kind of cool to hike up there. The area is fairly wide, so there is usually quite a lot of room to lay tracks even if it hasn’t snow in a little while.<br />
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The view from the top is really cool as you ski straight down to the highway.<br />
As planned, there was still a lot of room to make fresh tracks!<br />
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We enjoy the continuing Low to Moderate avalanche forecast to try some new lines.<br />
From the Rogers Pass Discovery center, we climbed up towards the Hourglass, but kept going until we got to Cheops 1. We first skin it, and then bootpack our way up.<br />
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From the shoulder, we skied into Cheops 2 which is a quite impressive open bowl.<br />
Conditions were good, we were able to feel a wind slab that kept us from being to funky!<br />
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At the bottom of Cheops 2, there is a plateau from which we start skinning up towards Napoleon Spur.<br />
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Even if Napoleon is a classic of Rogers, I’ve never been there myself and I really wonder why since it is a nice steep pillowy terrain!<br />
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Late at night, after a 8 hours journey from Calgary due to some road closure, my girlfriend, Amelie, joined us after being dropped at the top of the pass from the bus. It took her a bit of arguing with the driver to convince him she would be better and more comfortable if she would be getting drop at the pass than in Revelstoke!<br />
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Our Christmas run was so good that we figured it would be a good idea to do the direct version of Lone Pine starting straight from the top.<br />
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From a distance, we were able to see there wasn’t any tracks and the weather forecast was calling for some great weather.<br />
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Amelie wanted a small day to start off and I guess it wasn’t exactly what she had in mind...<br />
It took a bit of encouragement, but she made it up the 1400m after cursing a bit at her blisters!<br />
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The view from the top was really spectacular!<br />
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We were all really glad to have waited until some good stable conditions since the entrance was fairly sketchy.<br />
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The snow was not super deep and we all hitted some rocks somehow on the way down.<br />
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After this quite good day of skiing, we felt it was time for us to move a bit. After all, we haven't rented an RV only to park it and not move it!<br />
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With more and more people showing up, we wanted something a bit less busy.<br />
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Piet and Sarah proposed to make it towards Retallack where we could probably skied a good backcountry spot they have been before.<br />
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So we packed everyone in the RV and hit the road!<br />
Living the RV liftestyle!<br />
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Evans Parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689617394538640858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490736802660949812.post-10843419730256802132015-12-24T21:09:00.000+01:002016-01-22T21:28:26.675+01:00Good Old Rogers still delivers the goodies!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Apparently, much of the good things must come to an end one day or another. After a GREAT year living in Grenoble, I moved back from France to Saguenay, Quebec (that’s in Canada ;) in May. After a year playing the housewife, it was about time for me to get back to the work market!<br />
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It was kind a hard to find a job and after spending most of the summer whitewater kayaking to keep the boredom away, I eventually found a job in late September! It was just about time, since I was starting to juggle about the idea of stopping my work research and postpone my return to the work market in April.<br />
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Since the office were closing during the Holidays, I already manage to line up a first ski trip by adding an extra week of non-paid holidays to get a nice three weeks off.<br />
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The plan was fairly simple: go to BC and revisit good ol’ stomping ground and hope to be able to toss in a few new runs! With signs of winter and great snow dump in November and early December, it looked like the most promising skiing destination anywhere in the world for Christmas.<br />
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Winter really took its time to show up in Quebec. We are usually not dumped on, but at least the ski hills are usually doing a great job on doing fake snow. Such fake snow is a bit harder to make if the temperature hoover around +10Celcius...<br />
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I usually like to skin up a few times to warm up the muscle from their summer break, but this hiking boots were more useful than climbing skin to get around the brownish hills!<br />
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I was pretty proud to mount my very first pair of skis myself (I’m not much of an handy guy, so mounting the skis was pretty stressful!) even more that those Xalibu skis were design and made in Quebec.<br />
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The plan for this ski trip was simple: Fly to Calgary, rent a car and find snow...<br />
That was until 7 days from departure, when Piet, Sarah and Freddy, (the Germans with whom I spent last Christmas in Norway with) sent me a message.<br />
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Snow was not coming to the Alps, so we are flying over to Calgary 3 days after you. We will be renting a RV and you are welcome to join.<br />
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Deal!<br />
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I eventually got to Calgary where signs of winter were much more obvious than home.<br />
After using shuttle and Greyhound bus, I eventually made it to Tree, a friend now living in Revelstoke, after a bit more than 18 hours of travelling!<br />
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It hasn’t snowed much, but the resort looked like a good option to get the legs warm up. I have never skied the resort, so I was pretty stoke to check it out! Tree was also all in to ride the resort. After a few laps where the runs were smooth but not so deep, we slapped our skins on and went for a little tour just next to the resort.<br />
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The cat-skiing terrain is just adjacent from the resort, but you can get to it after a 15 minutes/50m vertical-gain skin. The terrain is pretty extensive and you can get back to a cat-track that get you back to the lift after another 15 minutes /20m vertical-gain hike<br />
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This is probably the best ratio Quality vs Effort slackcountry skiing I’ve ever seen!<br />
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The snow was nice and smooth and I was pretty happy!<br />
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It did snow a bit overnight, so we headed back up to the resort to witness the improvement!<br />
And improve it was!!<br />
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With strong with coming from the south, the snow piled up in the backbowls turning a gentle 15cm overnight into the best day of the season so far!<br />
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After lapping furiously until closing time, I rushed back to Tree’s place to pick up my stuff and head to the bus-stop to go back to Golden to wait for my German friends to show up with the RV!<br />
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The eventually picked me up around midnight at the bar were I had a few beers with a friend who lives in Golden.<br />
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We made it up to Rogers Pass first thing the following morning. I felt I haven’t been there in ages, but my last visit was in 2013. I guess since it is one of my favorite place in the world this is why it has missed me that much!<br />
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We headed up to Teddy Bear Trees for our first day out.<br />
Weather was nice and snow looked nice and cold on the skin up.<br />
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Our expectations were fulfilled on the way down.<br />
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Freddy here tasting for his first time the Canadian goodies!<br />
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We scope untrack lines starting near the top of Grizzly Shoulder and dropping into Grizzly Bowl that was untrack. We made the plan to ski it, skin back up and head towards Grizzly West which is usually really nice to ski.<br />
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Since it was Piet’s idea, he got to ski the best open line which consisted of around 250m vertical of 40degrees untrack 25cm of snow... Beside his line, we all had good run since it is a very wide wall to lay down turns on.<br />
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Visibility was getting a bit bad as we got back up, we found the entrance into the Grizzly West slidepath without too much problem.<br />
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Grizzly West has a steep entrance that is kind of pillowy before opening up. Being a bit less popular than Puff Daddy because of the 100m extra vertical you need to climb to get in, there is usually a bit less tracks.<br />
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Life in the RV is so far not too bad! (and not too stinky yet!!)<br />
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Tagging up with my girlfriend, we left Grenoble chasing the <strike>snow</strike> sun in Villars, Switzerland. Located in the Vaud canton, about 65km from Lausanne lay the Villars-Gryon-Les Diablerets-Glacier 3000 resort.<br />
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With a high pressure system in place for a few days and some bright sun on the forecast, we took off thinking more about the sunscreen than the down jackets. Even if I do prefer the cold powdery snow, I actually really don’t mind skiing slushy snow in the resorts when the spring shows up!<br />
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We started our discovery of the domain in Villars and headed out towards Glacier 3000.<br />
I don’t think the trail map accurately represents the ground that really separates those 2 places! I also don't think that was my greatest idea ever! Linking those two fairly distant resort together in a day forces you to sit and use a lot of lifts. One would be better serve into making its idea in the resort he really would like to ski than to try to check them all out in a single day!<br />
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Good thing that there wasn’t much people there since crossing from one resort all the way at the top of the other resort can take quite some time! There is also quite a big difference in the resort style when you compare the terrain available on the Villars and Diablerets side to the Glacier 3000.<br />
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For Villars and Les Diablerets, it is more traditionnal slopes cut through trees or open field as there is some really good alpine freeriding opportunities to be found on the Glacier 3000 side.<br />
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Certainly that the most spectacular view is at Glacier 3000, we even had the chance to score some nice cold-snow turns there!<br />
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After riding there and back we went to Gryon to check out the afterski of the first day of the Telefest organized by the <a href="http://worstcrew.wix.com/worstcrew" target="_blank">Worst Crew</a>. There was a pretty cool ambiance there and a lot of people showed up for the live one-man band!<br />
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We met a lot of the same people the following day at the tent festival where free-demo gathered around 150 persons trying different ski boots and binding.<br />
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Part of the festival was also the Televasion. It was a discovery tour of both the resort and the slackcountry. We took off with on the tour and even if the skiing was good, the best part was the lunch.<br />
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In a traditionnal alpine chalet that was originally used for the summer pasture, we were serve wine, cheese and soup. We both had way to much food and with the warm sun shinning strong, it was kinda hard to leave! After almost 3 months of almost non-stop skiing, I start to almost enjoy as much to relax and drink wine than to ski!<br />
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We left Villars to go back to Grenoble after 2 days that were way too short!<br />
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With the high pressure still in place, I rallied with Nicolas Attal my friend who lives in Valloire to check out the nearby Valfréjus. Located near the border of Italy, Valfréjus was one of the first resort in France to open for the season and got spanked with snow from the storm coming in the pasta-land side all season long.<br />
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Valfréjus is not really what one could call a ‘’resort’’. There is certainly some other activity than skiing, but don’t expect Rolex shopping here! With only 3 majors lifts, it is nothing but a major ski-hub. But for what it lacked in impressive number, Valfréjus got something that cannot be put down in number: nice terrain, real alpine feeling and awesome view.<br />
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For 28 euros, you get to a 600m vertical of nice alpine terrain. I don’t think there is that much to do when you don’t have any visibility since all of the interesting turns are made above treeline.<br />
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I was also fairly impress about the speedriding skills that some fellow were showing up. Speedriding is like paragliding but with a wing a bit to small to fly. People were flying down and putting loops in the air.... Something just got put on my bucket list!<br />
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An other great discovery in the Maurienne valley!<br />
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I certainly like resort skiing but with the Chamonix-Zermatt traverse already plan at the end of our season, a bit of touring wouldn’t hurt to get my legs in shape!<br />
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With Amelie, we left towards the Rocher Rond in the Matheysine massif just southeast of Grenoble. It is really hard to separate what I call a great outing from what people in Europe call a great outing.<br />
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I like to ski down steady 30-45degrees gradient slope with my skins on, they don’t mind bushwacking or hiking with their skis on their pack for hours without any chance of skiing.<br />
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I like to climb straight up and ski down, they don’t mind long, long, looonnnnnng approach just to get to a summit with a view.<br />
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I climb to ski, for some skiing is a mandatory pain required after the quick skin up.<br />
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But for once, I was able to find a great tour that looked like providing a steady gradient up and a good spring-skiing destination.<br />
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After hiking for 5 minutes, we started to climb on some hard refrozen snow. We were quickly joined by a local stinky farmer’s dog that would eventually climb all the way to the top with us.<br />
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Our progression was slow with the packs loaded to test how it will be on the coming Cham-Zermatt traverse. As we gained elevation, we could more easily see the smog coming from the valleys around and especially from Grenoble.<br />
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I really like this city, but I can’t convince myself that it is good for you to live there on the long run with so much pollution.<br />
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We timed our climb and ski down perfectly since the snow was nice and soft all the way down! It is one of the best tour I’ve done around Grenoble and I was really surprise not to see any other tracks on the mountain...<br />
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Looks like spring is here now...<br />
Hope winter will make a comeback!<br />
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We drove across northern Italy and finally made it to the mythical Cortina d’Ampezzo located in the hearth of the Dolomites. It is also part of the <a href="http://www.dolomitisuperski.com/en" target="_blank">Dolomiti Superski</a> which consists of a massif network of 450 lifts (yes, 450 lifts!!!) linking 12 differents ski areas!<br />
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It is also probably the best place to get the latest fur coat, so hurry up, you’ll have competition!<br />
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From the Cortina downtown, you have access to two different sides that you can’t easily connect during the same ski day.<br />
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For our first day, we headed up on the Faloria side.<br />
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We were told to stay on the slope because off-piste skiing is strictly forbidden. Proper backcountry skiing is allowed but skiing next from the slopes is not permitted. Unfortunately for us, the Forcella lift that gives access to most of the good backcountry options starts on the Cristallo side which was not running. You needed a proper certified mountain guide to have access to the goodies.<br />
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We cruised the groomed runs on the resort and enjoyed the view of the surrounding peaks. I would have thought that Cortina would have been packed but there wasn’t mostly any lift line anywhere!<br />
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Next day, we headed on the other side towards Tofana.<br />
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It’s on this side that you would find most of the famous runs of Cortina and where the women World cup is held every year. Even if this is not an awesome snow year for the Dolomites, you can still get some really good condition inbound.<br />
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From the top of the lifts, after a short 10 minutes hike, you have access to the Bus de Tofana.<br />
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From the col, you can ski down a wide couloir and catch the lift back for another run. After seeing the amount of tracks, I would guess that it is probably the most commonly skied run! I was (again) really surprised to see that it was still not that hard to find some untracked snow on which to carve turns!<br />
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We skied the chopped up snow and the 15-20cm of fresh snow that was still left to ski.<br />
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For our next run, we decided to go towards the Canale della Colonna which would translate to the Couloir of the Column. You just need to take your skis off at one of the slope and hike up around 100m. Conditions on the way up were good and not too sketchy.<br />
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The snow in the couloir was fairly packed. Nothing deep here but not hard to ski.<br />
We missed the phrase in the guidebook saying: ‘’Do not be tempted by a direct descent. A rappel is required.’’ We realized soon enough when we saw what the couloir looked like!<br />
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Since we weren’t too far from the piste, we bootpacked our way up. I used to think that with skins you could make it out of most of situations but in the Alps, I now start to think that rope, harness and climbing equipment are mandatory equipment!<br />
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Even if The Cinque Tori area is located a few kilometers out of Cortina, it is part of it. It don’t have that many lifts but it really looked like slackcountry was much more tolerated than in the heart of Cortina.<br />
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After skiing around for half a day, I stopped by the <a href="http://www.rifugiolagazuoi.com/" target="_blank">Rifugio Lagazuoi</a> where we were planned to sleep that night to have a chat with Guido Pompanin, the owner and caretaker of the hut. Located at the top of Mt Lagazuoi at 2752m just a 2min walk from the tram, one couldn’t dream about a better place to stay overnight! Guido was really nice to talk to and being the sun of the guy who built the rifugio, he was really knowledgeable of the area and awesomely generous of his time.<br />
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He explained me a few options that we could easily do this afternoon and that wouldn’t be too sketchy. We skiined for about 15minutes and got at the top of the 700m long Canale della Nonna. The snow was just perfect for couloir skiing. Not too deep, firm but easy to ski!<br />
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With the temperature warming up, we decided to stay on the piste for a few laps before making our way back to the <a href="http://www.rifugiolagazuoi.com/" target="_blank">Rifugio</a> for a celebration beer!<br />
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After the celebration beer, we went sweating a bit in the sauna. From inside the sauna, we had a terrific view of the surrounding mountains which was quite a change from the naked dudes view you usually have inside the sauna!<br />
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I was pleased with the view from our room but it was nothing compare to the sunrise the following morning!<br />
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I really think that every one should have the chance to see the sun rising above the clouds with peaks sticking out of the sea of clouds!<br />
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If you ever make it to the Cortina area, make sure to put the <a href="http://www.rifugiolagazuoi.com/" target="_blank">Rifugio Lagazuoi</a> on your sleep-over list!<br />
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The clouds eventually rose and the weather turned bad. We drove towards Alta Badia which I’ve know for its also World Cup event. It was also snowing heavily, once we got there, but it quickly stopped.<br />
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Alta Badia is also part of the Sella Ronda tour. This tour consists of linking different resort around the Sella massif on skis. Most of the people do it during one day and it is something that apparently everyone that goes to the Dolomites does. We found the slope on which the World Cup is held every year. It is a really steep slope on which I would really not like to have to race! But beside this slope, it is fairly flat. It is probably one of the flatest resort I’ve ever skied. There is really countless intermediate and beginner run... There were also much more people around the resort. I can easily imagine it being PACKED during the holidays.<br />
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Since you can easily see which lifts are part of the Sella Ronda, we headed out a bit out of there to hopefully have it on the quiet side. We drove by Passo Pordoi where our diesel froze a few year back and went to Marmolada.<br />
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Marmolada is the highest point you can get by lift in the Dolomites. That we realized translate into alotofpeoplewanttogothere!<br />
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The view, as one can imagine is pretty stunning, but the best point in my opinion are the slackcountry options available. Since there is one run that is control on the glacier, everyone use it leaving pretty of room for some nice turns.<br />
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With a soon to come return to Grenoble, we drove south to San Martino di Castrozza. This is the most southern point of the Dolomiti Superski and what we figured would be a bit closer to drive back to Grenoble.<br />
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We stayed on the slopes and got a short day in before having to drive back home.<br />
The last days haven’t been super deep, but I am really stoked about what I saw and all the options that are available here. It is for sure a destination that I look forward to come back!<br />
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One thing that I am really looking forward to do is to come back only with a daypack and travel around the mountains by using the lifts and the bus system. Probably not on the Sella Ronda but a trip that would involve backcountry and slackcountry options around the mountains. The fact that you can buy card points and that depending on the lift that you are using get charge only on what you use, make this option really interesting...<br />
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Now, sitting at home in Grenoble dreaming about it...<br />
Sun and warm weather are on the forecast for the coming days...<br />
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With some snow coming from the North and which was forecasted to leave more snow in Switzerland, we left the Monte Rosa area and start to drive towards our next destination.<br />
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We had a short stop in Aosta before heading up towards the Grand St-Bernard tunnel.<br />
With some last minute shopping before heading up to the more expensive Switzerland to pack up on cheese, salami and wine, we were kinda late.<br />
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We then decided to stop at what was once the Super St-Bernard parking lot. Even when the resort was open, it was a fairly popular starting point to hike towards the St-Bernard’s hospice. We hiked it a <a href="http://snowchasers.blogspot.fr/2012/03/really-nice-introduction-to-swiss.html" target="_blank">few years back</a> and with a fairly long approach both in distance and in not-skiable vertical, we decided to head East towards the now closed ski resort.<br />
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It has been fairly windy around the pass and the snow was fairly packed.<br />
We had a nice lap under a bright shinning sun and by looking carefully, we were able to find some decent soft snow skiing down.<br />
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Amelie drove from France and joined us in Martigny.<br />
With the snow supposely hitting the area during the day, we headed towards the family resort called Les Marécottes just 15 minutes of Martigny.<br />
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The snow took quite some time to arrive.<br />
If fact, it never really showed up. The resort is really small and after skiing most of it and not finding great snow conditions, we eventually chilled out and had a look at the big air contest and some speed-riding demonstration.<br />
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The following morning, traces of snow were all the way down to Martigny. We headed back to Les Marécottes. We played hide-and-seek all day with the sun and the clouds but for most of the day, we were able to get some great turns.<br />
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When you don’t really have nice visibility, you really loose a lot of skiers in the Alps!<br />
I really enjoy those days when you don’t really need to compete too much for fresh turns!<br />
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Amelie left to go back to work and I drove towards the Val D’Anniviers valley with my Dad.<br />
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Located between in the Valais with some more neighbours like Zermatt and Verbier, it is once that is easily overlook despite some great terrain and usually good snowfall. At the entrance of the valley, you would find Vercorin, which is really a family resort with piste carved in the forest and a lot of man-made snow. I think the greatest potential lay in the two others resorts St-Luc/Chandolin and especially Grimentz/Zinal.<br />
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With some more snow on its way, we headed towards the backside of Grimentz to the Vallon de Réchy.<br />
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We were guided by Raphy Largey (raphy (dot) largey (at) hotmail (dot) com). By using the Grimentz lift all the way to the top, we dropped on a mellow slope on which we didn’t had much visibility at the top.<br />
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After skiing, the top part, we hiked on the flat part before putting our skin on and climbing a little bit before skiing down and lapping around the end of the mountain to link up to the Vercorin ski lifts. We used them to climb back up before traversing back towards Grimentz.<br />
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We eventually skied down the trees and to the open grass slopes lower down.<br />
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With the use of the free ski shuttle bus that you can use to reach all the ski resorts in the valley, we eventually got back to our starting point in Grimentz.<br />
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It was a really cool tour on which I was really surprise after looking at the map to see how much ground we did cover during a single day! If you ever are in the area and look to check out beyond the lifts, I highly recommend you to contact Raphy. He is really knowledgeable of the area and most importantly: really cool guy to ski with!<br />
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The snowpack in Switzerland is still quite dangerous. Actually after our day at the Col du Grand St-Bernard, 3 people died there. So using a guide can provide you a safe access to the backcountry on such year as this year!<br />
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The following day we woke up with about 10cm of snow on the car. We drove to St-Luc/Chandolin to check it out.<br />
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At first, we really had a hard time skiing since we couldn’t see anything. Visibility was so bad that we stopped for a Croûte au fromage. This is simply a slice of bread soak with white wine and cover by about a kilo of cheeze!!<br />
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While filling up on fat, weather cleared up and we were able to get some nice turns in.<br />
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With the sky clearing up, it was really promising for the following day!<br />
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We weren’t disappointed about the weather!<br />
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Zinal used to be a family resort but with the opening of a controlled freeride zone and the addition of a beacon practice field, it could certainly not be a good freeride destination.<br />
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With the bad visibility of the previous day, there wasn’t much track on the mountain when we got there!<br />
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This was a day with way more competition for the freshies!<br />
Weirdly, even on perfect day when you can see everything, there are always some lines that don’t get skied by themselves but required your help!<br />
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We volunteered and got rewarded with faceshots and deep turns!!<br />
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I don’t know how long Zinal is going to stay under the radar as a paradise for freeriding, but you should certainly get your share while it is sill not too much out there!<br />
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I really enjoyed my time in the Valais, but now its time to head back to Italy and drive towards the Dolomites for some more adventures!!<br />
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evans<br />
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After a great day harvesting some nice corn, we had a down day spent at home fixing ski gear (and doing laundry)!<br />
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Following this much-needed day, my ski socks were back, ready to serve for a few days. With Babiche going back to Canada, I left Grenoble with Amelie and my Dad heading back towards the Maurienne valley where some snow was forecasted.<br />
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After a fairly early start, we eventually got to the Maurienne valley just as the day was starting to be a bit clearer. We then realize that it didn’t really snowed overnight and that there wasn’t much snow that would fell during the day.<br />
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We kept driving and headed out to the other side of the mountain to Italy to see if more snow was waiting for us. After checking an option that looked good from the Internet, we realized that it really wasn’t any great for real!<br />
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We then decided to head to the Bardonnechia station instead of waisting the day running around and trying to find a good backcountry option.<br />
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We weren’t to excited at first rolling at the station. With plenty of people in line to buy the lift ticket and more waiting for the main lift, it didn’t looked great! After a few run, we realized that most of the people were interested in the piste and not about the freshies that were lying everywhere!<br />
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From the highest lift, after about 10 sidesteps, we were able to traverse to a nice treed up area that was not seeing to many skiers!<br />
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After a few runs, the weather got bad and it started to snow.<br />
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We then had the whole area to ourselves!!<br />
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With plenty of snow forecasted at the nearby resort of Sestrières, we drove to the station that hosted many events at the Torino olympics.<br />
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After some camping-made pasta, we went to bed not dreaming about what was about to happen.<br />
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What stayed there was just a fraction of what fell overnight!<br />
From the hotel, we skied down to the resort.<br />
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Again, there was plenty of people when we arrived. But they were mostly here to learn how to ski and not how to shred powder!!<br />
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We were again almost by ourselves shredding Japan-like powder straight under the empty lift! Skiers eventually joined our powder-shredding-festival, but by moving to the tree runs, there was still plenty of snow to be ripped!<br />
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My Dad eventually skied over a stomp and fell head first onto a branch making him look kinda bad (not like he needed any help on this side...;)<br />
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After an other run where we all hit some branches or stomps, we called it off after a day as deep as you would get in Japan.<br />
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After a great day of skiing, we drove back to France and dropped Amelie at the train station in Modane since she needed to go back to work.<br />
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Still stoked about that day, we drove back to Sestrières to try the little resort call Pragelato.<br />
This little mountain is not a resort as you would expect. In fact, it is a ungroomed, uncontrolled area. They call it a Natural Terrain.<br />
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Again, lifts were running empty.<br />
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At this point, we were really wondering what people were doing in the morning when there was that much snow that needed some love!!<br />
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We were able to get a few good runs, but honestly, the terrain was a bit too flat for the amount of snow that was on the ground. When the sun showed up, it turn what looked what a dream comes true (50cm of snow, bluebird, no one!) into a not really skiable terrain with some really heavy snow to ski through.<br />
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A bit bummed about not having being able to truly ski the snow properly because of the lack of steepness, we drove north towards the Monte Rosa area home of the famous Freeride paradise, Alagna.<br />
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The Monte Rosa area consist of 3 mains villages located in parallel valleys linked by lifts. That actually make Champoluc more than 4 hours drive to Alagna but only 45 minutes by using the lifts. Coming from the Aosta valley, we decided to head to the middle of the skiable domain and drove up Gressoney.<br />
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With its reputation preceding it as a big mountain hotspot, we left the car in the morning agreeing that we should keep it quiet and not to get too excited on our first day.<br />
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We used the lift to make it to the top of the mountain and get on the first traverse we see. Sure enough, on the very first skintrack that we crossed, we put our skins on and followed it ‘just to see’! That skintrack was leading at the entrance of the run call Valle Perduta. After scoping the kind of steep entrance, we figured that it would be good to go and not too complicated to ski.<br />
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My Dad was a bit impress about the steep entrance but after seeing a not-that-talented-tourist following a guide and not dying on the way down, he was all in!<br />
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That was really nice since we were probably about the 7 or 8 persons skiing down this huge north facing valley in which some really nice snow was laying!<br />
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We followed some tracks and eventually got back to the lifts.<br />
We had done one run and it was about 12h30!<br />
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We ran all the lift back to the top and headed on the east traverse this time.<br />
We pushed on the traverse and looked at the various options.<br />
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After turning back after getting to the top of a run that was a bit too warmed up by the sun, we followed a fairly packed traverse.<br />
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As we got to the col, we realized that it was kind of very, very steep! I was really surprise to find out that a traverse used so much was in fact leading to a belay point! I guess this is Alagna!!!<br />
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In fact, a local skier named Andrea was belaying on of friend down as we got there.<br />
The run is named Malfatta and is run as a regular run by locals. After talking for a few minutes with him and his other friend Marco, he offered to belayed both of us down.<br />
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We agreed without much hesitation since it was getting kinda late in the day and the run below looked really nice.<br />
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It turned out to be quite a great run. With the valley really opening wide after the entrance, there was plenty of room to ski.<br />
With 40cm of snow on the ground that came down without wind it was really easy to ski!<br />
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That was before we got to the ski-out that pretty much skiing down a steep hiking trail with not much snow on it!<br />
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That was really a day of skiing like I love them!<br />
Only 2 runs, but 2 GREAT adventures on skis!<br />
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We headed back to the resort with not much plan but to explore a bit more.<br />
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As we got off the top tram, we bumped into Marco!<br />
His plan was the same as we did the day before: Valle Perdutta and Malfatta.<br />
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We hesitated for a few seconds but decided to join them for the day.<br />
There were a bit more tracks now, but still plenty of room for freshies!<br />
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Same was applying to the Malfatta!<br />
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It was another great run with great weather and great company!<br />
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With another big storm coming in 2 days that was suppose to hit in Switzerland harder than Alagna, we decided to leave the area and start driving towards Switzerland.<br />
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I really loved the vibe and really enjoyed the company of the people that I met coming from Alagna! And since I didn’t get the chance to ski them, apparently, there is many more great skiing options on the Alagna side.<br />
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Next time I’ll go there (because it is sure that there will be a another time!!!), for sure I will not drive on the Gressoney valley but on the Alagna side. </div>
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But before next time, let’s get some Swiss pow!!!<br />
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Evans Parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689617394538640858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490736802660949812.post-87853208006440583552015-02-23T22:14:00.003+01:002015-02-23T22:34:53.328+01:00Let me introduce you to the Maurienne Valley!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The last wind episode that cut our last day short in the Vercors left some major scars on the snow around the mountain near the Rhône valley and around Grenoble. With Babiche back on track, we figured it would be better to try some other nearby valley that run perpendicular from the Rhône valley.<br />
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We left and did a first stop in the Lauzière massif. This submountain range lays at the confluence of the famous Tarentaise valley (in which you’ll find some of most renowned ski resort like La Plagne, Les Arcs, Tignes, Val d’Isère, etc...) and the much more unknown Maurienne valley.<br />
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We left Grenoble anything but early and following the obvious signs towards Celliers, we eventually park where the road stop to be plowed during the winter.<br />
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We had look at different options on the website <a href="http://www.skitour.fr/" target="_blank">Skitour </a>, but we hadn’t really made up our mind. The parking lot was high and it seemed that there was multiple options from there. After hiking for a few minutes, we realized that a nice north facing face was still mostly untrack. That was our plan for the day. After 2 nice laps, we hoped in the car and start driving towards the end of the Maurienne valley also know as the Haute-Maurienne.<br />
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From the very end of the valley, you’ll find the nice and quiet mountain village of Bonneval-sur-Arc. Nothing close from the touristical mayhem of Val d’Isère even if only a few kilometers (by a close winter road) separate the two places from each other.<br />
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This little village kept the lay back pace that once would look up to for some relaxing holidays. With only 10 lifts and about the same amount of marked runs, Bonneval-sur-Arc is mostly known as a familiy destination. What is really nice about the family destination in Europe is that they are pretty often bigger than your local mountain. After a few warm up runs where we score really nice powder, just next from one of the very first chairlift, we went up to the highest lift.<br />
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As we were going up, we found a nice (almost) untouched area that look like it was reserved for our personal use!<br />
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We headed there not really knowing if the snow would be as good as it looked.<br />
And luckily for us, the snow was not good, it was plainly GREAT!!!<br />
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After lapping the run 2-3 times, we realized that no one else was skiing it and the only tracks that weren’t there on our first run were our own!!!<br />
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It was kind of a weird feeling.<br />
We didn’t need to hike at all to reach it.<br />
We didn’t need to rush at all since no one else was using it.<br />
We could just ski back to the lift after the run, without poling or hiking.<br />
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Nevertheless, snow was dreamy!!!<br />
It happens once in a while that we have those days where I take so many nice skiing picture, that it is hard to decide which one to put up on the blog! Not wanting to work to hard, here is some raw skiporn!<br />
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Following that awesome day of skiing, we drove down to Lanslebourg which is the biggest town of the Haute-Maurienne. The lift of the Val Cenis resort starts straight from town.<br />
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There was much more people there than in Bonneval-sur-Arc even if the resorts are separated only by a few kilometers and are linked by a free shuttle. With the last snowfall dating about a week ago and with more people skiing it, we were both pretty surprise to still find some great untrack snow!<br />
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Here is Babiche rushing to get some freshies before I got skied by some locals.<br />
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After another great day of skiing, we headed out to check out the local cheese production. Since I got to France, I discovered the Beaufort cheese. This cheese is similar to Gruyère, but just better. I have never tried it before settling down in France and since then, it ranked on the top of my favourite cheese list.<br />
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Since that delicacy is coming from the area and is produce locally, it was then a no-brainer to have a look at the local production of it. There were 6000 cheeses in the warehouse, costing about 500euros a piece. Yes, this is 3 millions euros worth of cheese!!!<br />
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This is actually something that I really love about ski-tripping in Europe. You can get some world-class delicacy and learn about mountain lifestyle without having to cut out on the quality of the skiing you did during the day.<br />
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We kept driving down the Maurienne valley back towards Grenoble and stopped this time in Valloire. We hooked up with Nicolas Attal, a frenchie that I’ve met a year back in Montreal as he was looking for a good skiing plan.<br />
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Valloire is also considered as a family destination even if there are more than 150km of groomed runs to ski on. After a few laps on them, we headed out with Nico to check out the nearby slackcountry. After about 20 minutes of skinning on a flat ridge going East of the resort, we ended up on a nice run on which it was pretty easy to get some freshies.<br />
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We were both amazed about the surrounding mountain and the quietenest of the area. I’ve mostly only heard about the big skiing super-resort before this year, but I have to say that there is a lot to discover and some great under-the-radar destination in France.<br />
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We drove back to Grenoble to pick him up and Amelie and drove back to the Maurienne valley to do a little backcountry the following day. We spotted a nice start from which it seemed to have multiple options. The parking from which we needed to start was around 1700m near the station St-François-Longchamp (that I learn the existence on that day...) From there, I thought we would have some good chance to still get some nice cold snow.<br />
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After 5-10 minutes skinning up, with the warm temperature and the harsh sun, we decided not to try the north facing slopes, but instead to go more towards the south facing aspect and try to harvest some corn.<br />
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Warm it was certainly for sure!!!<br />
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After a pleasant bread-salami-cheese snack, we were down for the harvesting! Snow was just perfect. With 5-10cm of melted corn sitting on top of a steady surface, we were all able to carve some buttery turns as you would usually dream on in April!<br />
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With Babiche leaving the following day, we drove back to Grenoble to enjoy a relaxing après on our patio!<br />
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Some more snow is on the forecast for Italy, so I guess that will be our next destination!<br />
Cheers,<br />
evans</div>
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Luckily for us, it has snowed quite a lot with the last system around Grenoble and conditions were looking pretty good. We still had the useless RV parked near my apartment and the owner wasn’t available to take it back leaving us to stick around home....</div>
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Babiche was still a bit sick from iis manly flu but by carefully managing half-truth and unknown promises, I manage to lurk him all the way up the Charmant Som in the Chartreuse Massif. </div>
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It was quite a perfect day! </div>
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With pretty much no wind, not too warm for the snow to transform but still really not cold, broken clouds getting stuck on the surrounding peaks, it was quite unreal!</div>
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Amelie joined us the following day as we headed out near the Grande Chartreuse monastery. This monastery is actually the one that gave the name to the alcohol and the mountain range! </div>
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I have been hiking around this area during the autumn and I did spotted some nice tree run. We had quite a hard time to find the one that I’ve seen but found some good trees to have some good safe tree laps. </div>
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Before we headed out to the trees behind the Grande Chartreuse, we went to a parking lot near St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse from which there was a good run (from the information we were able to gather) to be done. </div>
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I took off with Babiche into a fairly whiteout kind of day. We were trying to follow the written instructions about where to go but eventually took a wrong turn and ended up into a dead-end kind of couloir. Being a bit tired from opening an above the knee skintrack and not finding the motivation to go any higher with the low visibility, we ended down and follow the gully in which we went up. </div>
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We worked pretty hard to open up the skintrack in the adjacent forest to preserve the gully untrack. We were pretty glad that we did so on the way down since we were really able to enjoy the snow!</div>
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For our next tour, we figured, we would stick to some more common touring area to avoid the brutal skin-up. We drove to the Col de Marcieu and headed toward the Couloir en Virgule. This area feature a nice couloir. </div>
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With Babiche still not 100%, we started skinning in the little family resort. </div>
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The skintrack gently follow a summer road all the way up. As we were almost to the top, we stop for a little lunch break hoping that the clouds would burn off. We waited for about 30minutes shelter near a big rock face. </div>
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A group of 2 Frenchies went by and we talked for a few minutes. They keep going up and after 10minutes, they scream back at us saying that they were over the clouds!.... </div>
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We both felt pretty stupid at this moment!</div>
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We rushed up to the top as we were barely above the clouds. We waited for a few minutes and were able to get some sneak view of the Belledonne range just in front once in a while. After the mandatory picture, we made it down straight into the clouds. We were probably able to make 1 and a half turn before we were totally submerge by clouds.</div>
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The couloir was fairly tracked out and there wasn’t much freshies to be found. It is actually quite hard to find the typical itinerary that I am used to. </div>
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A lot of the routes that you can find are not really focusing on the skiing but on the view, the vertical that you can do (European really love long approach followed by big vertical). The focus is really not as much about the down as in North America....</div>
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Anyway, home-based snowchasing as its advantages as we discussed those differences over a cheese fondue!</div>
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Babiche being still down from his flue, I went out with Amelie for a tour this time over on the Vercors massif. Grenoble being surrounded by mountains, there is actually more than 4 different mountain range less than 30 minutes drive.</div>
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We started under the clouds without any visibility. </div>
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After trying to find a parking spot to go towards the Crocs, we parked to a different parking lot figuring that we would find our way up nevertheless. We followed a skintrack and we were pretty sure we were straight on target and climbing towards our goal. Things got a bit clearer as we made it above the clouds. </div>
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After looking at the guidebook, we figured that we were almost at the right place and we thought we matched features from the picture in the book. That was until we realize that the passage we were aiming for was a really steep, unpractical rock face and that figure we were go to the nearby summit. </div>
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Once up there, we eventually figured out that we were one mountain away from the one we were aiming for... I am really use to follow a skintrack that is going to a single goal, but there is so many people touring and skintrack going all over the place in Europe, that it is almost impossible to see where you are and where you are going if you don’t have any visibility to start with and no GPS.</div>
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Anyway, after feeling quite stupid (again!!!), we enjoyed the nice bright sun and the inversion providing a nice see of clouds above which only the tallest peaks (including the Mt Blanc!!) where showing off!</div>
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On the following day, the forecast wasn’t that great. I was planning to go skiing out with Amélie, and two of her friends, Ali and Pauline. Ali works as a professionnal rescuer and live in the Vercors. I didn’t really look at the skiing option and figured out that he would know better than me!!!</div>
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With some wind that were supposed to get above 80km/h, he planned a lower altitude tour. We started out not too far from his home and started to gain altitude on some open mountain fields. As we were making our way up, the wind picked up and the further we were making it up, the worst it got. </div>
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With the wind scouring the snow and with not much skiing pleasure in sight, we skied down figuring that it won’t be a day to remember for years to come! It would have been nice to be able to complete the tour he planned since it included some nice skiing, but I guess we can't still control the weather!</div>
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Stuck in Chamonix because of the massive snowpocalypse<br />
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With a HUGE storm on the forecast and still having to deal with our slick-tire-mounted-RV, we decided to drive to Chamonix to wait for the snow to hit us. Since it is too dangerous to drive the beast into a snowstorm over a mountain pass, we figured it would be a better idea to drive over the Col de la Forclaz and go to Chamonix while the snow hasn’t started yet.<br />
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Even if there was more than 40cm on the forecast overnight, the snow didn’t came early. While waiting for the snow, the boyz hammered the Brossignol ski-shot resulting in a beatered crew in the morning.<br />
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Since my girlfriend has driven all around Switzerland to meet us and was all fired up to go skiing in the morning. I left the boys get their head out of their butt and left with Amelie to go skiing.<br />
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When it is dumping, the Chamonix valley is renowned to drain into Les Houches which is one of the very few places where you can get some skiing not in the alpine. Not too excited about the idea of having to share the powder with that many people, I left with Amelie towards the Grand Massif.<br />
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As we got there, snow was coming down hard.<br />
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Beside the resort call Flaine, the Grand Massif is really not renowned as a powder heaven.<br />
We actually got the surprise to find a fair of bit of groomed runs when we got there!<br />
We started our day in Les Carroz-D'Araches, where it looked like we would be able to get some good snow and good visibility.<br />
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With plenty of room, we manage without to much problem to find some fairly deep snow!<br />
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Snow kept on falling overnight and with the RV still stuck in Chamonix, I rallied up with Amelie, Etienne and Babiche and we headed over Combloux which seemed to be a nice little quiet resort.<br />
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Quiet it was for sure!<br />
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There was so much snow overnight, that it took forever to the mountain to open up their slopes. Being more a family resort than a steep tree-run paradise, they had to groom most of the runs to let the skier not getting stuck in the snow.<br />
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Skiers were not the only one being stuck since deers were also having a hard time coping up with that much snow!<br />
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Battery failure kept the camera in the pack....<br />
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Next day was not supposed to be the best one ever. With some snow on the forecast and overcast sky, the boyz made the call to go over towards the Grand Montets. The snow was fairly good despite a rather treacherous base from which you had to be fairly alert not to ruin your ski base.<br />
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Everyone had a good day riding pow until the snow and the bad visibility finally made its way by late afternoon.<br />
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With the dead count rolling and the avalanche forecast being still on the high side (4 out of 5),we eventually decided to move the RV towards a more treed up destination. That would allowed us to stay safe in the resort while enjoy the powder orgy!<br />
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That leds us for a 3-4 hours drive from Chamonix to La Clusaz (for what could have been a 65km drive). We even had to put the chains in Annecy and to make the last 40km up the road driving at snail speed with the chains on.<br />
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All that driving paid off the following morning!<br />
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After a few not so good runs where all the fatigue from the previous day was showing off, we eventually found a really nice run just under the gondola.<br />
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We lapped it furiously all afternoon until no one was able to ski properly!<br />
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Babiche being sick, we tried to convince him that he didn’t missed that much....<br />
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An (other) late night over at the nearby bar grounded the crew for a day of skiing.<br />
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We had planned to keep the RV for one more week, but it has been so much of an hassle to travel with such a dangerous vehicule to drive on the snow, that we figured taht we would be better without it. With Etienne and Nic leaving to go back to Canada, we drove to Grenoble, clean the RV and made the plan to split up.<br />
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Etienne and Nic will fly back home as planned.<br />
Jeff and Denis would rent a car and make their own way.<br />
I would rallied up with Babiche and do some home based snowchasing while waiting until we can drive the RV back to its owner.<br />
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More powder harvesting on its way!!<br />
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For the next two weeks, I planned a trip around the Alps with my good friends from Quebec. We rented a RV from a guy about an hour from Grenoble. I picked it up and drove to the airport to pick them up. We were trying to build up from <a href="http://snowchasers.blogspot.fr/2011/02/dark-side-of-rv-travel.html" target="_blank">our previous misadventures of 2011</a>.</div>
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The boys landed in Geneva according to the plan with all their luggages. </div>
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The best snowpack and weather forecast seemed to be in the northwestern part of Ticino (the Italian side of Switzerland). </div>
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With the recent explosion of the Swiss franc, it made sense to load up on supplies in France. After a 2 hours grocery, we were finally all packed and ready to roll.</div>
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The road conditions were certainly not the best with some snow falling in the plains of Switzerland. The boys were not paying much attention since they were catching up from their previous sleepless night. We eventually stopped near the northern entrance of the Gothard tunnel on our way to Airolo.</div>
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The following morning, we drove the last kilometers that were separating us from the good snow and at the end of the 17km long tunnel, the snow was there.</div>
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We were fairly excited and figured the Val Bedretto valley will probably offers us some good options. After a few kilometers, we stopped to put the chains on. </div>
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First one got on in a minute, but we weren’t able to put the second one on. </div>
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We eventually took the already put on one to compare the two to realize that the chain that were coming with the camper have been previously broken and badly repaired. We unsuccessfully tried to repaired them and had to set up for another option. </div>
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We spotted some ski tracks coming from the Val Canaria and with not that much time to look for another option, we put the skins on and started to hike up. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Being new to the area, we didn’t had much idea of where we were going and eventually spotted a treed ridge on which we thought it would be nice to make some turns. The wind was really strong at the treeline and we figure it wouldn’t be interesting to go any higher. </span></div>
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Snow was fairly crappy near the top, but it got better a bit lower down. </div>
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After a few good turns, we try to figure some good skiable tree run on the way down, but it was mostly a tree-smashing-marathon, that needed to be rinse with some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine" target="_blank">mulled wine</a> (gluhwein)...</div>
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We tried to get some new chains the following day, but there was none in town. A garage offered us to order them and to come pick them up by the end of the day. Since the snow coverage was getting thinner and thinner going down from Airolo, we bought a single ride up and figured that it would be nice to give a try to the backcountry near from the resort. </div>
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As we were going up in the tram, Jeff realize that his skiboot looked weird. We then realized that the top-piece was broken. After a quick fix, we left him and headed out to check the snow conditions. </div>
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We had to look for some wind protected aspect to find good snow. Anything that the wind could have hitted was hard and crusty. After poking around, we eventually found some good snow on which we managed to carve some nice turns. </div>
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The following day, we all had in mind to go check out the Val Bedretto since it was our original plan. With beefier chains, confidence was maximum. We drove until we found some snow, stopped to put the chains. Start driving and after about 2m (that is 6feet), one of our new chain broke...</div>
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We were all bummed and pissed. We drove back to the car dealer to expose our point and he said that he would return them and if he gets a credit (which can take around 2-3weeks, it would send it by bank transfer... We haven’t heard from him yet...</div>
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We went back to the area located lookers left of the Airolo resort to make some more turns. We found some good openings through the trees and manage to get some not super deep but smooth turns. </div>
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A bit sick of not being able to drive on the road around Airolo, we left to try something better. </div>
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After a long internet stop and some debates during which Jeff bought some new boots, we figured that driving towards the Swiss Valais could be a good option.</div>
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We stopped near Gruyère (home of the famous cheese) and figured that we would finish the road the following morning. </div>
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As we were driving towards Martigny, we saw some nice looking lines on the Fribourg Alps but we ignored them since we thought it would be better in the Valais just 30-40km from there. </div>
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As we were entering into the valley, we realized that we probably made a mistake and that it would have been better near the Fribourg Alps. We drove up to the Col de la Forclaz, since it is one of the higher point from which you can start skinning. </div>
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Even then, the snowpack was less than 30cm and most of it was unpack snow. </div>
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We skinned up anyway even if rocks and the surroundings were really not looking good. </div>
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We eventually stopped on the first plateau, got some panoramic photo and eventually start to ski down and try not to ruin our skis. </div>
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We made it down safely following our skintrack and then drive down to Martigny to try to make a plan. </div>
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With some major snowfall on the forecast for the nearby Chamonix area and dry road, we figure it would be better to drive there and wait for the snow to come. </div>
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With all the weather forecast calling for a major dump, hopefully it would be right for once!</div>
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Snow is on its way!!!</div>
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