TR: Chamonix 2012 Days 6-7: Bivouac d’Envers des Dorées – The Missing TR

Filed in: Chamonix 2012, Trip Reports | Tags: Aiguille du Midi, Blizzard of Aahh's, Chamonix, Les Grands Montets, Ski Touring

Just discovered this on my laptop. I wrote it in anticipation of getting the photos from Jerome, which I never did. I have a few but he has the lion’s share. He lost the cable to his camera, I didn’t have the right card reader, and after I left we never got around to getting

TR: Chamonix 2012 Day 5 – SE Couloir of Tour Ronde to Brenva Glacier

Filed in: Chamonix 2012, Trip Reports | Tags: Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, Courmayeur, Punta Helbronner, Ski Touring, Skiing, Steep

After yesterday’s successful mission on the Italian side skiing the Aiguille d’Entreves we concluded that if the weather remained the same our best chance of skiing some steeps was in a similar location, and now that Jerome had tested how I’d cope with some basic climbing we set our sights on a larger objective –

TR: Chamonix 2012 Day 4 – Steep Skiing – South Face of L’Aiguille d’Entreves

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After yesterday’s aborted mission on the Glacier Rond we figured if we wanted to ski a steep line a better option would be to head over to the Italian side which is the South Face of the massif, and basking in sunshine we were anticipating being presented with some lovely corn snow. So after heading

TR: Chamonix 2012 Day 3 – Glacier Rond Failure, Vallee Blanche Plan B

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It started with a loaded question over dinner – ‘Are your edges sharp?” – I replied in the affirmative and said they had been serviced that day. I didn’t think much of it as our plan for the next day was to climb over the Col du Chardonnet and spend a night in a refuge

TR: Chamonix 2012 Day 2 – Glacier du Tour Noir

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After a great ski tour yesterday the day dawned sunny again so more touring seemed to be the logical conclusion. The Argentiere Basin is an area that I had not spent any time at all in (if you exclude skiing from the top of Grands Montets). Col du Passon is a Chamonix classic that I

TR: Chamonix 2012 Day 1 – Col du Belvedere

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After a very worthwhile week in Turkey (more details on sister blog aussieskier.com ) I came back to Chamonix to ski for myself. After landing in Geneva I jumped in a van to Chamonix and met up with Jerome to check in to the amazing apartment he found for me. I am very spoiled and