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

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

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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

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Legend of Aahhh’s – A ski film preview, plus a little history.

[ad#Adsense Banner] While we’re in the depths of our winter down under, Summer is fading in the Northern Hemisphere and the industry is in full preparation mode for the season ahead. Autumn (our Spring) is the time for the big ski movie releases, so right now it’s a Press Release here, a teaser there, and

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