Exercise on Aiguille du midi

The weather is still playing us a game, its not perfect to go trying something big instead we ski the north face of aiguille du midi for training. Its good conditions, so close to the lift and no people this time of the year. We practice ropework and rappeling and ofcourse some qualityskiing. Today we went for eugster diagonal. I have skied this line so many times that it feels like skiing couloirensa in brevent. But you can always learning something new and be faster with ropework. :) And like always is good exercise and a another awesome day high up in the mountains.

The visibility was not so good in the start.

Dryskiing.

Ropework

Rappeling

And some skiing. :)

North Face

After several days with bad weather and some fresh snow the sun finally arrived and we could ski some good snow on the North face of Aiguille du midi, just another day in paradise.

On the top face. The snow was good to be 1st of june.

Nicklas Hansen took some nice pictures on us.Thanks

Photo: Nicklas Hansen

Photo: Nicklas Hansen

Mikko skiing before the halfmoon.

After the split.

Photo: Niclas Ferin

On the first rappel 10m. Someone had left a 10m fixed rope so we didint have to use our rope. Thanks for that!

On the pain rideu.This is the best part of the run

The traverse here the snow was good and we could do it without use the rope.

On the last rappel 30m to get into the exit.

Training days

The weather is not perfekt to ski something bigger so most of the time i have been doing skinntraining and runnning just for exercise.

Brenva Basin

Skinning to Fourche bivac to ski something in the Brenva basin. The weather was not what we was expecting the day after. Thank you Meteoblue.....

Southface Tacul

Climbing to the Bivac.

In the end we could enjoy a panoramic sightseeing over valle blanche

Dome de Miage

Dome de miage looked good from Sallanches so we went there to give it a try, Wake up 02.30 in the hut and realize that it was still soft snow and to warm to try this face. 2 long days for nothing....

3h walking to get to the snow.

Good view

The face

Took us 8h of searching to find this hut. Dont forgett the map......

03:30 in the night and it was springsnow we had to give up.

Mallory-porter Route

My friend Karel had his last day here in Cham and with fresh snow we decided to ski something from the North Face of Aiguille du Midi.

Morning light on mama midi

On the start.

Just after the split beetween eugster and mallory

I have skied this line many times but its always best when you can take your fatskies on it :)

Skiing Pain rideau

Last rappel to reach the exitcouloir

In the exit couloir.

Thanks for the day Karel