After a rainy day yesterday, we woke up to clearing skies. We decided to take the bus to Logan-Grand Montets cable car. This quickly brought us up to the 30cm of new snow and our route for the day, the Petite Aiguille Verte (~3500meters). Since we have been stuck in the low lands for the past few days, we were thrilled to finally make it up to the world of ice/snow/rock. It was a good acclimatization day and we are planning on continuing up higher tomorrow with something off of the Aiguille du Midi (midi-plan traverse or the Contamine route on Point Lachenal)
On a non-climbing note, we are glad we rented our tiny studio apartment. It was an additional cost over camping, but with the rain that would have been awful. To offset the cost, we're cooking all our meals at home so we've had fun shopping for food & speaking the language. We've made friends with a couple of cashiers at the local petite Casino (supermarket).
Here are a few pics to whet your appetite for the full albums on Picasa...
looks like a bluebird day. it also looks like you boys spent some coin on some shiny new sunglasses.
ReplyDeleteYou should have brought you board for the ride down! Snow and ice look pretty nice right now.
ReplyDeleteNick, we saw a few skiers that day and it looked great! Imagine grabbing your board and taking a lift in August to get some fresh snow!
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