Nick from Ski Higher latest off piste adventures – new decade, new powder…

1st of January 2010! A new decade has brought new snow. Over night
snow combined with the snow that had been falling at high altitude all
week has created epic conditions at the top of Courchevel. More snow
is even falling all the way down to ‘Le Praz’ as I write.
It’staken its time coming but winter really does feel like
it’s finally here!

I and a Friend (Ed from Ski Higher) managed to fight off mighty
hangovers this morning and rip our best lines of the season. The
‘Creux Noir’ Chair, which opens up another huge area of off piste,
opened today and what lay at the top of the rickety three seater was
truly breath taking! From 12:00 till 14:00 the clouds parted and
allowed us to ski a warm up run on the open face to the left of the
chair.

We then traversed further on our second line hunt, only to be told by
a mountain guide that the Couloir we wanted to ski had a huge
overhanging slab that looked set to break at any moment. This forced
us to ski into the Meribel valley and do a face neither of us had done
before.

However as we rounded a small outcrop of rocks a face 60 turns long
and laden with powder opened up before us. After a big man hug
and whooping we were left to enjoy the stunning scenery that the ‘Plan
Tueda’ national park has to offer!

More pics up soon…

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