Whilst conditions are still not great in terms of snow volume, the descent of the VB is now possible and was busy today with the vast majority of teams descending via the Montenvers railway due to lean conditions on the lower glacier and poor rocky conditions on the final descent (walk!?) through the woods due to recent warm & dry weather. There is little to no powder left on the French side at least, but plenty of bumps!
Whilst there were also big lift queues at Brevent and the steeper off piste terrain was well tracked, it was also pretty quiet in the warm spring conditions today. There were lots of tracks on the south facing steep runs accessed from the top station meaning they were not enjoyable skiing this morning in hard & refrozen conditions but did at least soften up as the warm sunny morning warmed them up!
Teams have also been skiing the high altitude cols Tour Noire and Argentiere above the Argentiere Glacier with reasonable snow cover for this and the return descent back in to the Grands Montes lift system but with mixed snow conditions / quality!
Heading towards The Col d’Argentiere from Les Grands Montets
The snow remains cooler and lighter over on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Range and our intro ski touring group found good light snow & fresh tracks at La Thuile and snow shoeing group enjoyed 2 great journeys up to the Rifugio Bonatti in Val Feret and up towards the Col Fetita above Morge in Val d’Aosta.
Very enjoyable north face powder skiing after some good training (and lunch) at the lovely Bonatti Hut.
