Charmey en Gruyère, 16 February 2005
16th February 2005
Charmey’s another of the Gruyère stations, it’s pretty near La Berra (below), in fact on a good day you probably traverse between them without too much difficulty. Like some of the other local stations they seem to have one good lift,a télécabine in the photo’ above, then a series of drag lifts.
The snow was getting heavier as I drove there and the ride up in the lift was a bit windy. I did a few runs in the high wind and driving snow before I recalled my jacket had an “emergency storm hood” in the collar, this is basically a light fleece balaclava, after putting it on things got more comfortable.
There’s been a lot of snow fallen here this week, the continued fall and drifting means they’re not really to piste properly so there’s over the top of the boot powder on most runs going on to knee deep in places. Off piste it’s more like waist deep,
I headed down through an off-piste tree line with some local guys and we got stuck in very deep snow in one of the glades. The guy in yellow (below) is about to get stuck up to his chest in fresh snow and it took him some serious effort to get free.
In fact the run of the day was a blast down from the top through the trees to the car-park, I’ve never skied below the mid-station before as there isn’t always enough snow.
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