Zinal, La Vie, La Poudreuse
11th March 2008
Towards the end of last week the forecasts started to indicate some major snowfall, there’s been a couple of small falls and some pretty good skiing but today was the first day we really started to see the amounts of snow that had been forecast. As I write this now it’s started to snow heavily again here at village level, the forecast suggests this will continue on and off for some days.
I was actually the first person on the slopes this morning, I rode the early lift at 0830 with two other people, neither of whom actually went onto the slopes so for 20 or 30 minutes I was the only person on the mountain.. Since it had snowed after they’d prepared the runs I had some fun tracking those for a while and then went for a coffee when the crowds arrived. One of the next lifts brought Neil, Claire and snowboarder friend of theirs and we headed out to ski the fresh powder. It’s a quiet week and we pretty much had the off-piste to ourselves.
Above left, a run in the powder from the ridge of the Sorebois, standard stuff but good fun. Above right, Neil explains the route (or that’s how it looks) in one of the more hidden off piste bowls.
Above left, looking back up the pitch and the slightly steep entrance and, above right, looking back on the whole line. We did a few lines in here, the conditions were good and as the light failed it was marginally better here for us. As the snow got heavier we just headed down a prety untracked Chamois into Grimentz and the bus back.
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