Jura Traverse #4
3rd February 2010
Just a couple of photo’s from the the fourth day of the Jura Traverse. Weather was extremely poor and it just wasn’t a great day to get photo’s.
I’d spent the night at the Col du Marchairuz in the hotel there and planned to ski to Le Pont at the end of the Lac de Joux, I’d a couple of ideas for a route, ether to ski to the Col du Mollendruz or down to the lake. So I skied the ridge line to the Chalet Du Grand Essert and then decided to descend to the lake. I’d decided that the ridge wasn’t going to alter much, it hadn’t been tracked so it was hard work in places and I’d always got a descent to Le Pont off marked trails anyway.
As it was the track down to Les Bioux wasn’t prepared either and varied from unpleasant and crusted snow to packed and fairly easy. There’s supposed to be some sort of track around the lake, this wasn’t prepared either but it was easy enough skiing. Had the ice been stronger it would have been possible to ski on the lake which would have been a novelty.
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