Snow fell overnight here and in the morning Ben and I headed over towards Ax-les-Thermes to make a ski ascent of Pic de St Barthelemy. We started high above Luzenac at 1280m and were able ski straight from the car. At first it was still snowing, but soon we climbed through the clouds and emerged into the sunshine. It took a little over 3 hours to make the 1200m (4000ft) of ascent via the South ridge. The ridge had been battered by the wind and it looked like the ski down was going to be horrible, but just before the summit we got views down the South West face which was in beautiful condition.
De la neige, la nuit dernière et le matin Ben et moi sommes allé à Ax-les-Thermes de faire l'ascension de Pic de Barthelemy. Nous avons parti bien au dessus Luzenac à 1280m skis aux pieds. D'abord il neigais, mais tôt nous avons monté au dessus les nuages et sont arrivé au soliel. Il prends trois heures de faire le 1200m de dénivilée du arête Sud. L'arête a été venté at nous pensions que la descente sera "difficile", mais juste avant le sommet nous avons vu la face Sud-Ouest bien fourné avec la neige poudreuse.
The views from the summit were immense as was the ski down...glorious.
Les belles vues du sommet et une descente super chouette!
A film of the trip below. (If you have problems with playback stopping and starting, press pause and allow the film to load fully before pressing play again).
Film ci-dessous.
2 commentaires :
Looks good, very jealous :)
Yeah, it looks amazing up there. Wow... just incredible.
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