New Videos-Vanoise, Chamonix, Otztal and Ortler round up
Sorry for the lack of blogging recently. I have been huts pretty much continuously for the past few weeks, here are 3 short videos of some recent trips, The vanoise traverse, a great week round Chamonix and the Benevolo hut with Brian and Liz and a ski Safari based round the Bella Vista and Similaun huts in the Otztal.
Last week I was in the Ortler based from the Branca and Pizzini huts, this is a great area I hadn't skiied from the branca hut before, the hut sits in a cirque of north facing galciers with loads of ski touring options. We started the week in poor weather skiinning to the hut, we woke to clear skies and fresh snow on Monday morning and headed for the Palon de La Mare, which gave a skin of 1200m to start the week and a great powder descent. Tuesday we skied the Punta San Mateo some steep skinning for a short section allowed us to skin right to the summit cross, we had great powder on the descent that changed seemlessly to spring snow low down. Wed we had an easy day and skied then skinned to the Pizzini hut, this as good as it gets when it comes to comfortable huts, ensuite showers and toilets at 2700m. Thursday we climbed the Zufall Spitzen which gave a really nice scramble to the summit. We finished the week skiing the Col Pale Rosse then heading for the valley. Im off to the Bernese Oberland this afternoon for the last weeks work of the season. Hope you enjoy the videos.
bella vista safari from Bruce Goodlad on Vimeo.
Ski touring Chamonix benevolo from Bruce Goodlad on Vimeo.
Vanoise Traverse on ski from Bruce Goodlad on Vimeo.