UCPA Chamonix 2013 day 5 – Flegere and Brevent

As forecast, it had clouded over again and, as forecast it tipped with heavy snow all day!

We went to Flegere in the morning and worked on technique for skiing in deep power, we pretty much had no other choice! It was heavy going and I began to feel the heavy day I had yesterday. We were all quite wet come lunch so we broke for an hour.

After lunch we headed to Brevent via Liaison and played in the off piste forest beside Tetras, it was hard going and I totally wiped out at one point (twisting my knee…), but it was fun! Then we headed to the very icy black La Breche that I did last thing yesterday, it wasn’t icy any more! But covered in knee deep powder, which was hard going with it being so steep. When we were going down it, the avalanche safety guys were out setting off little avalanches and looking for bigger ones that might go off. A small one went off at the side of the traverse we were going along. It ended up being our last run of the day, we were all wet and some were getting cold.

I went to the swimming pool with a couple of girls from my group. It was really nice to get totally warmed up. I hadn’t been to the pool since I was a child on holiday, it hasn’t changed that much.

Back to UCPA for another lovely dinner and an early night.

It was still snowing hard when I went to bed! Tomorrow is going to be a physical day!