Night Mission - Vallee Blanche under a Full Moon

13th- Feeling a bit better now! Very psyched up to get some good stuff done this week to make up for last week in bed.

So I realised.... Shit! It was Full Moon last night, missed it. Since last year I had wanted to ski the Vallee Blanche under a full moon after reading Jon Griffiths' article :

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=820

Anyway, it was a Friday - it had been a nice day but only got a bit of Skiing done at Brevent in the morning. So I made some calls and soon enough there was 6 of us waiting at the bottom of the midi in the afternoon ready for the last bin. A motly crew of Chris and mates. Our plan was to ski to the Cosmiques Refuge for a rather luxury dinner to while away the evening until the moon was bright enough to guide us down.

Cutting the story short, we had a fantastic dinner, wine and beers and chatted bollocks for a fair while. Sunset over Chamonix was beautiful as ever. We departed at 11pm when we could see fairly well. Skiing over the VB without any headtorch, guided by the moon was really amazing.

Note the view from the window!

Such a good thing to do and it was a good crack with a good bunch. Photos should be on their way, hopefully we have some good ones.

Headtorches had to come out for a few sections where the moon had dissappeared behind some of the mountains.


Thanks to Charlie for letting me put these cool photos he took onto the blog

All in all....good crack. Got down at 2am to Chamonix after the Ski down the James Bond track to a rather bare looking Planards a the lift is now in Krgyzstan.

Had to get up for work at 6am..... Bummer

14th- Went to work. loved every minute ;)

Anticyclone now relaxing above us. Stable conditions for time to come! Keep a lookout for more posts.