Guys Climbing & Skiing Blog: Combe du Pouce !Amazing!

Not updated for a while as have been busy with work. Went Ice Climbing last week but nothing particularly worth writing home about. We went to the Cremerie (easy Ice cragging). Here there are easy lines but we found you could mix things up by taking steep lines here and there.

16th February (Pancake Day) What a day!

Plum enjoying the Combe du Pouce

With inspiration from TV Mountain Glenn, Plum and I headed up to ski the Combe du Pouce and the continuation to Servoz (Flegere>Servoz)

TV Mountain Link:
http://www.tvmountain.com/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=112&video_id=1281)

I have not heard of much traffic on this route and I couldnt find any written info about it. So we had a quick look at the map (the Samoens one) and sat in the VB pub and worked out a skiing line.

A pleasant surprise. Going straight up from the Index lift, past the gendarme then a traverse left we crossed over the Col to a big view over the Pouce. I remembered the descent from summer and there is a very small downclimb followed by a fantastic shady bowl.

The skiing is varied and great with lots to keep you entertained. At the end of the descent, there is an amazing gorge with pitches of superb skiing.

Next was the second ascent which involved a 400m of ascent but was quite lengthy. Still, lovely spot very peaceful with nobody around.

The descent to Servoz involved skiing another gorge which had thin snow covering in sections. After, we had another small up and then some fun summer track skiing down to Servoz.

I would really recommend this! Great quality skiing. We all decided that it could be super sketchy after snowfall and we were pretty pleased that it has been 5 days after snowfall.

I guess there are many variations of the route we did, maybe later in the season the gorges would not ski so well and obviously getting down to Servoz could be difficult.