Haute Route Ski Tour 2006 - Photo Essay / 3_001136
3_001136.jpg - 21Apr06
After ascending in beautiful blue sky weather from Cabanne des Vignettes the upper reaches of Pigne Arolla were suddenly engulfed in clouds. Although only about 60 meters from the summit, we elected to give it a pass and make our way down to Cabanne des Dix. Here Scott Tyler and Neville Mallett are reviewing our descent route on the map while Garth Pinter gets the some extra shell layers on. It is situations like this where having a topo map GPS programmed with the a safe route is definitely worth the weight and expense. The route down goes over a glacier icefall where the safe part is fairly narrow and missing it would be 'bad'.
