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The Grand Tour of the Midi Viewpoints, Feb. 5

Miguel Angel and Snow White, arriving at summit of Pic Cheru, Ecuador on this long journey on skis

The Grand Tour of the Midi d'Ossau Viewpoints

Saturday February 5, 2011

Donato Molina, Champi (Angel Jaen), Marie-Claude Tourillon, Miguel Angel Campos, Enrique Lardiés, Jordi Bordas, Cesar Arias, Francisco honeydew, Juan Carlos Vazquez-Molini, White Snow and Jorge G ª-Dihinx

This beautiful circular route I dictated over the phone July Benede , step by step, inch by inch. And key. It develops

skis in its entirety, consisting of 5 and 5 decreases and increases totaling nearly 2,000 m of altitude accumulated. We recommend starting early, so it does not take over the day. A cost us about 9 hours to complete! Can be reduced by avoiding the last peak (Peyreget) and returning directly to the soum of Pombia coll.

This time the group was large, it was joined by friends of Henry Lardiés Madrid and add a total of 11 skiers!

The route leaves the parking lot and go to coll Portalet the Soum de Pombie and follows the ridge to the peak, the peak of Pombie Soum. From the top you start skiing down the back towards the east until it lies flat, down gentle slopes to the plains north of the hut Glera. First stop to take water from the river and rest eating. A quarter of an hour later and climb fur pondermos the 2 nd pass of the day, Pombie coll. From there we descend to the north through the valley that leads to the cabin of Sauber. Before downloading both stop to reach the valley coming from Magnabait coll. Second place to fill water.

valley in each fund may be taking water (given for 3 refills!), Thus "the inexhaustible bottle" ... We

skins, leaving the left of Magnabait coll, got on the Pic Cheru, the large window. There hacermos photos. January Souvenirs 2009, same peak I met Snow White. It's been two years ...

But not much time today to remember. Soon it went down is still cut and the day is not very long. We skied back to coll Magnabait coming to the saving of a tip by his side. From the pass down the valley that falls from the Coll de Suzon, where aa again take water from the bottom of the valley before relocating skins. It should be well hydrated.

As we prepare for our 4th climb of the day, the sun begins to hide behind the Midi d'Ossau. Then the endless Champi begins to open a huge footprint that will take us to shoulder Suzon coll. Thank you very much Mush!

climbed the hill into the shade, with sun on the last ramp and beautiful silhouettes of our peers. When you reach the hill, look back a little closer to a shoulder to stop the sun to eat and drink. Forces and utterly (and how it has opened such a super Champi footprint?).

After eating and resting, remove skins and draw diagonal gentle descent to the base of the Grand Raillere du Pombie. There the group wants to tackle, and the car back on 1 coll of the day (the recommended option, of course). Yet somehow, convince them one by one making the final climb of the day, the Peyreget! Thus, with the transmission chain of dominoes, in the end they all point to this last climb. It's after 4 pm, but in February the sun sets later than 6. We still can!

We passed under the canal du Midi de la Fourche ramps and shadow, very hard (cutters) path of Peyreget coll. The forces are depleted, one step, another step, which already is low, yes, we arrived, looking to Champi already at the top, we soon too, but how far it is still ... never mind, you stick up behind that is the sun waiting ... and suddenly, there we were all at 17:30 at the top of Peyreget! Yupiiii! We got
skiing on the southwest side with the sun setting on the horizon and snowy spring. What lights dream and what time. But when we reached the shade is forming a nice crust that will accompany us to the car. To survive! We seem to tram drivers, marking it the rails and barely able to rotate. Wedge Viva!

And little by little we finally reached the river and paddled to get under the road. We did it!

What a great day and what a great group of friends! To celebrate with some tapas and beer away!

Congratulations to all, you are a champion! Jorge

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