Y Couloir, Aiguille d'Argentiere, Chamonix Mont Blanc area

The ski mountaineering competition season is finished, now it's time to enjoy the mountains... today (in a not great weather day) we decided to climb again the Aiguille d'Argentière. But this time we headed for the Y couloir. It's a 400m couloir on the E face of the Aiguille de Argentiere. The conditions were great, the snow was hard and we progressed really fast.

On the other side, the ski conditions were really crap. We couldn't ski from the col just below the summit. So we had to down climb the couloir to reach the Glacier du Milieu. But even here the snow conditions were awful. The worst ski day of the season. The visibility was also bad, with didn't help at all.

Nina and I had to ski really slowly to avoid going in the wrong direction. Half way down the Glacier du milieu, the fog cleared and we enjoyed a bit more the vue and the ski....

At 14h we were back in Argentière to drink our beer!!!!

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