Haute Route on board?
 

Planning on doing the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) on snowboard and
showshoes during the easter holiday.

Anyone in here ever done it? Any good advice?

And yes, I know about the massive hordes of people in Chamonix at that time
of year....






-V-

Haute Route on board?
 

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:44:27 GMT, "-V-"
allegedly wrote:

Planning on doing the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) on snowboard and
showshoes during the easter holiday.

Anyone in here ever done it? Any good advice?

Are you doing the traditional/original one, or the variation designed for
snowboarders?

- Dave.

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Haute Route on board?
 

Switters wrote:
Planning on doing the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) on snowboard and
showshoes during the easter holiday.

Anyone in here ever done it? Any good advice?

Are you doing the traditional/original one, or the variation designed
for snowboarders?

Wait one second, goddammit!

So you're saying there's two?

Tell me more.....pluuureeeseee.




-V-

Haute Route on board?
 

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:43:10 GMT, "-V-"
allegedly wrote:

Switters wrote:
Planning on doing the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) on snowboard
and showshoes during the easter holiday.

Anyone in here ever done it? Any good advice?

Are you doing the traditional/original one, or the variation designed
for snowboarders?

Wait one second, goddammit!

So you're saying there's two?

Tell me more.....pluuureeeseee.

Well, it goes like this:-

There's the traditional one which skiers have used for ages. Then
there's a modified variation (maybe more than one?) designed for
snowboarders, which minimises the ascents required.

I've not done either, but I was curious as to which one you were doing.
I'm not sure how well known the variation is. Ask your guide which
you're doing.

- Dave.

--
The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky.
http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow -
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Haute Route on board?
 

Switters wrote:
Well, it goes like this:-

There's the traditional one which skiers have used for ages. Then
there's a modified variation (maybe more than one?) designed for
snowboarders, which minimises the ascents required.

I've not done either, but I was curious as to which one you were
doing. I'm not sure how well known the variation is. Ask your guide
which you're doing.


Guide? I don't need no stinkin' guide.....;-)

Just kidding, of course. We were planning on doing the 5-day variation.
You've got any info on that?



-V-

Haute Route on board?
 

Switters wrote:
Are you doing the traditional/original one, or the variation
designed for snowboarders?

There's the traditional one which skiers have used for ages. Then
there's a modified variation (maybe more than one?) designed for
snowboarders, which minimises the ascents required.

Seems like we're doing the fairly traditional one: Argentiere-Trient
Hut-Bourg St. Pierre-Valsorey Hut-Chanvion Hut-Vignettes Hut-Zermatt.

6 days, all in all.


Any comments on that?





-V-