Riding Solo
sabato 4 maggio 2013
Piramide Vincent
SW Face
Central Couloir
May 4th 2013
The Beginning
10:30 AM, after two hours skinning i’m starting skiing down the slope. I’m trying to attempt the left couloir but snow cover is too thin and there are too many rocks, so i decide to go down by the easier central couloir. The snow is really good: winter fluffy kind of snow. That gives me security already from the top. I ski pretty fast, small turns in the upper steeper part, then big powder turns in the lower section, where the face becomes wider.
A nice run that reminds me my “baptism” of steep skiing; that had place there, the day of my 20th birthday.
Descent difficulty: 5.1
Steepness 50/55°
First Descent: Claudio Schranz 1977
Vertical drop: 900m
Top: 4215m
Snow conditions: Powder
