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Its New Years Day and Tom wakes me up to drag me up the Midi about 4 hours after having crawled home from the Jekyll. Look how skiable this top section of the Cosmiques is. Just as the couloir goes out of sight round the bend there was a section that had to rapped with the skis on the sacs.
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At about half way down the Cosmiques there is usually a small rock band that can be skied in places or jumped easily. It is now about 5m high. On looking back up it can still be hucked but you need to be sure the landing is soft.
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Here we have to drop into that rough looking slot in front and then swing a right back round underneath ourselves.
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When swinging that right it pays to look out for smaller slots. This one was only about 3/4 of a meter wide but it went a long way down. I could see about 20m to 30m down and it carried on after that into the blackness. We decided to rope up at this point.
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Interesting little traverse. There was a hole below me that swallowed up all the snow that fell into it, made you wonder how deep it was.
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Back along the footpath to the mid station. By this point hangover, hunger and fatigue were all fighting hard to knock me out. This would have been a relatively mild day without the excesses of the night before but it felt like an epic to me.
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