On March 15th we did a hike up to the Top of 'Mickey's Ears', which is a Satellite dish at the top of one of the mountains (it's called Mickey's ears because the two dishes look like Mickey Mouse's ears). After the 20/30 minute hike we skied down the back face through a couloir in some pretty good powder before it opened up to a wide powder field. The ski lasted just over an hour down to the big lake at the bottom of the valley between Tignes and Val d'Isere, over 1000m vertical decent. When we got to the lake our guide arranged a Heli Pick-Up to take us back into Val d'Isere rather than the 3 our hike it would have been otherwise. The skiing was amazing but having never been in a helicopter before that's probably what I enjoyed the most!
The view as we hiked up.
Me hiking and the lake we skied down to in the background.
Mickey's Ears, the satellite dishes we hiked to along the ridge.
The first face we skied down after the hike, very steep at the top.
A shot after skiing the face, you if you look really closely you can see Mickey's Ears at the top of the central peak, which is where we skied from.
Me on the ski down.
The lake we skied to before getting picked up by the Heli.
Danny, Steve (our guide), Me, Jamie and Charlie at the bottom.
Inside the Helicopter.
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