Étoile de Dormillouse with Sylvano: a traverse from Freissinières to Fournel, 1,500 metres of powder and a car-key mishap to make the return memorable.
When Sylvano suggested this descent just a stone’s throw from home, enthusiasm rose quickly. Much faster than we did!
Being cunning foxes, we leave a car in the Fournel valley and climb from Freissinières to save a few hundred vertical metres.
Unwilling to surrender to such convenience, Sylvain pioneers a style of car shuttle that leaves the situation more complicated afterwards than before.
Nothing could be simpler: leave the keys for the finishing-point car inside the car at the starting point. Such creativity!
This gives us the chance to meet some wonderfully charitable people from Grenoble, who do not hesitate to muddy their car on our country-bumpkin tracks…
Thank you for saving our honour and sparing us the mockery of the friend we would otherwise have had to call to rescue us!
Apart from that, we do manage a little skiing on Étoile de Dormillouse. Nothing exceptional, mind you: barely 1,500 vertical metres of powder.
And with all that sunshine tiring our eyes, it really is not easy!
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