Flat Light // Skiing With Your Eyes Closed on the Argentière Glacier

We are in Chamonix. This is what my fifth time here but my first time skiing and every time I've come here I've thought I wonder what it would be like to ski here and yesterday I got my first taste of Chamonix skiing and it was probably better than what a lot of people experience when they come here to ski. Yesterday we got good snow and great views. I'm with Seamus and Scott. Seamus left his phone on the bus. Still has not retrieved it and the airlines lost his luggage but things are making a comeback. We skied powder. He got his luggage but the phone is still missing. Today we're going to be going up and skiing in a beautiful area. The Argentia Glacier is where we're headed today. We're rolling the dice. It's supposed to clear up around one so our goal is to get to a place that is beautiful by one and as the clouds pull back the curtain we will see a beautiful astounding Chamonix view. One thing I have learned is there in Chamonix there's a lot of walking around town with gear on so I'm looking forward to that part the most. Just looking cool around town in my ski boots with my ice axe on my backpack. Let's go skiing. If we just like ski together keep each other in sight here and ski slow until we get below the cloud deck and then we can open it up a little bit. This is flat light. If you're not a skier then you'll have to trust me when I say this is as close as it gets to skiing with your eyes closed. In flat light it's often impossible to tell where the ground ends and the clouds begin. In these conditions you ski like a crouched tiger hope that some contrast will soon appear. We skied down in some of the best ski conditions I've ever experienced down to the Argentière Glacier and now we get to test our glacier traveling skills here on a world famous glacier. This is as French as it gets when it comes to backcountry skiing. It was never on my bucket list so I'll have to quickly put it on and then Argentière Glacier and we've broken off. This wasn't our first plan. This actually wasn't a plan at all this one but the shoot is what we've decided to do and the reason is because the forecast showed it clearing up at one and it did clear up to be fair to the weatherman who put up that forecast. It did clear up a little bit but not enough for us to ski the bigger line on the other side of the valley. We've made it to the top of what is probably the smallest line in the Alps. That's what we'll be skiing right now. We'll send Seamus down first to break it all up for us because it's about a foot of soft snow with a nice little crusty cap on top and if you don't ski I can promise you that these conditions are not the most awesome to ski. Definitely a challenge. I look at it as practice just all practice for some future more horrible experience. Challenge? It's been a 10 mile day with around 5,000 feet of climbing. We didn't get to our objective due to the weather but I wouldn't call the day a total loss. We got a lot of practice skiing in challenging conditions.