March 27th, 2009 | 
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Back on the Eissassa Rog and I spotted some likely lines over on the Peouvou. Rog was most keen on the left hand line, but we didn’t know if it went through the cleft in the rocks. I was after the right hand couloir with the S at the top.
The couloir that I had intended to ski with Hubert on Sunday was still un-skied. Alex and Dave had had a few days warming up in the area so I managed to convince them to have a go at it.
I saw a nice looking couloir on the pic du Jaillon last weekend when I was up at Arvieux skiing with Ollie. I had a look in the book and couldn’t find it so I managed to get Hubert interested in going and checking it out.
This was probably the first steep ski mountaineering line that I did in the Chamonix valley. I hooked up with Graham Frost who had been in the area for a couple of years and knew the place well.
Then the battery went flat. The slope is the large one to the right of the rocky peak. There is about 1050m of climbing to get to the top of the slope and it gets a 5.1 grade.
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