~ Sunday 13th February 2011
The name is a bit misleading now the Vignettes hut has been modernised, but if you ever looked down the hole of the old toilets...yes, it's the obvious gully below the (in)famous "long drop"! The main track on the Glacier des Pieces currently leads very close under the Pigne seracs - it's well worth keeping to the left going up.
Nice little sculpture on the big rock on the glacier!
The entry to the gully is fairly steep, convex, shady, lee slope, and leads to a 700m couloir...so not a place for dodgy conditions.
The snow today was lovely for 5 turns...then crusty with huge sastrugi...then very firm the rest of the way down - easy to ski but important not to fall...
