Some pictures from Les Grands Montets and Le Montenuers RR
Top of the Lognan lift looking down to where we start the run down the Argentière
Don't think we are going to ski down here!
Entering the Glacier d'Argentière
Lunch on the deck at Contamines
Anne, Joan, Janet, and Olivier (guide)
Snows have finally arrived so we take a day off to do the Aiguille du Midi but hi winds have closed the lift so we do the Montenuer cog RR instead
Going to the hotel and a good lunch place
With a stop at the natural history musee - good illustration of why there are no pheasants at Marshlands!
These are the ice caves we are going down to visit. Note the caves from prior years which have to get cut out each year as the glacier moves down slope about 100m/yr
Oops!
Entrance to the ice cave. That ice is about 1000 years old!
A bunch of old timers hanging out at the glacier
Anne Moore at Lunch
Lunch
Joan eating lunch
Another patron we met
and her big brother.
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Friday we do a trip up the Aiguille du Midi without skis
The big picture of the Aiguille du Midi cable car system
Technical details
and the control room
Climbing up to the observation deck
Kids!
Aiguille du Midi at sunrise