CHAMONIX Ski and Snow Report week 9 | Another Epic week, but be careful out there

[@nathanchaszeyka]

So disappointed to hear you are injured. Hoping you're right and you can get back to some easy skiing by the end of the season. Wishing the best for recovery!

[@123006968]

Soooo sorry about the knee, get well soon!

[@andrewsmith131]

Love your work. Recover quick and well.

[@chamonixskibum]

Thanks!

[@stevewallace1367]

what a bummer - best wishes for a quick recovery !

[@gunsnroses0202]

Wishing you a speedy recovery! Really appreciate your videos, heading to Chamonix for the first time this week and have gotten so much good info from them

[@mikespence6313]

Gutted for you ! Looked to be a classic ACL 😬. But, you are in the right part of the world to have it repaired..those French surgeons are top of their game when it comes to knee injuries caused by skiing 👍

[@chrisbrewin8171]

Were over from the 12th and really looking forward to it, your videos have been brilliantly informative and enjoyable to watch. hope you recover quickly maybe catch you for a cold one!!

[@adamknight6752]

Some awesome footage, nice edits.

[@bigwave_dave8468]

Ouch, Bummer! I hope you still report while you recover! I started wearing knee hinges about 5 years ago to help prevent torn ACL and hyper-extension of my knees in a crash. In that time, I've had two incidents that were painful but avoided serious injury.

[@DavidWebster-n6f]

Epic powder wooop!

[@andrewgibson-b8g]

sorry to hear about injury. Love your video updates. Hope you have speedy recovery. Surgery?

[@chamonixskibum]

not if i can avoid it

[@justinstockting8925]

We stayed in les houches sunday-thursday,with lift queue over 2 hours long,we went to saint gervais and megeve,it was epic,1st time going there and wont be the last.

[@chamonixskibum]

@@justinstockting8925 I think the prarion gondola was broken which was why the queue fir bellevue was so bad. But yeh, evasion is always less busy

[@StuartJones-e4n]

Great update as always, but gutted for you. Take it steady and make sure you are 100% before getting back on it. If you need any recommendations for re-hab let me know. ❤

[@zever4ever]

Sunday at Grand Montets was epic. I think the best day I've ever had in my life; i'm just here for 2 weeks. We found untracked spots all day. Some a half meter deep at the wind drifts. Sorry about the injury. Folks told me it was 1.5 meter in Vallee Blanche after the snow! Crazy! Also, the 3 Norwegian guys perished in an avalanche in the Savoy that 2nd day.

[@chamonixskibum]

I think there were a number of fatal avalanches across the alps over those two days

[@zever4ever]

@chamonixskibum yea super scary for me

[@mattwoodford1820]

I hope your knee is something nonor that recovers quickly. I did my ACL MCL and IT band meniscus in March. Was usable last week but my off piste and jump ability is seriously reduced cos of the meniscus pain. Will order some goggles through your link to support your channel. Hope you heal fast and can get back out there 🙏🏼🤞🏼

[@chamonixskibum]

@@mattwoodford1820 thanks mate. I am feeling much more positive this time compared to two years ago, as I have got back to full strength once before, so I know I can do it again. Last time I waited about 6 weeks to start proper rehab, but I'm getting on it straight away this time. So hopefully I can keep everything else strong until I know what the damage is

[@mattwoodford1820]

@chamonixskibum best of luck. Hope that MRI comes quickly!!

[@robertduncanmuir]

Le Tour always dangerous considering the area is regarded as more of a beginner intermediate destination but then off piste it's a col and the wind can go both ways so you get slabs. I'll never forget venturing to the top of the Couloirs below Tete de Charamillon and watching a crack propagate from my ski and then snow and air jet out from under the settling slab as it made a whooshing noise. Needless to say no skiing that day.

[@mattwoodford1820]

You're so right about avalanches not being accidents. Level 4 is red for a reason. I've learnt a lot since I started venturing further away and the more I learn, the more surprised I am that I've survived this long. I don't think everyone appreciates that there multiple factors involved in each level such that each step up is an exponential increase in risk. It's so easy to get emotionally swept away on what appears on the surface to be great conditions when the reality is the chances of getting physically swept away are higher as decision making gets impacted by the joy of being in the mountains. As a caveat, I don't really know what I'm talking about cos I'm just a 2-3 week warrior who watches a bunch of KZbin videos in the hope of learning more hence why I'm super careful (and a bit of a 🙀) on Av3 days and would generally avoid anything on or connected to high, steep, or away from anchored terrain on Av4

[@chamonixskibum]

@@mattwoodford1820 if in doubt, don't ski it, is a pretty simple mantra. There is always tomorrow. But in chamonix everyone HAS to ski everything on day 1...

[@mattwoodford1820]

@chamonixskibum top advice! The mountains have been there for a good few million years, they're not disappearing anything soon. Your vlogs are brilliant for the level of detail, thank you so much!!

[@CJHolyoak]

bad news- hoping for a quick recovery for you

[@squashpuddle8868]

Ooopppsss it was sent twice by mistake...😁😁

[@chamonixskibum]

@@squashpuddle8868 Just doubling down on the message!

[@fischer9864]

I`m gonna be around Chamonix or Aosta valley 3.2 to 6.2.25 We are searching for some nice summits for skitouring, technical or less, but no climbing/glacier gear needed Can you recommend some peaks or nice resorts for a freeride day - hopefully there is some powder left

[@chamonixskibum]

@@fischer9864 if in chamonix then mont buet near Vallorcine is the obvious answer

[@martinhibbert1428]

Wishing you a speedy recovery. Just out of interest, with this recent snowy weather is it now possible to ski all the way into Chamonix from the Valley Blanche?

[@chamonixskibum]

well i wont know for sure now, but the 'james bond' track down to town was skiable already, it just depends if you can find your way through the terminal moraines... i expect there is a way. alternatively you can take the gondola up and ski down through the woods

[@Peakabike]

Hard luck, have a speedy recovery! Will be there for a couple of days early next week, hope the snow's still fresh. What's the app/site at 13:36?

[@chamonixskibum]

Snow-forecast.com

[@Peakabike]

@@chamonixskibum Thanks, at last a site that shows snow fall at different levels on the mountain !

[@chamonixskibum]

@Peakabike mountain-forecast.com is the same forecast model, but focused on peaks not resorts, and that gives you 4 altitude levels as well!

[@Peakabike]

opensnow does it too but they show "estimates", it's not quite clear what that is exactly...they're maybe partially based on imagery, will have to compare both sites.

[@chamonixskibum]

@Peakabike snow forecast is great for the big picture. Don't take the numbers too literally, just because it says brevent will get 20cm and GM will get 30, doesn't mean GM will have better snow. It doesn't deal very well with local variations as there is no human synthesis of the output. But you know overall if there is a big dump of snow coming or not

[@EdgarSnowSki]

Sad to hear about your injury, wish you soonest recovery, do you recon the tec binding without proper release played a part in this? I broke acl couple of years ago, dropped wrong cliff, never did operation and skiing without acl, wearing hard brace also going into the gym once a week and going lots of other exercises, so far so good.

[@chamonixskibum]

@@EdgarSnowSki I was on freestyle bindings so definitely nothing to do with it. It was just a hard landing on slightly sticky snow. My knee never was quite right.

[@vdioivmvxdstni]

Stick to the trees and stick to the lifts is not always enough; few years ago some skiers died in avalanche in magic forest.

[@chamonixskibum]

@@vdioivmvxdstni and if it's sliding in the magic forest then imagine how apocalypticly dangerous it must have been above the tree line!

[@anguscovoflyer95]

So basically the deaths were caused by people skiing on closed ski runs?

[@chamonixskibum]

No, you misunderstood me. I don't mean they shouldn't have been there because it was closed. You can do what you want in France, thus isn't America. They were not on closed pistes. Lots of people were and are continuing to ski on areas which are very clearly big avalanche risks.

[@chamonixskibum]

@@anguscovoflyer95 I'm not going to speculate on details, both avalanches occurred off piste but in resort

[@squashpuddle8868]

Good advice as usual... To all the 🏂⛷️❄️take care everyone and don't 💬 your invincible...🏔️❄️❄️❄️🏂⛷️01/02/2025

[@squashpuddle8868]

Good advice as usual... To all the 🏂⛷️❄️take care everyone and don't 💬 your invincible...🏔️❄️❄️❄️🏂⛷️01/02/2025