This came via my SNAM membership. I guess one of the most interesting points made in it is that the helicopter crew will eventually require your GPS coordinates, this piece accepts that transcribing these from an IGN map when under stress on the mountain is fairly difficult. It suggests that in the first instance you should describe your position via the “place names” and allow the operator to discover the correct coordinates. I wonder why it didn’t say “carry a GPS and relay the coordinates directly to the operator”?

A little circuit that took in the Col de Coux above Morzine The temperature inversion was stuck at about 1800m which made for some atmospheric pictures.

This was a route researched by Steve Norris linking the Col de Coux to the Chalets d’Aiguille below the Pointe de Fornet.

A GPS download and stats for the trip available at mtbguru.com and  pictures on Flickr.

There was about 20cm of windblown snow above 2000m that had formed isolated slabs of up to 30cm and drifts up to 1m. Signs of recent spontaneous slab avalanches off the ridges.