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French Alps, Mountains, Val d'Isere

Up and down the Gros Caval glacier

Spring snow down Gros Caval
Spring snow down Gros Caval

The last time we headed out to the back of the Col Pers we trekked through blizzard and skied on frozen-over chopped up snow. After several days of sunshine and warm weather, the conditions today were mercifully kinder and incomparably more pleasant.

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