Ski tour from La Mongie to Bareges

The ski area closest to us is called Le Grand Toumelet and is made of two areas called La Mongie (which is the one we drive to) and Barages. The two meet at the Col de Tourmelet. There are various ski tours which start in La Mongie and end on the Barges side. We have been through Le Pas de la Crabe before. This time we climbed up a bit further along the same ridge and went over.

The day started with a bit of a setback when Doug forgot his ski jacket, which had his lift pass in the pocket! But luckily I had an extra fleece and the nice people at the ticket office gave him a free day pass because they could see he really did have a season pass attached to mine. 

This is the combined ski area. Where we skied last weekend off the Pic du Midi is at the North in the middle. We did something like the yellow track.

This is the view of the Pic du Midi from where we set off skiing today.

This is where we came down

Today we went up the Pourteilh lift and then Quatre Termes. From there, we traversed round and climbed up to the ridge. The dotted red is the second lift, the green is the traverse and climb and blue the start of the ski down.

Here is the full route in pink.

Putting on the skins. You can see them on the bottom of the skis.

The climb up

Really pleased at having made it!

View from the top

View on the way down. We are wondering if you can get over in to another valley called the Bat d'Ourdis at the low point of this photo.

Lovely day - although the snow on the way down was quite sticky and there was the odd place we had to take skis off low down to walk through streams!

Doug had another incident at the end of the day where he left his gloves on the bus back to the carpark. It has a happy ending because we waited until the bus came round again - not long - and someone had handed them in!