Courmayeur, Italy, Report: The Tête du Grand Mont Couloir

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Tete du Grant Mont Couloir

Report from March 4, 2025

There’s a chute the looms over the town of Courmayeur and the ski resort.

We can see it from Martin’s house, from town, Dolonne, the ski resort, the Skyway, and just about everywhere else.

We knew we had to ski it.

Skiing The Tête du Grand Mont Couloir in Courmayeur, Italy

Motivations and conditions appeared to line up on Monday and we set out.

4 ski lifts, a traverse, some skinning, and a killer bootpack lead us to the top.

I started out then Martin did the vast majority of the bootpack work.

Drone Video of Skiing The Tête du Grand Mont Couloir, Italy

We hit the top after about 1.5 hours of booting.

I felt great.

It was easy following Martin’s track in our mini-snowshoes.

Marting taking the lead. image: snowbrains

Most of the chute was covered in a stiff wind crust, not the Alaskan Velvet we’d hoped for.

I dropped first and experienced 5 good turns before the breakable crust.

I battled and struggled until the apron where some smooth orange peel snow allowed for an easy escape.

That one! image: snowbrains

It wasn’t perfect, but we were stoked to have checked it off.

Supposedly Nikolai Schrimer has skied this chute…

Martin & I traversed back to the ski resort and met up with my wife and Cory for an all-afternoon blitz of groomers, good food, and full laughs.

Martin with Courmayeur town in the back. image: snowbrains

Dinner at Padella in town was pizzarific. 

This place is magic.

Grazie, Italia!

Snow Numbers

image: courmayeur, 3/9/25

Forecast

image: snow-forecast.com, 3/9/25

Photos

Breakfast view. image: snowbrains
Morning commute. image: snowbrains
Big Dolonne Couloir. image: snowbrains
Courmayeur groomer love. image: snowbrains
Groom doggin’. image: snowbrains
Courmayeur .image: snowbrains
Tete du Grand Mont Couloir. image: snowbrains
Sardine can and Meier skis. image: snowbrains
Future zone… image: snowbrains
Martin starting up .image: snowbrains
Martin. image: snowbrains
Martin booting. image: snowbrains
Almost to the top. image: snowbrains
Looking down the chute. image: snowbrains
Martin. image: snowbrains
Tete du Grand Mont north couloir. image: snowbrains
Terrain. image: snowbrains
Options. image: snowbrains
Sardine can. image: snowbrains
Stoked on lunch at the “Snack Station”. image: snowbrains
Sardine can, Youla. image: snowbrains
Brea
Dinner. image: snowbrains
Pizza! image: snowbrains
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