You'll need touring skis and skins for this...Picture 1 is from the Pianalunga mid station...the line is pretty obvious.
Take the Cimalegna cablecar up to the Passo Salati. On the piste map (http://www.ski-monterosa.com/alagna_piste_map.pdf) there is col marked "Passo Zube" - this is the first destination.
To get to the Passo Zube, you will need to ski partly down the red run from the Passo Salati, and leave the run to your left and traverse the side of the mountain; ideally someone will have left an traverse. This will take you about 250m under the Passo Zube, at which point you put on the skins (Picture 2).
Picture 2
Skin up for about 40 minutes until you reach the signpost at the top of the Passo Zube. Keep skiing past the sign and you should enter a 75m wide U-shaped valley, about 25 degrees steep.
After about 1km , you will reach the entrance to the Giachetti couloir (Picture 3). Ski down (Picture 4), and it exits (Picture 5) into the wide slopes of the lower Col D'Olen above the Pianalunga mid station.
Difficulty; in good weather it is difficult to get lost. The couloir is about low 40 degrees, quite wide depending on the snow level. Length is about 300m...it looks more spectacular than it is difficult...
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5
Disclaimer: This blog is not responsible for any problems you may encounter from using this guide...it is indicative only. If you are unsure hire a UIAGM guide...they will probably be able to show you far better stuff anyway!
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