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shep, it's all crap. Don't go there. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Funding for this was guaranteed should Annecy have won the (2018?) winter olympic bid
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My vote is with Annecy for 2022 !!
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Just booked a week in Avoriaz for 5th Jan 2013. January is tooo far away
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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January is tooo far away
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It will be here before you know it. Plenty of opportunity to waste time looking at webcams before then 
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sanman, reckon i'll be watching the Avoriaz panoramic webcam everyday waiting for the snow
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
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After all it is free 
After all it is free
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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DJL, Thanks for the link!
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What's the latest on the new Prodains lift? I understand it's not going to be ready for December, but we're out mid-Feb - any chance?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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andy from embsay, still planned for 15th Feb AFAIK.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Marking my place on this thread, just booked Morzine for New Year 
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much 
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
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Thanks for the link DJL. I'll be visiting that page quite often I think.
And thanks for the welcomes
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You know it makes sense.
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| andy from embsay wrote: |
| What's the latest on the new Prodains lift? I understand it's not going to be ready for December, but we're out mid-Feb - any chance? |
MrsFS and I swung by the Prodains this afternoon.
Photos here and here.
There is still a heck of a lot to do, but most of the mechanics seem to be in and it looks like the cable was in ready to be tensioned. Realistically they've got a month. And they can do a lot in a month.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Cheers FlyingStantoni - only a week back from riding my bike in Mallorca in 30 degrees (and still on my summer bike here in Yorkshire) so winter still seems a long way off yet!
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Poster: A snowHead
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FlyingStantoni, Those are quite large piles of rebard awaiting installation however?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just back from the UK and we have received the Mairie quarterly bulletin.
Looks like they are reinstating the old Prodains cable car to run from December until the new one opens on 15th Feb.
Other works include,
Enlarging and refurbing the Boulevard de Skieurs using the debris from the cable car top station digout.
New teleski Cubore Swiss, guessing this replaces the drag that was removed last year at the top of the Abricotine valley.
Teleski, if I am reading it right to get you up to the new gondola station from the bus stop in prodains. To be done this autumn.
The Tronks chair lift to be replaced, starting September. Seems a very short time to complete that one. Fingers crossed as it is an important one for getting home from Les Gets for many of us.
At the top of Pt de Nyon, they have destroyed the old concrete arrival station that was an eyesore for the last 20 odd years.
For next year, a new system up the Plenay from Morzine, to complete for Christmas 2013. One system to replace the telecabine and telepherique.
FlyingStantoni, if still here, chez Nina is open for cupsa tea today, I am off to GVA at 15.35.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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New pleney gondola would be handy - even more so for the summer MTB scene than skiing. Minor pita loading bikes on that and clambering underneath with camelbak and helmet. Must be one of the busiest summer lifts too?
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DallyPaul, thanks for this - I had wondered how people would get from the bus stop in Prodains - how much car parking will there be?
Have you come across anything about the replacement of the engine/motor or whatever was required for the Ranfolly - it didn't look as if anything had happened there at all when we were around in September, but not sure what we would have seen anyway.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Good to see that the Pleney lifts are scheduled for an upgrade. The Belvedere chair needs to be replaced as well. Catatonically slow.
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The Belvedere chair needs to be replaced as well. Catatonically slow
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Is that the one that runs from just below the top of Pleney, basically along the level bit, towards LG? I've often had the impression they slow that down because of all the ski-schools. When it's quieter, it feels as if they do sometimes speed it up. But it does feel chronically slow.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
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Yeah, TS Belvedere and TS Nabor are both at the top of Pleney - Belvedere is longer and starts on the Morzine side, Nabor starts a little bit down piste D/B. Both are very popular with beginners and ski schools. I spent all my first and most of my second day there!
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After all it is free
After all it is free
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Pamski, Sorry not seen anything about the Ranfolly chair, did not even realise there was a problem.
Sure they will get it ready for December, it is a main lift in the Les Gets bowl.
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it was out of action from early March - they did a few repairs and then it was just shut for the rest of the season, so the old three man got a lot of use but it meant the top of the Tulipe was not skied - well other than by those more energetic than me who got themselves up there!
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| Lenny Law wrote: |
| Good to see that the Pleney lifts are scheduled for an upgrade. The Belvedere chair needs to be replaced as well. Catatonically slow. |
Just ski around the back. *
* Try to avoid ending up in the housing estate as I do 75% of the time!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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FlyingStantoni, easy mistake 
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
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Just ski around the back
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... expand on this please? The back of what, pray?
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You know it makes sense.
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sanman, the entrance to the 'back way' is near the bottom of the Nabor chair and is a little path that those in the know take as a shortcut over to Les Gets. It comes out near the bottom of the Folliets chair.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ok thanks. Very useful and just goes to show, I've only been ski-ing in the PdS since about 1995 .... although in my defence I know the Swiss side better.
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Poster: A snowHead
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sanman, it's a piste-basher track that's the other side of some trees and is how the local ski instructors get from Morzine to Les Gets quickly. The only problem being that it forks - and I keep taking the wrong fork... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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geetee, And I have skied more weeks than I can count in Morzine (certainly more than 75, about 50 as a saisonnaire) and I have never hear of that one.
Doh!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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FlyingStantoni, That track now appears to be a marked piste called Les Chardons. It may well have been there for years but I've never seen it marked on the map or signposted before.
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If it's the one I think, it's signed to Les Gets, but maybe not as a ski piste? and MTB link peels off thru the trees which presumably comes out a bit further down than the track.
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I now note that the Les Gets website has bothered to offer a Morzine/LG piste map, clearly done for once by a professional who understands maps, graphics, websites, PR, marketing and all the other things that the absolutely crap Morzine and Avoriaz designers do not.
However...
1. The area at the top of Pleney has been renamed "Les Folliets" -why? Why bother? Who cares?
2. I note that the avalanchey zone to skiers right of the Chamossiere black is now a "Zone Freeride". Do they think there are too many snowboarders and freeriders in town. Seems a drastic solution to me.
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under a new name, indeed, the new piste map reveals many interesting "changes". As well as those noted above I see the path from the other side of the kiddy zone at Chavannes that goes down through the trees and comes out near the lake has now been marked, as Bleuet.
It seems a number of useful shortcuts and diversions have been hijacked by officialdom and made, er... official.
I wonder if my regular travel insurance will now cover me to ski in the area you describe in 2 (I believe the peak is called Angolon) as it's now on the map... Have to read the fine print, I think.
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After all it is free
After all it is free
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andyph, a good point re insurance - I wonder if the pisteurs will actually patrol it? Will there be US style open/closed gates? We await with breath baited. Or bated. Whichever.
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All I'm saying is that if anyone wants to spend an afternoon wondering how to get out of an housing estate then FOLLOW ME!
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| FlyingStantoni wrote: |
| All I'm saying is that if anyone wants to spend an afternoon wondering how to get out of an housing estate then FOLLOW ME! |
It's crap, don't go there...
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