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Let's get this party started! Last call for season passes at reduced rate of €569 tomorrow 4th October.
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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?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Looks like some decent snowfall in ADH, enough for them to announce an early ski for those lucky enough to be out there next weekend. A chance to spin the lifts & check everythings working before the official season opener I guess 
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@Nick D, Ooh what's that all about? I'll be over this week but L2A doesn't open until 5th. I feel a drive over coming on 
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@Claude B dunno, imagine it'll just be the higher stuff above Poutran open, might be worth a drive over, not sure if your season pass will work yet as official opening 5th/6th
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I'll see if anyone else is up for it if it's covered by the season pass or priced well 
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@howiet, Great pics, a good start & some more to come later in the week hopefully
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Snowing down in Bourg so all good for resort hopefully!
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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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@Claude B, looked pretty damn good today judging by the pics on FB. Cover probably a little thin here and there, look forward to your report & pics, have fun!
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You know it makes sense.
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any updates from AdH ? Thanks guys
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Timberwolf, Not the best news I am afraid but I assume you were not expecting that. There is some snow here, mostly man made lower down and it is still possible to loop round the chailift on the glacier, bizarrely the Sarenne has been open since I got here Saturday but again that is because of the new snow cannons, and the bottom end of the run is in darkness most of the day. Not too bad a run though, went down yesterday and today. There looks to be pretty well nothing on the Auris hill although they may have some artiicial in the village. There are only really the main "motorways" open in the central bowl of Alpe d'Huez but it is possible to ski down from the 2nd troncon to the middle station on the Vaujany cable car, then go back up to the Dome. You can ski right down from the 2nd marmottes or cross over to the Troncon side. The signal area above the town is pretty much grass, although the chairlift is open and you can ski the blue? round the back. Villard Reculas is fenced off. Sorry I am very poor on piste names. At the moment there are very few people here but if it goes up to anyway near the usual numbers at the end of this week the snow is going to take a hammering I am afraid. No snow forecast for the next 7 days and some sunny ones, so good for the tan but not so for the skiing. As far as I can see the resort has done everything possible to make the best of the situation to be fair.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry, just in case you have ome total beginners, the Rifnel beginners area by the ESF kids chalet thing is OK and both little drag lifts and the telemixte were working.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@skitow, many thanks. Friends of mine have just been bumped from Serre Chevalier to AdH by their TO. Arriving Boxing Day.
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@Timberwolf, Like I said, they will get some skiing. As I understand there is almost none in Serre Chevalier ? Are they beginners / experienced ? If a lot of "locals" stay away, like they have this week from what I gather, then it may be OK. A lot of the apartments here are owned by people from Grenoble / Lyon and they may just do the New Year weekend and go home.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@skitow, thanks for the update - we arrive on 3rd Jan so a couple of weeks yet. Am hoping for snowmaggedeon like there was between Christmas and New Year a couple of years ago (or was it last year, can't remember now) and a barren Christmas turned into an OK just after new year week.
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Skiing been better than last Xmas but rain this afternoon may well have changed the game....
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@skitow, We arrived yesterday, not skied yet, will give you a buzz.
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@Nick D, OK, supposed to be sunny next 2 days. Only here until Saturday morning.
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Came into this thread to see what's happening in ADH.
Here in Serre been pretty good if you like family piste cruising as there's enough open and it's all in good condition.
Did bump into some Brit "dudes" on a UCPA Off Piste course and they were enjoying their riding, though obviously no off piste!
Friends I was showing around yesterday had a great ski, so they said.
And the best bit no queues and no rain 
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@Weathercam, sounds better there than here. It's pretty limited really, nothing much open below 2000m but some decent (if a bit stony) snow at 2800. The best skiing is busy and some big icy patches are catching lots out on the narrow pistes. They've done a good job keeping anything open really, temperature inversion still prevalent and concern among pisteurs as to how things may hold up next week if/when the post Christmas crowds arrive. Writing this sitting in the sun on our balcony in Oz, 12 degrees at 1350m, luckily we have a plentiful supply of Adnams & salty snacks to see us through this difficult time
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Had a beer last night with a mate who's director of the ESF in Oz, he suggested getting our skiing in this week and doing something else next week  . They're re-opening the 'Go Ape' style forest climbing in the next few days, may as well get the nets back up on the tennis courts while they're at it.
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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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Well it appears that the expected post-Christmas influx of visitors has occurred today but interestingly the hire shops are unusually quiet, maybe some just won't bother to ski. More of the same on the slopes today, some decent if occasionally stony snow to be had and more pistes closing as the sunshine & skiers expose more of what's normally covered until May/June. Seems like some snow making has been happening but it certainly wasn't cold walking through the Station at midnight last night. Feel sorry for anyone arriving for their only week of the season but more so for the locals whose businesses and livelihoods are taking a big hit (friends of ours have an on piste restaurant which has been inaccessible so far this winter).
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Nothing new to report from AdH really as the wait for snow continues with no sign of a change so far today despite a small amount of precipitation in the forecast. The extremely limited skiing now has the added fun of avoiding some ridiculously long queues along with the rocks and ice, the small drag up from the Poutran halfway station where the snow currently ends had a massive queue yesterday afternoon with some giving up and walking up the piste alongside the Perce Neige.
A friends cousin fell on ice and dislocated his shoulder yesterday, just bad luck and easily done but there's also plenty of downright reckless skiing going on so it made a nice change to skin up what's left of the home run into Oz, long since inaccessible from above due to large bare patches on the Alpette & Poutran pistes. The view over Oz & Vaujany was almost totally snowless with a little clinging to the upper slopes of the Belledone opposite.
The Sarenne remains 'open' for those who can stomach the queues to get up there and the slushy, rocky moguls on the way down. On piste, skiing between 11 & 2 seems the best bet to avoid the crowds, then home for essential ski maintenance in the sunshine during the afternoon.
We've decided to return to the UK on New Year's Day to hopefully avoid the weekend traffic, had planned to be back mid-January, fingers crossed for a change in the weather by then!
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You know it makes sense.
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Hi @Nick D,
Sounds pretty bad to say the least. Thankfully, we decided not to go down over Christmas and New Year this year. It looks like there's a fair bit of snow on the way for the 31st December, so hopefully the drive down will be OK, but not too OK if you get my drift .
I'll be down normally on the 14th Jan for the annual boys weekend. Are you planning to be there then?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Bjorn_again_Daehlie, You haven't missed much skiing wise. Boys week planned for 23rd, subject to conditions, Greg at La Potee has definitely benefitted from the poor skiing! We've h a few good nights in there. Cloud rolling in now and temperature dropping slightly to 8 degrees down here in Oz. Just got back from a little ski over to Montfrais for coffee then up to 2800 where there's some decent snow off the back but below DMC2 via Couloir is awful as it's now the only way down to AdH or Rousses, lots of people and very thin snow.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Clouds rolling in this morning, will have to see what they bring, feels a bit odd after 2 weeks of wall to wall sunshine.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Cheers for the updates @Nick D, how are things now? Some much-needed snowfall it sounds like?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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What is the snow like in ADH currently? Has there been a reasonable amount of snowfall?
The forecasts were for heavy snowfall in recent days and for continued snowfall going forward. But the snow reports on ADHnet don't seem to corroborate this so would be useful to have the comments of someone on the ground! Cheers
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My wife is skiing this morning and I'm up with the kids after school so I will let you know later.
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It started snowing after lunch and was continuing when we left about 4.30pm. The snow level was between bends 14/15(around 1020m).
They had the snow cannons on also. Some of the lower slopes were icy in places but I'm sure once the base builds up they will be fine. My wife did the Sarenne and she said it was great.
Good news that the snow is falling and hopefully for a few more big dumps in the coming week. The run down to Huez was still closed.
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| howiet wrote: |
It started snowing after lunch and was continuing when we left about 4.30pm. The snow level was between bends 14/15(around 1020m).
They had the snow cannons on also. Some of the lower slopes were icy in places but I'm sure once the base builds up they will be fine. My wife did the Sarenne and she said it was great.
Good news that the snow is falling and hopefully for a few more big dumps in the coming week. The run down to Huez was still closed.
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Was there any sign of them opening up more runs?
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I didn't notice as I was mostly on the lower slopes.
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Still not that much open according to friends out there, I'm back in a couple of weeks, looking like it should be rather improved by then!
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| Nick D wrote: |
| Still not that much open according to friends out there, I'm back in a couple of weeks, looking like it should be rather improved by then! |
Hmm, I'm there sooner than that. I was hoping this snow would lead to things opening up quite quickly, but I guess I was over optimistic.
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Hi @sugarmoma666, when are you there?
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