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Currently difficult to access Val d'Isere / Tignes due to snow (chains mandatory)
Compulsory chaining for Valfrejus as well - all vehicles apparently, new rules since the last snowmageddon.
Problems on the Chambery Lyon autoroute and same for Grenoble Lyon... snow ploughs are working non stop to keep the cols clear. Down to one snow covered lane in places.
Maurienne valley is slow going but passable. Problem with a jack knifed lorry.
Slow out of Geneva where it climbs and descends to Bourg en Bresse
Lac road out of Albertville is slow
Jams on the Chamonix road at St Gervais in both directions
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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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Everything looks closed on the hill at the moment. Avalanche risk or high winds?
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Everything looks closed on the hill at the moment. Avalanche risk or high winds? |
Avalanche control started at 7am in Val d'Isere and the mountain was closed to skiers (uphill kind).
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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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Hammering it down in Innsbruck. Some flight delays. The incoming plane for our flight home circled for a while then went to Munich.
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Friends got to Lyon from here OK early this morning although it was slow going. Stopped snowing here atm. Lots of blasting this morning and looks as if things are pretty slow opening.
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Great to watch this thread from the comfort of my indoor cycle trainer.
More from a point of view 'thank god i'm not there ' than any schadenfreude.
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Waiting in Lech for transfer to INN for the Thompson flight back to STN. Hopefully
Lots of snow here at least a foot in the last 12 hrs
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Got back from 10 Days in Tahoe last week and the day we left it dropped 2-3 feet on the I80 (main road form Tahoe to San Fran) we had a 2 W drive from the rental as they had run out of 4 W drives so snow chains on at the Truckee
I80 junction and then a 2hr drive at 25 MPG max until we could remove them. Interesting drive nearly white out conditions on the passes and could not see the lane markings for snow, still they are all geared up for this so all safe.
Good luck to all those travelling today hope the journey goes well 
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On the bus leaving Moutieres for Val d'Isère st the moment. Will let you know if I get there
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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In the south Isere, doesn't look too bad
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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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Up early to clear snow off van, down to Briancon to meet up with CAF for ski tour, what should have been a 12min drive was double with cars with chains both ways.
Then drive up to the Col du Lautaret and compulsory for cars without snow tyres to have chains, but as ever most drive by the designated laybys thinking they'll be ok only to have to pull up a km up the road to put their chains on 
Lots of lovely straights and open bends so easy to get past them all both before and after ski tour, and just loving my 4x4 van, along with the Frenchie I was giving a lift to who is a driver for the hospital!
No sign of any carnage* though we have not had the snow volumes but there again up at the Col (should have taken a picture) drifts in places are 3m high!
*Though only takes one incident
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Just driven Les Arcs to Geneva, leaving Les Arcs at 11am. Easy journey. Winter tyres or chains were useful, maybe essential for the first few miles, but from 1200m roads clear and quiet.
Apologies my take is not more exciting.
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You know it makes sense.
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Our first ever attempt at driving to the alps was more... exciting than expected. St. Albans to Jungfrau. Very glad I bought snow socks for the car. Wasn't too bad once I'd got those fitted; we needed them from interlaken to Lauterbrunnen. I can imagine how bad it could be on a busier week of the year.
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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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@Weathercam, we are driving from Puy-St-Vincent to Turin very early tomorrow morning. Any idea what condition the road up to Montgenèvre is in? Stopped snowing here yesterday and the roads locally look alright
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Poster: A snowHead
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Road from Wörgl to Niederau closed again this morning, mainly Dutch cars with winter tyres but no chains all over the road. Third time this week they have had to close it to cars with no chains. I was even struggling getting to the apartment with spiked tyres but that was on an unploughed road with 25 cm of new snow.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Sideshowbob, you should be fine probably will not need chains at all
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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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Seems to be the hire cars having a problem this afternoon, just had to show someone how to put their chains on, am I wrong in thinking that hire cars don't always have winter tyres?
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@Swissie, Not in France, but Swiss ones do by law.
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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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We have friends who arrived this afternoon, just from St Jean d'Aulps to Les Gets, in a hire car from Swiss side GVA, with winter tyres but they had to put the chains on and off a couple of times. But nothing serious.
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Now have grid lock on the main road in the valley down from me, nothing to do with the weather, but crowds flocking to the Andros Trophy Motor racing event which is on this weekend and main races are held in the evening.
Gits are now parking up in all the "residences" and walking up from here
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Aborted landing at Chambery with Crystal diverted to Lyon, sat on tarmac for 2.5 hours before returning to Chambery.
3.5 hour transfer to St Martin due to snow and sitting stationery for an hour outside Moutier due to an accident on the Val Thorens Road.
Now tucked up in the very nice Alpe hotel in an upgraded room so all is good!
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Marjon, I'm off to St martin my in 2 weeks. Very interested to see how your trip goes!
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@rob.m, will be posting some updates, can message more detail when get back. There certainly appears to be plenty of snow at the moment 
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Freezing rain causing some problems in Italy.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Arrived in Samoens around 3pm No problems at all. A fair few French cars chaining up but easy enough with winter tyres.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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I flew into Chambery late this afternoon and my journey up the hill would have been straightforward had I not left the lights on my car which had been at the airport for a week...flat battery. I have jump leads but helpful young French guy and I failed to start the car. Battery very flat and it was very cold. Breakdown truck with socking great leads and more oomph did the truck, thanks to Nationwide breakdown cover (free with Flex account). Drive up was straightforward though I passed some cars chaining up in the middle if the road and one, who might have been well advised to do the same, in the ditch. My snow tyres plus conservative driving got me home under clear skies with excellent visibility. I even overtook a couple if unusually slow French drivers. Lovely to see the snow - thought Snowmageddon it isn't.
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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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Good job it wasn't French school holidays eh @pam w,...?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@mikeycharlton, yes, it was a quiet changeover day. And the snow stopped - where I was at any rate. Nothing like as heavy as Snowmageddon Saturday. I was relieved not to have to fit chains as it was very cold and I had a decent coat on, which I'd have had to take off!
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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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Home safe from Innsbruck but the airport was manic and a few flights diverted to MUC - not mine thank God
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Bit snowy here in MUC...
Ok, roads are covered in snow, but my rwd BMW only spun a twice on my way to the chinese takeaway. Nothing to get excited about.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| red 27 wrote: |
| Home safe from Innsbruck but the airport was manic and a few flights diverted to MUC - not mine thank God |
You were lucky. We had a six hour delay. Worse for the folk on the incoming flight as they were on the plane for 9 hours!
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Driving around in Tahoe with Snow tyres on the Dodge SUV not a problem they do work well but had to chain up though as explained in early post when I hit the I80 but I like the snow tyres they do work well in the white stuff
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We are in Val Thorens at the moment (& it's just stopped snowing, after 25 hours...) & today witnessed a Renault hatchback (with snow chains fitted) inching its way through the town, struggling to get any traction as the front wheels spun rapidly. It may have been something to do with the fact that the snow chains were fitted to the rear wheels...
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Monsieur Bean or what!!
No problems driving down from Gressoney to the main Aosta motorway yesterday, then onward to Verona Airport this morning. All roads clear.
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