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Wear The Fox Hat, still working with the wifi?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wear The Fox Hat, Le Tour is one thing - the Etap is entirely another. All the same inconvenience (worse) but no TV promotion, no benefit to us at all if peeps are not actually staying here.
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looks like we're gonna come on friday, esp as no1 sone was injured yesterday and had to be stretchered off the mountain! now i'm really looking forward to it. pming you now charlotte!
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well we went on the 14th.
Now i have to be totally honest with you, i was very very shocked as to just how bad the glacier was. It was never that bad this time last year ( i always seem to go for bastile day for some reason!!!)
However it is very much ridable and the freestyle skiers were totally amazing, they made even the best pro snowboarders look crap!
I got some awesome pics which i'm going to try and upload now
many thanks to charlotte for putting up with my daughter and her tantrums!
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snowangel., Glad you got the pix uploaded - amazing stuff. I hope Lyon was good, and it was nice to meet you (Winter is sweet)!
Most of us who do every summer think the condition is normal for this time of year in terms of what's open etc. The bottom of the glacier has no snow on it now, but that's largely because all the lovely winter snow blew off that bit! 
I'll try to take some more pix this week to show you, but the webcam is pretty OK at the moment.
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easiski, so you get on the lift where the crowd of peeps is ?
Is the brown at the bottom just rock/gravel or a trick-of-the light 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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PS, thanks for the photos ! I realy want to be there & not here.
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easiski, You've done me, i'll be there next friday, my round. 
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You know it makes sense.
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brian
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It's taken me a few days to get pics sorted but we had a fantastic time out in L2A last week. More great tuition from easiski, the boys have really come on leaps and bounds and I got to do lots of bizarre exercises on 1 leg !
Snow cover on the glacier was better than last year with the exception (as mentioned above) of the last 100 yards of Puy Salié where you're actually skiing on the glacier ice, across streams etc. We got to ski Dome, Signal and the s wall though, so it was great fun.
Anyway, here's a gratuitous lump of pics, others available in snowMedia
Euan and Le Mur des Tetes de la Neige !
Charlotte and Euan on Signal, Mont Blanc in the distance.
Main runs down to the restaurant, you can see the park (awesome) at the top right
Douglas (age 5) easiskiing his first blue run !
Later in the week and he's off the poles doing it solo 
Looking down the wall, the snow was getting a bit lumpy but still nice to ski
Awesome mountains, this is the Barre des Ecrins, over 4000m
The view across to L'Alpe d'Huez
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Poster: A snowHead
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brian
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Wear The Fox Hat, that's Euan, not Ewan, do keep up ! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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brian, Actually - I made a spelling mistake, and Ewan is actually Euan too! Great pix.
Another nice day. A very good re-freeze last night so it was pretty hard early on - love that summer hard snow! It was cool early with a bit of wind, but then got pretty warm by 11.45. Snow was soggy by then too. I'm off up very early tomorrow - got 2 whole lessons - wow!!!
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easiski, i'm not going to tell liam that but i'm glad it did as everyone i\ve seen this week is not at all impressed with it up there (park wise, we dont bother with the rest)
he was airlifted to grenoble hospital last tuesday with a snapped high bone.
he got 2.5 m out of the pipe and landed it but caught his nose in the super slush and it through him into the other wall.\
as to what i was talking about with the glacier looking so bad. its not just the bottom, half of the park was just ice and black, and even the top where you come out was black.
personally i think the glacier shouldn't be being used as much as it is, or they need to invest in it.
either way 10 years and its a gonna unless they do something now.
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he was airlifted to grenoble hospital last tuesday with a snapped high bone
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Ouch!!
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brian
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snowangel., Poor Liam, I do hope he'll be OK. Grenoble is a really good hospital for sorting out these sort of injuries! Please tell him to get well soon from me.
I agree that it's looking not too good at the moment. The 0deg isotherm hasn't been below 4,000m for ages now. Only 2 or 3 days this summer - it's now becoming worrying. Of course if they took all the snow that's being wasted on jumps and half pipes in the park, and put it on the pistes ..........
One of the pisteurs said today that he thought it would cool down in August and we should come back a bit, but as I said earlier I'm not holding my breath.
brian, Exactly - glaciers are not the pretty white sparkly things most people imagine - that's the snow on top of them! If you want to see, go to the bottom of the Alech Gletscher in VAllais (Wallis) in Switzerland - seriously unnatractive, but very interesting. I'm not actually sure about skiing on the glacier itself. It seems to me that it can't be doing it any good, however you can't just change your job and living with a click of the fingers!
snowangel., They are seriously considering just what you say at the moment. Regardless of how much is invested now, the summer skiing will end in max 20 years anyway. The DAL are looking into either a) investing in faster uplift, creating a lake to feed cannons, installing cannons etc or b) closing the summer skiing right at this moment! I hope they choose the former, but then I'm being selfish!
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easiski, no your not selfish, it would be amazing if they could find a way to make it good and stay alive.
i know that glaciers are black, i look at one every day!!!! the reason they are black is because they formed only 200 or 300 years ago when one of the big volcanoes erupted and plunged the alpes into darknes for 2 or 3 years.
this is why they are black!
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I think there was a major volcanic eruption in Indonesia, in the early 1800's (Tambora?) which caused glaciers to advance much lower than before, but I think they were already there.
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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.
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easiski, Hang on, some of us haven't finished with this year, impending arrival 6th August.
Or should we be looking a bit closer at those white-water rafting sites ?
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bladeskier, not as good at skiing, but the white-water rafting is great too!!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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snowangel,
I hope he get's better, I snapped my thigh bone one March in Verbier, I was skiing the next may in Scotland, so tell him to keep the faith, the bone heals itself stronger than before!!
this was my leg
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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gregh, OMG that looks super nasty!! at least his was a straight break
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Poster: A snowHead
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bladeskier, You're coming in time.
The shorter runs from 3,300m to 3,400m are all still in reasonable order, but very hard and icy first thing this morning. Good job the lad skiing with me is pretty good! The last bit coming down is horrid, but you can get straight on the lift as a result, whereas the intermediate get-on for the Puy Salié Sud has a huge queue. I just keep telling Peter that it's good practise skiing on rubbish snow (varies from sheet ice to boot high heavy slush in about 2 turns!)  Very hot - lovely day but ....
Seriously, it's OK but not good now, let's hope for some horrid winter weather, and we'll be laughing - it can happen - I've seen it.
gregh, Yuk.
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easiski, looks like next week should bring much cooler conditions, maybe even a bit of snow midweek. Fingers crossed
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brian, I'll cross everything then - thanks for the ray of hope. The one day we had (Friday) and the little spot of snow wasn't enough, and realistically we now need around 20-30cms to make a significant difference. Small amounts just melt the next day in the heat!
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brian
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easiski, freezing level should be below 3000m by end of Wednesday. Thursday is your best bet for snow, currently looks like 10-20cm possible but it's a still a long way out for a precipitation forecast.
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brian, sounds encouraging, fingers crossed.
Only problem is that I've told my kids we'll be skiing in T-shirts next Tuesday !
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cooler and cloudy today - much pleasanter really. Snow soft after 11.00 (when we went up), but the kids did well. Didn't bother with camera as too cloudy!
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