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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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Redcc, All snowheads more than welcome - I'm always up for a coffee just to say hi! 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| blizt wrote: |
| If you're having lessons with easiski I shouldn't worry about the snow conditions as she'll teach you anywhere........ |
I'm counting on it 
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Hey all, finally got round to registering!!! me and three friends are travelling out to L2A in mid march. cant wait!! what are the conditions usually like around that time of year??
My first post so a big hey to everyone!
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Hey, Thankyou for a big confidence boost!!
We were getting slightly worried with general lack of snow anywhere.
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aaronski, Les Deux Alpes seems to be the least affected by the snow shortage, you have chosen well.
Welcome to SnowHeads btw 
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The general opinion appear to be that Valentin is dangerous. If there is reasonable snow cover what is the easiest/safest run into the village apart from the awful green that traverses across.
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aaronski, Welcome! You should be fine in mid-March. We're OK now except that it's too hot! the thing about LDA is that the majority of our skiing is above 2,000m so we are less affected by a low snow problem. TBH it's not a shortage of precipitation this year, but warm temps so the low snow is falling as rain - bah! It's also been too warm off an on the use the snow cannons, so we're more natural than most years! 
It snowed last night - but rained at some point up to about 2,400m. Apparently it was really nice at Toura and above with very light powder first thing. I didn't get to try it myself!  However, int he early afternoon I took Simon mj66 and his mob down the top of Thuit in new snow and here's the photo:
it was pretty good as it's much steeper than it looks in the photo, 4 out of 5 had never skied in deep (well boot deep) snow before, and the same 4 had never skied on such a steep run! One of the boys is on his first skiing holiday, having only done placcy and indoors before.
Anyway it was much too hot this afternoon, and the low snow is positively running off the mountain . the Chemin des Demoiselles is likely to be closed tomorrow, or maybe the day after if they manage a miraculous repair job ... Cretes etc. of course is fine, and the blue part of the Combe du Thuit had a masive amount more cover that last week.
we'll see - so long as the thaw doesn't last too long we'll be OK - not so sure about the low resorts though. Remember - it's not the height of the village, but the height and orientation of the skiing that makes the diff.
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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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easiski,
Its blowing gales here so if that stays on course and on its way over it might get rid of the high temps..hope so.
Where are these high temps coming from anyway..? None round here..!!
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John Heaton
John Heaton
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You know it makes sense.
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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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easiski, so given that a lot of the good stuff at La Grave is above 1800/2000m and it's all north facing, it should be shaping up OK?
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Poster: A snowHead
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John Heaton,
Welcome to
Looks quite useful ... a 3 day forecast. I'd like to see those patterns further out in the Atlantic.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Managed to book a last minute deal to LDA going this saturday (13th Jan) - Anyone else going to be around then? What are the conditions like?
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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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In ADH at the moment. Snow slushy at 1800 and above gets better at 2300.
considering the helicopter ride to L2A do you think it's worth it?
Sorry if more than once on phone
Jon
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Nick-o, yes - certainly Firefly, Kramer, Colin B, Achilles, Aztec and various OHs + me!!!! for conditions I suggest you read the reports! 
JonO_1001, Might as well, but it's just as warm here. I would think it's pretty booked up though for this week.
It was ridiculously warm today, but a fair bit of wind and clouds around - deffo Mistral! Snow was slushy on the Cretes in the middle of the day. Valentin was nice at 11.00 and not hard at all, and the Combe du Thuit blue was in very good condition around 15.00 this afternoon. Unfortunately it's supposed to be even hotter tomorrow, and there are a lot of jokes about bikinis going around.
There's plenty of snow at higher altitudes that we can withstand another few days of serious thaw, but it's having a nasty effect low down. Of course it's too warm to run the cannons. the nursery slopes are still OK on the whole, and there's no immediate cause to panic.
Here's Jutta taking Matteo (27 mnths) for his first ski on the Viking. View of Grand Viking
and here's a satisfied group at the bottom of the blue part of the Thuit - pretty decent snow here
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John Heaton
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JT,
Thanks,
I've been around for a while getting to know how things work. Time to come out of my shell I think 
This http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html is a bit better for the past and present, but I too am looking for a good North Atlantic predictive view that shows the patterns develop across Canada / Greenland / Iceland
John
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Thanks easiski, might drop in on Friday!
JonO
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it was much colder last night, so the lower slopes were nasty and frozen this morning. I'm sure the upper slopes were fine though, and I skied Bellecombe around 10.30 in really nice snow and much better cover than last time I skied it - I didn't see even a hint of a rock. the same was true of the steeper blue at the Grand Nord, although it hadn't been pisted and at about 2,300m it was still pretty frozen before the sun got on it. Nursery slopes were starting to soften up at around 11.30. It's warmer now in the sun, but still quite fresh in the shade which is good, except for the hard snow. There's a chance that it may snow a little tonight - but doesn't look promising at the moment as it's wall to wall blue skies and sunshine! OTOH there were cirrus clouds around yesterday ..... sorry - I forgot to take any photos today.
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rayscoops, almost there - you need a forward slash in the last set of brackets like so:
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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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I just put the / in whilst the replies were coming but the picture is huge ! not sure about how to limit the pixels with [img=width,height] to make it smaller
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top banana
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You know it makes sense.
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rayscoops, Great photo, not bad for somewhere with no snow!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Can't wait! We're leaving tomorrow morning from gatwick. Before we go, has anyone got any advice as to wear to go for a good drink and night out? Also.. what are you favourite runs / off piste areas?
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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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| Nick-o wrote: |
| Can't wait! We're leaving tomorrow morning from gatwick. Before we go, has anyone got any advice as to wear to go for a good drink and night out? Also.. what are you favourite runs / off piste areas? |
I shall be in the Lutins on Sunday night buying easiski a beer, and grovelling to her for being disruptive.
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Thanks to all for the updates (esp easiski), Booked a month ago and have silently been lurking in this forum for the past month
My Gf, her mate and I are off to L2A tomorrow, staying at the chalethotel la meije.
Glad we booked a high resort, this is my first trip in europe having done a season in NZ and can't wait to do some decent length runs!
For those who'll be about L2A over the next week our group will be easy to spot, I'm the quiet fella with the two loud drunken aussie lasses! Feel free to say hello!!!!
Just don't bring up the cricket..........
MuZzA aka Poolprouk
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It was a truly beautiful day today, warm and sunny and like a lovely spring day. I was up on the glacier all day, and hope to be tomorrow as well. The snow was perfect and it wasn't very busy at all. Later I skied down with my student to the Cretes, and the only stones we found were in the places where they always are at the end of the day regardless of the amount of snow. It wasn't very slushy either. Here's a pic of Rachas which hasn't come out very well, but shows lots of tracks and baby avalanches. this is only about 2,500m max, so you can see that there's plenty, even for dedicated off pistees: 
Also a view of the glacier from the resto, looking at the big half pipe 
We went off piste a bit on what I call "Moonland" just off the Jandri run - lots of fun but breakable crust for the most part, and my poor student had never been off piste before, she really enjoyed it though  and finally, another beautiful sunset looking towards ADH which also appears to have a fair bit of snow! 
Happy skiing!
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easiski, thanks for the update.
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