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Just had a fab day in Les Gets - this morning there were parts with champagne powder and this afternoon hard packed pistes - what more could a girl want!
GET OUT HERE NOW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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snowandtrek, a girl could want nothing more! SOOOOOOOO envious, only five and a bit weeks til we come, been watching the webcam all day  Just racking my poor little brain to choose a restaurant for New Years eve as we have family coming with us this time.....
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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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Just a quick report back from my day's skiing over at Champery. BRILLIANT!!!!! Clear blue skies, lots of lovely powder, hardly anyone about, and rosti for lunch. Does it get any better?
Also according to the ski club website, once again we have got a pretty good start here compared to some of the big gun areas in France:
Tignes (30/40cm)
Val Thorens (30/70cm)
Alpe d’Huez (30/45cm)
Whereas Chatel has 40/85cm!
Happy days....
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Bit of a contrast from the past couple of years: Champéry at the end of January has struggled. Good work on PhotoTim's part for going to Fernie for the season then 
Will be watching what happens in the PdS with interest...
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Well, looks like PdS might be getting a bit of rain this week, so let's keep an eye on the snow-line. If we can make it through to thursday/friday, i think we'll be in the clear. Fingers crossed. If the worst comes to the worst, we had snow yesterday in London, so i'll just bring some of that over in me hand-luggage. 
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ice_pie, any information on the snow/rain line level. We are hoping to get out either 1st or 8th December for a long weekend. Please keep us informed!
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Amongst my "chores" on Saturday I managed to get in a couple of hours on the snow. Frankly. Blooming marvelous.
I didn't get out until 14:00, so missed any powder (ok, so I wasn't prepared to hike...), but the runs were holding up well - loose snow over a firm base above around 1500m and firm, icy piste below 1500m. It was pretty crowded - and a tad scary at times (and that was just my skiing!) - but still "pas mal" as the rather hard-to-please French bloke I spoke to on the second chairlift emoted. "Just don't tell your English friends..." he added. So. Our secret...
Avoriaz is going to be superb when it opens I reckon.
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PhillipStanton, Do you know when Avoriaz will be open during the week? Is it just that it is open weekends at the moment?
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| Roy Hockley wrote: |
| PhillipStanton, Do you know when Avoriaz will be open during the week? Is it just that it is open weekends at the moment? |
No idea, sorry. I'm back in (rainy) London. One of the locals will hopefully be able to answer.
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Roy Hockley, This weekend and then non-stop - is what I've heard. As soon as I have it in writing I will post!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hiya guys...... Don't we need to make this topic STICKY? PhillipStanton, can you help?! Cheers, the last thing we want is to lose all this valuable information
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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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Wheres all the snow gone 
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ok I guess it's not even December yet, but Mont Chery was looking so nice and white before. . . . 
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You know it makes sense.
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Don't panic - temp and snowline due to drop over the weekend. Plenty of time yet!
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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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davejsy, it was nice and white and I can confirm the snow was very tasty.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hey, Snowmonkey! Good to see you back here. How's the nipper?
zzz - stop tauntin
Leedslips - as if I've got any, well, anything...
...as long as we post, the topic stays alive...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| PhillipStanton wrote: |
...as long as we post, the topic stays alive... |
This thread is the 7th most viewed topic on Snowheads.
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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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zzz, did you make the airport on time?
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PhillipStanton, sorry, can't help myself.
David Murdoch, I did thanks, despite your short(?) cut 
What a difference a week makes. Last week skiing powder under sunny skies in Les Gets. This week skiing a combination of ice and porridge in a white out in Avoriaz. Still, I won't complain. The pistes were surprisingly ok in Avoriaz, a little firm on the Arare and Haut Forts area but quite soft on the junior downhill in Linderets. These are the only two pistes open at the mo. Pretty good cover for the time of year. The off piste, unskiable.
a bientot
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I looked at the web cams earlier zzz and the conditions looked pretty miserable. So I'm not quite as jealous as I otherwise might be...
...I remain, of course, jealous
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| PhillipStanton wrote: |
I looked at the web cams earlier zzz and the conditions looked pretty miserable. So I'm not quite as jealous as I otherwise might be...
...I remain, of course, jealous |
But not quite as jealous as me
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davejsy, it was nice and white and I can confirm the snow was very tasty. 
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zzz, PhillipStanton, Sorry guys but had a cracking morning in the sunshine - hard packed empty pistes..........see you out there next Sunday maybe as I am back to blighty to visti the parents this week. Mr Snow and Trek will be looking for some ski mates this week!
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snowandtrek - inside I'm crying
Not out again until ski test weekend - although I'm in Tignes next weekend on the Atomic boot camp thingamejig...
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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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| waterskibabe wrote: |
What a hard life you guys have!!
Think of the "normal people" stuck behind some desk... |
waterskibabe - I am a "normal people" though * - I work in London; I do my hour on the tube each way every day like a trooper; I'm stuck behind a desk most of the day and I spend far too much money in Pret.
I just happen to be absolutely ruthless about how I book my leave and booking flights early to make it affordable.
snowandtrek is normal too. Well, nearly. I'm a bit suspicious about zzz though.
* E&OE
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PhillipStanton, yeah, and have you seen his ski boots? Very fishy.
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You know it makes sense.
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| David Murdoch wrote: |
| PhillipStanton, yeah, and have you seen his ski boots? Very fishy. |
He wears ski boots? I've only ever seen him ski in high heels...
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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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David Murdoch, PhillipStanton, sorry chaps, havn't the time to rise to the bait, too busy skiing.  . Finding it a bit difficult though in these stilletos!
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Poster: A snowHead
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zzz, hmmm, tru randonee boots. Not nearly so hard work on your ankles. Anyway, aren't your feet considerably bigger than your wife's? She'll be far from delighted to find her fave high heels stretched out of all proportion by your size 9s.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Murdoch,
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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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Cross link to the wiki thread - just in case anyone misses it...
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Just back from a couple of hours charging around empty pistes in Avoriaz. The only bits open are the Arare and Bleu du lac area where the base is holding up well although rather hard at the mo, and the blue(sorry don't know the name) in Linderets. The snow on this piste is a little softer due, I think, to it's slightly lower height and sunnier aspect. It looked as if they have pisted the Chavanette area as well so this may open soon. If anyone's looking for a cheeky weekend skiing then they could do worse than come here; actually with second thoughts, it's crap go somewhere else.
Rather worryingly though, it seems Avoriaz have finished snowmaking for the mo because their resevoir is dry!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| zzz wrote: |
| Rather worryingly though, it seems Avoriaz have finished snowmaking for the mo because their resevoir is dry! |
If this is true, it's more than "Rather worrying", surely?
I don't know the details of Avoriaz's water storage, but it must amount to several (hundred?) thousand litres. I assume the reservoirs fill with snow melt & summer rain- so is last season + a dry summer and autumn to blame?
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Hmmm... Didn't seem like a dry summer to me! From where i was sheltered in Les Rhodos it seemed like it pissed it down pretty much every day! So i wouldn't have thought that was the reason. zzz, Is the "dry reservoir hypothesis" gospel or gossip? Will be seeing you all in... 50.5 hours!
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ice_pie, It did p i s s down until August and since then we've had very little rain. The Dranse has been a gentle stream for the last couple of months and the large resevoir in Avoriaz is so dry it has a digger parked in the middle of it!! I heard the story from a mate of mine who is an ESF instructor in Avoriaz so fairly sound I think. Anyway I hope it won't matter as we've some more snow on the way.
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zzz, snow? in Morzine? Isn't Morzine too low for snow...?
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Talking of Webcams is it not time Morzine got some decent webcams? Phil you're King of Morzine can you pass a decree?
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