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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, When is opening day?
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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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wahey she's back, can't wait for the usual excellent pics to help us poor sods in the UK through summer 
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God yeh - thank goodness someone can keep us sane!!!!! 
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Well it's been raining again in the village overnight. It would seem as though it should be snow on the glacier, although maybe not all the way down to the bottom of Signal. Here's the pic from the glacier webcam this morning which is now online again. Looks like fresh snow to me!
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this pic looks good too
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brian
brian
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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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Late starter, You'll love it, just a shame you're not crossing over with Annie and Jnr Annie.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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easiski, will the glacier be open in mid September?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Richard E, No - we close on 2nd September this year. Sorry. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pouring with rain today - hope it's snowing higher up!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just got back from the west of France and I can see that it has snowed above 2500 meters but it is quite hot today so a wet powder day tomorrow!
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easiski,
keep it coming. 1 month to go and then snow again.
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easiski...keep us posted hitting the glacier last wk June
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brian
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easiski, looking forward to them already. A bit sad we're not coming out this summer, the kids are already threatening mutiny !
Might be a twin centre job next year. 
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brian
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easiski, thanks. Yes, a bit far for a day. Would be 4 hours plus I think.
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easiski, there must be huge snow at the top. It has rained nearly every day for the last 10 days.
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You know it makes sense.
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Please note Pix are right to left
So off I went on a nice morning, but apparently with a bit of a breeze up top. It wasn't very warm to be sure. First a photo of the bike park, so all the mountain bikers on snowheads
Next we see that the Grand Couloir is (almost) still skiable - although it would take a pretty adventurous person to attempt it.
Following this we have a view of the "snowheads corner powder stash" (actually called Grand Nord Bis. Still some pow there. this is just below 2,600m.
Having then arrived at 2,600 I took a picture of the Toura - still clearly skiable if anyone wanted to skin up it - it would hold nice tracks.
A little bit higher we can see 3 big couloirs. L - R is "Arnos Descent", Grand Creux and then Lac Noir. Only Arnos is not a piste - maybe next time I'm up?
One more photo and then my batteries packed up - bah!  Sorry about that - got too carried away on the way up. This is of tracks on the Dome side of the glacier.
I skied up on the Puy Salie to the right in the fresh snow, but it was only a little bit and the snow underneath was very hard and lumpy. It was slightly windblown crusty over towards the Snowheads Wall, so I just skied down at the side. I went up again and skied down the Dome side and then the red part of the Dome which was an interesting mix of hard spring-like snow and windblown stuff. then I took to the bottom of the Echines and found much of the same. The snow got softer down towards the bottom of Signal, and was much nicer. Up Signal after a nice chat with English Derby heroine Heather (Brian she's sorry she won't be seeing you this summer and sends her regards). I then skied down the Envers du Signal (the really ridiculously steep red off the back of the Signal chair), Serre Palas, Breche to the little gully at the top of the last part of the Breche. The main slope wasn't skiable but I was expecting to find a good stash in the gully - WRONG!  Anyway I had to sideslip a bit, but then it was possible to ski and over to the Goulet du Lac Noir. Another sideslip and then a traverse onto the bottom of the boardercross track and so as far as the red cross hut by the Toura lift. A short walk up to 2,600 and home. The snow on the descent to 2,600 was very nice indeed, and I got back there are 12.00.
I probably won't have time to go up again until I work on Weds (didn't really have time today!), but winter snow in the middle of June is not half bad. The only even vaguely slushy stuff was right at the bottom of Signal. A bit soft at the bottom of Toura, but other wise excellent!
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I forgot to include the pic of the rebuilding of the burnt down Toura restaurant. Here it is.
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easiski, there realy was nothing left ! wow. I hope it is built back to a similar style & quality of pizza !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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lampbus, They appear to be building it in concrete this time. I expext they'll clad it though to make it look "mountainy".
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Sounding very encouraging so far, tho some of that is just a bit out of my league just yet 
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It was a nice day today, as the photo shows. However it was very warm, although extremely windy, so on top of the glacier it felt a lot colder.
We had a good time though, but the snow was getting pretty slushy by 12.45. Colder weather is forecast, so that should improve things. On the whole it's not bad though - but my tracks from Sat have been rained away. If you compare the 2nd pic with the one from Sat, you can see how much snow has disappeared in the last 4 days. Still plenty left though.
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my son went today, he left here at 7.30 to discover on arrival that it was closed so he's now back in bed!
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I'm heading there next month, is the VFD bus from grenoble running?
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SiMania, yes - how are you getting to Grenoble? Buses should be on holiday time then so a bit more frequent than currently.
snowangel., You beat me to it - glacier closed all day due to 90kph winds! Yes - you read that right!
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FAQ
. Not quite counting the days (bit short of fingers n toes with over a month to go) till we are back in LDA but certainly hoping to have a great new experience in summer skiing 
