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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Currently on Bootcamp, chalet is damn fine, food is awesome, snow good today but GODAMN it's cold. If you're coming out bring some extra layers, and about 15 pairs of goggles. Running through the snow cannons (on the double M, a very nice, mostly very snowy 2 mile piste) means you now have half an inch of ice on your goggles.
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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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Chart indicates reasonable chance of precipitation and minus temps in the couple of days before I get there next week and hopefully not much while I'm there - I'd rather have vis and hope the winds are down 
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just got back to luton airport from the bootcamp and it was MENTAL!!!! Friday was absolutely crazy powder...off piste from behind the fenicular down to double m was knee deep pow and was wicked. met some cool people and got absolutely hammered. big dent in my wallet now but well worth it, just a shame it wasn't a few days longer.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Looks like heap big dump on Thu. Fingers crossed for the worst being over by Fri and it at least being clearish on the weekend... 
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slikedges, the latest GFS run has Saturday as a clear day. Are you travelling to Tignes that day?
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| slikedges wrote: |
| Looks like heap big dump on Thu. |
60cm+ 
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rob@rar, yep, looks poss for clear from Fri lunchtime but the lines haven't coalesced yet. I'm travelling Thu pm, so ski Fri/Sat/Sun. You're not out around then are you?
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I'm too lazy to look at GFS runs, but will be out there from thurs evening this week, can't wait....
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| slikedges wrote: |
| rob@rar, yep, looks poss for clear from Fri lunchtime but the lines haven't coalesced yet. I'm travelling Thu pm, so ski Fri/Sat/Sun. You're not out around then are you? |
No, sadly not. I'm in Val d'Isere for the first week of December but I guess we'll miss each other?
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The forecast on the radio this evening was for maybe a few flakes of snow tonight but with a warm Lombard wind moving in from tomorrow, so it may not snow all the way down to the resort.
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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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rob@rar, sadly yes, only doing the weekend, and dec only weekend in hintertux, but the season is long... 
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You know it makes sense.
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Just back from Tignes - 30cm of snow in Le Lac and Val Claret - a winter wonderland!
Awful cold on Fri and Sat (16/17 Nov) minus 16C on the glacier - bit of a shock to the system! Warmed up by yesterday to -2C in Val Claret.
Great snow on the runs that are open - from top of glacier to Val Claret. Very busy people wise on Saturday (but only 5 min queues for draglifts) . Open runs relatively quiet as quite a bit of the mountain was cordoned off for racer and ski club training.
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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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motatapu, see you there!!! ps I assume you're not on the transfer bus?
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Poster: A snowHead
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slikedges, no, I'm heading out under my own steam. Can't wait!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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runs very icy at the top of the glacier,especially the red.was very cold and quite windy when riding the chairs.but double m red was very good,but more snow needed on most runs. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Looks like rain at resort level next 2 days but snow just above that (maybe 40-50cm?) then no precipitation for a while...
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slikedges, The printed forecast at the Funiculaire says much the same, but doesn't give a prediction for how much snow may fall.
Everything is closed today.
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Is it raining there now rjs???
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kitenski, It is snowing slightly but not sticking.
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| rjs wrote: |
| kitenski, It is snowing slightly but not sticking. |
That's better than expected!!
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kitenski, It was raining earlier this morning, but when I posted there were a few flakes blowing around outside.
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stewart woodward, I live in Manchester, I know rain when I see it. It was raining at 9am.
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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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rjs, 
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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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| slikedges wrote: |
| ... losing a day to the elements is par for the course on a glacier, isn't it? T |
I think so, although I've been fairly lucky. In the four weeks I've spent on the glacier in the autumn I've only lost one day entirely and one day when only one of the drags was open (both occasions due to high wind).
GFS is still reporting 50cm+ for Tignes, although this has been delayed into Thursday night/Friday compared to the forecasts earlier in the week.
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Poster: A snowHead
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rob@rar, same here - I've lost a couple of days down to wind - I'm told the lower slopes into Val Claret should be open though
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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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Kaiser, not mine of course but someone else's 
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By the looks of the Val Claret webcam the lower slopes look like they are losing their cover fast  lets hope its just a temporary glitch and the colder weather forecast brings some more snow to resort
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Rosolin and Champagny were open today though not many people were on Champagny. It snowed all day and was fairly windy, but visibility was good enough.
The snow is good on the glacier as stewart woodward wrote.
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Apparently it's just stated to snow at resort level.
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Has it been snowing a fair amount today then?
Forecast says it should be? And get a good 8-10cm overnight?
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Spikyhedgehog, the webcams around the Tarentaise I looked at earlier seemed to show rain, certainly at resort level. But it's difficult to tell. I just got an email from someone in resort who said that it had started to snow.
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