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kapt, What time is your lesson? I've not ever had a lesson with New Gen, but I've seen people with them & they all look like they're having a good time 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kapt, What time are your lessons and are they group or private? The route is easy juts a fairly long way.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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thefatcontroller, great minds... 
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genepi, 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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is it group or private lesson - we are coming to arc 2000 for 1st time on 9th march and have 1 lesson booked with New gen to improve our mogul technique & potentially off piste - they are meeting us at top of Cabriolet lift in arc 2000 - so they do come out - might be worth asking
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genepi, thefatcontroller, 11.30 - group lessons (only us so far I believe) - if we had been able to afford private I think they would have come to us. Really appreciate your help. It's a little daunting having booked so far from our 'base' without knowing exactly how (if we could!) get there, so knowing that it is at least possible calms the nerves.
genepi, - a good time is exactly what we had in mind - that + improving our 'technique' - ie. - not falling over so often & trying to reduce the gap between the skis by a metre or so!
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kapt, It will be easy to get there by 11.30 - even time to fit a coffee in at The Rilax in Vallandry before your lesson When are you going?
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genepi, First lesson 12th march (hopefully) arrive day before. Have snowchains, but won't be surprised if it's sun all the way by then. Gather it's a touch cool just now? Are you out there?
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kapt, We've been there for the last 2 weeks - just home tonight - & will be there again for a couple of weeks from March 10th. Sadly I'm not skiing this year, following an accident there on Christmas day when I damaged my knee. Wave at post 9 on Bellette for me if you pass it  . And you're right, its been seriously cold & the best snow I've seen in the 10 years we've been going there. You'll have a lovely time.
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Wave at post 9 on Bellette for me if you pass it
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Out on 9th march if a couple of happy fools with snowheads stickers on helmets wipe out at post nine try not to laugh too loud. 
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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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migletski, Hi there - guess yours is private & sounds more advanced - moguls - oooer! All the best - have fun!
genepi,
Even more grateful for your input - impressed with your stamina! Sorry to learn of your knee - hope it is not long-term. It's something one always worries about (especially when not 20/30/40/50 any longer!!  ) Nothing to be embarrassed about - guess we all hope it won't be us - but sometimes it is!
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migletski, Hi there - guess yours is private & sounds more advanced - moguls - oooer! All the best - have fun!
genepi,
Even more grateful for your input - impressed with your stamina! Sorry to learn of your knee - hope it is not long-term. It's something one always worries about (especially when not 20/30/40/50 any longer!! ) Nothing to be embarrassed about - guess we all hope it won't be us - but sometimes it is!
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You know it makes sense.
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kapt, I agree with thefatcontroller, it is a very long way to go for a group lesson and they are very expensive, but at least you have a later start time so you should have know problem getting there. Hope you enjoy your lessons, New Gen are good. Have a fun holiday. Might see you around.
Todays update to follow later. Just sorting out the pics. Only one word to descibe today. POWDER!! More details to follow.
Heated socks!! Amazing!! After my problems last season with frostbite and now this season with -26 on a few days. I had to find a solution or stop going out on the very cold days. The answer, Therm-ic Heated Socks. You need to get the ones with the powersock ic 1200 system. Only used them for two days now, but they are great. - 20 up at 3000m today and my feet stayed warm all day. I left home at 9am and did not get back till 6pm and they stayed warm the whole time. It says they should be ok for up to 14 hrs on level 1 setting. I had them on level 2 setting today and they lasted very well. There is a level three setting, but so far I have not needed to use it. Take a look at their web page for more details.
http://www.thermic.com/#/sport/en/products/warm_feet.html
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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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Look great. Where did you buy them and any idea how much?
Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| DamonST, your in for a good time with more snow forecast for the weekend. Have a good holiday. If you fancy meeting up for a beer or even to get a few pics in the off piste send me a PM on here or over on my facebook page. |
Got here this afternoon, practically baked to death by the heaters in the coach (methinks the friendly french driver was bahamian in a previous life).
All checked in, carre neige added to the lift pass, hire skis picked up and just stuffed our faces in the hotel restaurant. Going to have a reasonably peaceful night tonight, then hit the slopes bright and early tomorrow.
Appreciate the offer Chris, however we are still finding our snow legs, so off-piste is a little out of our comfort zone this season. Maybe next time
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snowcrazy, those socks look excellent. How much? Also, how thick are they? they sound, from the description, as though they might be a big hefty to fit inside close-fitting ski boots.
Nice photo. 
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pam w, thefatcontroller, The sock cost about 280 Swiss Francs and I bought them in a Sports shop near Geneva. Not cheap, but they worked well again today and it was COLD!!! They are just like normal ski socks and have a special battery that seems to last all day without a problem. It does not get in the way either. They were expensive, but seem to do the job well. With my frostbite problem, I think they were worth the cost. Will report again later in the season after they have been used many tmes.
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I have just had a look online and the socks and batteries come separately. Socks £59.99 RRP and batteries £99.00. Pricey, but what price are your toes? (and you could buy 2 pairs of socks - one on, one in the wash) - Presumably the batteries are rechargeable. They look like ordinary ski socks and would go in your boots OK.
I swear by my boot dryer/heater...so much more effective than messing about with a hairdryer!
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snowyowl, link to where you found them?
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snowyowl, Yeah been thinking about buying a boot dryer. Which one do you have?
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surfski, We used to have the cheap boot dryers, 2 things on the end of a lead. Work fine but we have put in boot warmers and you bleed them at the end of the day to dry boot. However my boots are way to tight and even with boot warmers my feet could still be amputated by lunchtime and I would not notice. Think Santa gonna be giving me new boots next year. One more trip in March and will suffer through that.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Firstly, bloody hell it's cold.
Now that's out of the way, to all the half term doom mongers, so far the longest que was this morning at transarc(5 mins) right at the start of all the group lessons.
Great instructor, in the lesson there is myself an 3 others, all English, which is nice. Just this mornings 2.5 hour lesson, skitracks stats are 48.7mph, distance 17.3 miles,total vert 10263 feet, 41 degree slope.
What a place is is, the snow is fantastic.
That's lunch finished off out for some more.
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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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Thanks thefatcontroller, I now have a pair on order ready for my trip to LA in 10 days time!
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Richie_S, Glad to help. Enjoy. leave some snow for us in 5+ weeks.
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Poster: A snowHead
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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?
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Jon Ford, Brilliant video, look forward to seeing the rest. I love the soundtrack, what is it? Edit, Ok i got it now.
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Jon Ford, great
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Jon Ford, great film - looking forward to the next installment. Were you behind the camera the whole time, or is one of those skiers/boarders you?
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Jon Ford, well put together video Jon, liked it alot... and just helps build the excitement for my trip next week !
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Blue sky, good snow and loads of jumps!!
After arriving at Arc 1600 we headed to the snowpark for a quick few warm up jumps (the kids, not me) then headed over to Peisey Vallandry area and more jumps off the side of the pistes and in the trees. Finally after a couple of laps of the Derby chair we had lunch at the snack bar above the Peisey chair, outside in the sun with the Bellecote behind us. What a great setting and the food was good as well.
After lunch, up the 2300 chair and down the border cross course, through the trees and all the way to the Charmettoger chair to avoid the queues at the Derby. Then up the Transarc gondola to the Arc 2000 bowl and the Border cross course. Another little race down and some off piste to the bottom of the Marmottes chair. Then back up for another run of the border cross course and some more off piste down to the Bois de l'ours chair. A little play on the Clair blanc red (?). quote! 'that is never a red!' then onto the snowpark for a few more photos and finally back to the Beguin hotel bar above Arc 1600 for a nice hot chocolate and home.
All the pistes today had a good covering of snow, but with the heavy use this week, hard packed firm chalky snow is starting to form in many areas and it can be tricky keeping your edge coming into lifts and resort stations. Take care and give yourself plenty of room to slow down. The off piste was in good condition as well and had plenty of safe jumps to keep the kids happy all day, plus some challenging slopes to improve their technique.
Oh yes, and before anyone else posts this, I fell over on a blue piste again!!
Tomorrow the weather may start to change, will just have to wait and see, but it should be another fun day. Pics from today following shortly in the Feb 2012 album of my Les Arcs Winter facebook page. Enjoy!
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Wed 15-02-12 1:11; edited 1 time in total
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