 Poster: A snowHead
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Swirly, You're going to make me look in that forum again! 
Pretty much as said above. It was sunny in the morning but clouded over around midday and the next front seems to be coming in. If the forecasts are to be believed we'll have lots of snow next week.  It was very cold though, and my feet are much warmer in the thermo-fit inners, but boy! what a loss of control and fit compared to the foam injected ones.  Now I'm having to think about what to do, cos l'Y was tough with my feet wandering int he boots. Good snow for the most part though.
A rather different pix today - it's the banners that are above many of the lifts showing the rules of the piste in cartoon form - just to show that resorts are trying - pity no-one bothers to look at them!
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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, that's the plan  looking forward to the next snow already.
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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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paulmck, Read and replied
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Dumping
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| easiski wrote: |
A rather different pix today - it's the banners that are above many of the lifts showing the rules of the piste in cartoon form - just to show that resorts are trying - pity no-one bothers to look at them! |
Do you think that cartoon pictures might be passed off as irrelevant to adults - something for the kids?
One seemingly effective warning sign I saw recently was based on a photograph - it's in the carpark on Holy Island, Lindisfarne and warns about the danger of trying to cross the causeway at the wrong time. It shows a car almost submerged & simply points out "this could be you". I noticed quite a lot of people looking at it and wandering off talking about it, discussing when they'd cross to leave the Island. I wonder if a series of ski accident photos posted at strategic points, perhaps where people queue for main lifts, might hit home more effectively than cartoons? To make them totally language independent, a cartoon/line drawn depiction of a rule being broken could be beside each photo suggesting that if you do this, here is the potential consequence.
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easiski, wish I could just jump on a plane and come across. And don't suggest I do!  One bit of good news - Mrs a has said it would be no problem if my March holiday were brought forward a week. Really depends on what admin does about the MSB soon, and a possible off-piste trip to Serre Chevalier - but the Lutins bar may yet see me checking out the hydraulics again this season.
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Well, I got sent home from work today because there is too much snow. 
It's like school.
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achilles, I do like the convenience of Lutins and it is one of the reasons, like you, i head to L2A
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Lizzard, wow.
rayscoops, brilliant place - spot on location (it was the first hotel built in LDA, according to easiski) - and run by one of the beautiful people.
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Interesting conditions today, one of those when you can't see a thing or work out which way is up. Unfortunately there's been a bit of rain at resort level and the low snow is pretty heavy going (must be tonnes of fresh up high though), thankfully it stopped for a bit over the warmest part of the day and as it cooled down started to snow again. Probably been a good foot + of snow still and more forecast. Need to be careful out there though the snow+high wind and bit of rain has pushed the avvy risk through the roof.
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Well, I got sent home from work today because there is too much snow.
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Good good! Hope you enjoyed the time off & are looking forward to playing in the new snow when you get a chance!
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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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wow, hope you get loads !!!!
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I never got much above the top of the resort today, and it was vile! Annie & the flying bogee came over yesterday and we were due to ski today - but didn't! When people turn up for a lesson in walking boots they might be trying to tell you something! Anyway they've got home OK.
In the afternoon it did rain (not too much fortunately), but then sleet and hail. Wherever it wasn't pisted - which was nearly everywhere on the lower slopes you more or less stopped dead!! the wind got up to such a degree in gusts in the town that 2 local club kids were blown over on the Lutins lift (ha, ha!)  and the lift derailed twice (not so ha)
The pic is from the pretty little green piste that winds through the bottom end of town when I took one of my beginners there.
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You know it makes sense.
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Monster snow overnight - about 25 - 30 cms outside the house. I'll report later having just spent 90 mins digging out the van which was stuck last night. The chains are on and I got up to the top of the road OK and have parked it in the Quirlies parking space. With chains costing €160 you can be sure I didnt' want to risk putting them on at 23.00 last night and possibly breaking them! Not the mention the wall of snow that the snowplough plonked in front of it blocking me in, and the police coming round this morning to tell me to move it!!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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easiski ah, the joys of skiing 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Well the storm has passed and the sun came out to play today, although it did play hide and seek with clouds and mist for a fair bit of the time. The snow was lighter in the morning than yesterday, but as the temperature rose during the day the snow in the village did get a lot heavier. Howeve it wasn't half bad. The Face was fairly heavily tracked, but I heard that Super Diable and Bellecombe chairlifts were closed due to very high avalanche risk - see Swirly's comments yesterday.
2 pix today - one shows one of my neighbours' cars and the other is a moody pic looking towards La Muzelle from the grand Viking chairlift. Tomorrow I'm expecting to get as high as the Cretes.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, looks like the cars on our road, someone's been digging one out for a fair while now. Once again I'm very glad of the covered parking space. On a much more serious note http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0892-avalanches-leave-three-skiers-in-critical-condition/ makes sobering reading, sadly I'm not that surprised given the number of skiers and boarders you see way off piste without a rucksack or occasionally on their own. The snow from yesterday hasn't appeared to bond to the rain crust that formed during the warmer part of the afternoon. I hope he recovers (of course) but you have to ask what he was doing there in the first place.
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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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Swirly, How stupid can people be? That whole area was closed because of avalanche danger as I reported yesterday ...... it avalanches frequently as does Rachas above it.... When will people learn?????
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I have now learned that the skier was killed on the Voute, not the Combe du Thuit - well it is a slope leading down into the Combe du Thuit.
today was just bluebird all the way. I did manage a few turns in the powder in the top of the Combe du Thuit and it was very nice very slightly wind affected, but otherwise very
The snow on the piste at the Cretes and in the village was really, really nice, but the face was not quite so nice. Where people had skied the other day in the heavy wet snow there were large lumps of not quite frozen but not soft snow. You could ski through it but it wasn't nice, so I took myself off into the trees under the white eggs for the return journey. I did manage (with a bit of looking) to find a number of trees that had powder around them and then ski in it - the descent took a long time but was quite fun.
Pic is from high up on the Grande Pente over towards Sapins looking across to Alpe d'Huez
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easiski, Indeed, so would I be happier bringing him to you, but it's a tad more expensive than a trip over to Manchester! The taster in question is a 50 minute intro, so shouldn't really do too much damage and if he likes it then we can work on getting him back over to you - he keeps saying how much he enjoyed our trip last summer . The remarkable thing is he has said he will do it - I think he's banking on the other person backing out!
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Butterfly, Well just check before you book him in that in 50 mins all they'll do is a bit of straight running and getting used to the skis and boots. Seriously - as he's not keen, if they start with snowplough and try to do a bit more in such a short time it will seriously put him off - really. You cannot imagine.
today was grey, flat light, and a tiddly bit of snow in the afternoon - oh yes and it was cold too. Pic of a miserable looking Cretes this afternoon.
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easiski, will do - won't be until May/June anyway. CaistorSkier's daughter/son-in-law are in ADH this week - their 1st ski trip on their own - so I hope they have some good conditions.
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It was a rather bitty day today. Not warm and with a fair bit of cloud around. I'm not sure about the wind high up earlier, but there was a fair bit of snow blowing off the Tete Moute later. The Cretes was fine though. Piste conditions are very good, and Mr Lizzard tells me that the off piste is good higher up, but I haven't been there. Pix of looking down from the traverse path to the skating rink and the swimming pool and also a rather spectacular evening view of sun on the Tete Moute while it was already gone down here at 17.30.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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easiski, Keep up the great pics, makes me wish I was coming out sooner.
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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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fragy, not that long now - as of Sunday it'll be "next month". Are you going with friends/family? Looks like there will be a pretty good SH presence in March - unofficial bash, nearly! 
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Fabulous day today. Wall to wall blue skies, good snow and quite chilly. I skied the top and bottom of the Thuit, Cretes and l'Y and they were all great. Pic shows how much snow there is on the mountain side of the track from the top of the Cretes to the Bellecombe chair.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Butterfly, It will be me and the good lady wife, we are out from the 15th for a week so all those early bird SHds best be leaving a bit of snow and a few beers for me
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Sunny day today after a cold night. Warm and sunny in the afternoon down here, but I didn't go up so no photo and no snow info today - sorry. going to Alpe du Grande Serre tomorrow.
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It sounds delightful!
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Lovely morning when I was stuck in a meeting and cloudy and cold this afternoon when I was out on the hill.  the snow is really good on the piste but off the piste below the Cretes is really vile. Never mind, more snow is forecast - I just hope more turns up than they're suggesting.
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mcboz, you are personally responsible for making me feel miserable today, I am so green with envy !!!
Looks fantastic
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