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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi all,
New member here. Myself and a friend are looking to head out mid-July to board for a week but we're having trouble finding accommodation for 2 people that's reasonably priced. Can anyone point me in the direction of any?
Cheers,
Simon
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Now I'm sure there are other options. But for location and price you can't really fault the Hotel Les Lutins. It's right beside the Jandri Express in L2A and provides basic but well kept B&B facilities. It's about €70 a night for two sharing.
I'm sure the many other happy snowheads who have stayed there can elaborate farther.
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Looks good. Can't find a site to book through though? Any ideas?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whitegold, Oy! I'm nice to you and you call me a dude?  |
Lol.
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sarah, yes, and she's been skiing today too!
poly.kid, welcome to snowheads. They don't have a website at Les Lutins, you have to phone Cathy the owner. The number is on the page for the hotel on the tourist office website (www.les2alpes.com). Alternatively you could rent an apartment for the week. If you want some more help PM me, or look at www.easi-apartments.com for a few good'uns. Also you can eat every night at the restaurant Il Caminetto for around €15 for 3 courses, fixed menu + 1 drink. If you fancy that, use my name.  I don't think the Lutins is that expensive actually, but I'm not 100% sure. they open at the beginning of July. Also hotel Serre Palas is similar, cheap and cheerful B & B.
great day today, my blog has no less than 3 videos today (+stills). 2 of them are skiing, so you can enjoy it vicariously. www.easiski.com/blog1
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looks very nice out there. Nice here too though; watching the huge buttery full moon come up over the water in the cool of the evening.
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He says he's not into football, but having failed to find the England/Germany match on the apartment TV, Mr B decided The Red Frog bar needed a visit. Hey it has free wifi so I am not complaining.
Had a great morning on the glacier - superb snow. Have got a nice bit of video of easiski on the teles. Looking forward to tomorrow - it's Mr B's big day!
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As Butterfly, says, we had a nice day on the glacier with the exception of skiing down with DavidAsh and my student of the last few days. The run down was totally revolting snow today, not helped by me being on teles. I didn't actually fall, but I did have some serious wobbles when hitting patches of sticky snow! 
for all Butterfly, fans here's a pic of her off piste on the Echines today, very good! The telemarking vid and another few pix + longer report are on www.easiski.com/blog1 . I think I'm improving on the teles, and am quite chuffed with the vid - thanks H.
It seems, however, that no-one except me can work my new video - bah!
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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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How is Mr B doing?
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You know it makes sense.
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Butterfly, Fantastic Did he enjoy it? Has he got another lesson?
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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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Loving the blog and pics!
Thanx Easiski!!
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went up yesterday for the first time this summer...was a great morning. Skied down to the mid station twice and it was like a private ski area with no one else skiing down as most up there are racers and wouldn't want to risk their skis (although hardly a pebble about). Snow a bit sticky by lunchtime, but very hot when down in resort. A thunderstorm with massive hailstones followed at teatime!! Bit weird getting on at the mid station as mountain bikers are getting off!
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Charlotte, maybe a dumb question, but are you essentially skiing on snow left over from the winter season, and the reason you can still ski down to mid station is that it hasn't all melted, whereas in other years it would have melted by now? Is that due to a deep winter or mild spring/summer?
Is then the summer season a case of skiing what you can before it retreats up the mountain?
Not trying to be negative, just trying to understand!
Regards,
Greg
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kitenski, I think there has been some fresh snow since the glacier closed at the beginning of May, and it took a while for the weather to warm up this year, so I suspect it is a bit of both. I've only ever skied on the glacier slopes above the restaurant in the summer in the past though.
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kitenski, when we did a week in L2A last June we spent the first day skiing on freshly fallen snow - very nice indeed.
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kitenski, As Hells Bells, says it's a bit of both. The big advantage this year was very heavy snowfall all winter and then lots more in spring, so we opened with 1.10m more snow on the glacier than last year. In addition to that there was a lot of snow below the glacier and they are still pisting the Jandri run down to 2,600m which is officially open still. I'm going to ski it with Butterfly tomorrow, and I intend to ski the walls of the top of Gours also (not with her). This is more because it's possible and it will be 1st July! The snow there is disappearing fast and already some of the tracks made when I was videoed by DavidAsh have given way to stones. Of course the glacier acts as a giant deep freeze to keep the snow, and a good re-freeze every night helps keep everything in order.
Summer skiing is very different from winter skiing in that the snow is like spring snow with bells on. Bigger crystals and more variation. You can only ski for half the day anyway, and although the glacier area here is huge, it's still relatively limited. Summer skiing should be a holiday with a bit of skiing attached as opposed to a skiing holiday.
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brian
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Is then the summer season a case of skiing what you can before it retreats up the mountain?
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Definitely. Get there in June and you'll pretty much definitely have down to Signal at 2800m, possibly the Jandri mid station at 2600m. We've been twice in early July and both times by the time we left it was down to the "normal" summer area which is all above 3200m.
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not too sure about that! If you get up in time to get the first lift up at 0700, ski for three hours or so at that altitude, have a picnic lunch in the sun while the crowds disappear down the lift and then get back to hot afternoon sun in the village, a quiet beer with your feet up isn't such a bad way to spend the afternoon. We had lots of good intentions about all the activities in the afternoon but we didn't exactly do many of them! Lift down to Venosc - then a hunt for the first bar with a cool beer was about as energetic as it got. But then we were all OAPs. 
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pam w, Yes - but you were on a training camp last year (and getting twice the original planned hours of training!) My point is, that if people come summer skiing thinking about it the same way that they think about a winter skiing holiday they leave disappointed. We want them to come, but we want them to understand that it's not the same and can't be.
You are also a different case because you have a 'local's' view of skiing anyway!
brian, The earliest I can remember losing Signal was 10th July. I can remember skiing it after the first week of August pre-2003. Even last year (which wasn't good) it was possible to ski down to 2,600m for the first few days with only a couple of skis off moments. It wasn't worth it though. 2008 and 2010 OTOH ..... To say nothing of Echines.  Look at the number of lines available there!
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easiski, yes, you're right of course, our week was hardly representative! Most people are probably not quite so knackered in the afternoons. I really enjoyed feeling knackered, anyway - a good feeling to relax after such a strenuous morning.
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It's a fab way to have a summer hol with added zing & something to please almost anybody. Yesterday mid-morning I was able to make fresh tracks en route from the Glacier Resto down under the Jandri Express to the Funicular station - couldn't believe nobody'd skied that bit!
There are lots of things to do in the afternoons - lifts stay open for bikers/pedestrians, there's swimming, archery, pony trekking, the summer luge track, the Croisiere Blanche (a piste basher converted to take a passenger cabin up to the top of the glacier) and more. The alpine flowers are a wonderful sight esp with a backdrop of the sound of cowbells. Yesterday we drove just over the Italian border & visited Claviere and then Briancon. Today we took a drive over to Alpe d'Huez as Mr B hadn't been there, but had seen it on TV often enough during the Tour de France.
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 Well, I'm really prouod of Butterfly, who is really getting some ankle and knee movement into her skiing, with the attendant increase of control. Extension/flexion is quite a step forward and she's now skiing with much more panache, rhythm and flow. WELL DONE H
A hot day again with a spectacular shower in the early evening and a fair few rumbles of thunder around. More heat is forecast for the next couple of days.
there's a full report with a good few pix (but no embarassing ones of Butterfly, ) on my blog, (www.easiski.com/blog1 )including my off piste descent to 2,600m at the end of the day. Included is a short video panorama of the route I was about to ski, before I skied it. This is a pic Butterfly, took out of the Jandri Express which shows a little of the scale of the thing.
I don't think I'll be doing the off piste again (too much walking and climbing), and I rather doubt if I'll ski to the middle except with a student from now on. However it's fantastic to be able to do all this on 1st July.
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Butterfly, well done 
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Butterfly, really pleased to hear you are having such a great week 
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Fab day today, with some awesome stuff to watch in the snopark. My skiing finished on a high, coming down the side of the Dome. Thanks so much easiski for all the encouragement.
Tomorrow we drive up to Epernay for a few days under canvas - no idea what internet we will find if any.
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with envy! Hope 
. By the way - it wasn't that I couldn't work your camcorder, just that its screen looked totally black so I had no idea if it was working or not and if it was, I'd have had no idea what I was filming! At least the bit on my little camera worked ok.
