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Alex A, if the weather arrives as forecast Le tour could be a bit bleak, the snow is fine but with no trees or cover from the wind it wouldn't be my choice. Les Houches if you can get parked has the trees it was thin a couple of days back but should be ok now. I've had some great days in poor weather in the Magic Forrest at GM. Failing that a trip to Courmayeur where at least you'll get a good lunch and coffee.
It's raining in Les Houches right now.
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| Alex A, very good reports from Grands Montets this morning. TBH, Les Houches is so sparse - which would be our normal bad weather zone so you're not going to find trees anywhere. I'd go B-F to avoid the GM crowds. |
Great, thanks !
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I did the magic forest 2 years ago as part of my first proper off-piste experience. Fantastic but super hard at the time. I'd like to try it again this year if the snows ok.
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Meteo Cham are calling 3/5 tomorrow moving to 4/5 in the evening, be safe.
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Nine more sleeps until I'm there, so it damned well better start snowing!
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Zero_G, 
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AndAnotherThing.., the wigglies are showing a possible few centimetres around the time of my arrival but that's so far in advance in weather terms that I'm just ignoring it. But still hoping 
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8am in Les Houches , snow down to village level overnight. Welcome after yesterdays constant rain below 1400m.
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Zero_G, I've been looking but fingers crossed there will be a bit of fresh to play in.
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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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Idris, Your recovery is going OK then 
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lovely.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ahhh
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AndAnotherThing.., I am allowed out to play...a bit and only gently. Probably going under the knife to get it fixed in April
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Poster: A snowHead
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It's looking very warm out there at the moment; how's it affecting the skiing?
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Skied at Flegere today. Almost empty! Which was great after the mayhem of the last couple of weeks. On piste conditions are almost perfect, some sections haven't been bashed yet. Off piste there is still a bit to be had, although it's a little stiffer with the warm temps. We didn't get the 70% sunshine forecast by meteo Cham and had flat light later in the day! all in all, great skiing.
Idris, vb looks good, what the bottom like?
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Les Houches was also pretty quiet today away from the races. Plenty of freshly groomed corderoy to lay down loverly carved tracks and also plenty of chopped up (and fresh) powder to play in: the overnight low made it a bit dryer and lighter than yesterday. Favourite run was the top half of Kandahar/Verte: freshly groomed and no-one on it apart from me and youngster (who still can't start racing for another two years...).
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Idris, vb looks good, what the bottom like? |
To Montonvers, fine .
To Mottets a bit of an adventure getting off the snout, wandering through the boulders. but the climb out is just as tough as normal. Ski out was in good nick, made it all the way to the level crossing before the uninterrupted tarmac made me take my skis off.
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Skied GM today. All I can say is "wind bashed uggg!"
Piers Ric not too bad condition. But wouldn't say great.
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Booked 9 days in Chamonix arriving 23rd Jan so will be watching this thread with interest, never been before so looking forward to trying somewhere new
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yesterday was like sping slush up brevent, today was bullet proof in places!
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eddiethebus, first thing it was shaking my fillings out, it did soften up a bit later.
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i think i did about 3 laps of the cornu and came home for a cuppa! night skiing and curry later
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Keep the reports coming guys ,
looking forwards to arriving end of Jan so the more info the better
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| Idris wrote: |
| jbob wrote: |
Idris, vb looks good, what the bottom like? |
To Montonvers, fine .
To Mottets a bit of an adventure getting off the snout, wandering through the boulders. but the climb out is just as tough as normal. Ski out was in good nick, made it all the way to the level crossing before the uninterrupted tarmac made me take my skis off. |
Thanks for the reports - always a pleasure to read.
Have you been up to the Midi recently? I'm arriving tomorrow, and thinking that's prob about the safest place to be off piste at the moment, given the conditions. Do you know how the conditions are nearby, eg Courmayeur, Megeve?
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You know it makes sense.
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Chamcham, I was in Courmayeur a couple of days ago. They have more snow than Cham. I've had a couple of cracking days there playing in the near piste. Might go tomorrow.
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jbob, I've heard it's pretty good 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'm arriving next Wednesday and it looks like there might be new snow some time Mon-Weds. Can't wait. Lads weekend too - our 3rd but we missed last year.... 
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Any tips for Courmayeur - where to ski (especially if bad vis) or is it obvious - just head for the trees? We've always stayed in the valley before but your comments have me tempted....
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thanks all, I'll be skiing in about 36 hrs
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mickv, thanks, yeah had seen the FWT was there but luckil this didn't seem to have too big an impact on accomodation.
How much of an advantage is a car, I don't mind getting the bus and am used to spread out ski resorts having skied Mayrhofen/Tux a bit. I am going to Geneva by train and boyfriend is flying from UK so we are arriving at different times so just getting our own transfer bus would probably be easiest and save hanging about the airport for ages. A car will also be quite a bit more expensive seen as there are only 2 of us and we would need to hire for 10 days, how much of an advantage is it?
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nemesys, Plenty of tree runs on the Zerotta side. If the snow is in good nik then most of it is sweet.
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nemesys, there are four areas.
The Toula glacier which is serious offpiste territory.
The val veny, shaded in the morning, sunny in the afternoon. Lots of offpiste fun in the trees, and some top specs for lunch and coffees.
The plan cecrouit side sunny in the morning, wide open pistes lots of easy runs. Plenty of lunch specs incl one of the best in the alps.
The Youla and Arp, this area is high and treeless with a red piste down, but has lots of top notch off piste decents without the worry of glaciated terrain. There are 3/4 north facing that drop into the val veny, and another couple more south facing that come down on the Courmayeur side.
All have significant avi risk on the wrong day.
Have fun.
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jbob, Have you skied any of the the routes from the top of Youla or through the barrier at the top of Arp ?
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AndAnotherThing.., I have skied from both quite a few times, but not this season! There is no restriction skiing from the arp anymore although they do seem to keep an eye on people who aren't equipped. The last time I was there last Sunday there were a few people skiing out to zerrotta, I assume they had skied from the top. There is a new book with these descents well described, Mont Blanc Freeride.
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Hello Chamonix peeps. I'll be in the Grand Massif for my annual "boys trip" from this Sunday... as conditions aren't great, we may consider a couple of drives to try other areas... Cham is only 45 mins away (ish) - which area should we head to (all decent skiers... not overly fussed about off-piste). Any advice welcome, thanks - Steve
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Thanks for the advice jbob and AndAnotherThing.. - much appreciated.
Usually spend most of our time off-piste but maybe not this year with the avi situation - perhaps stick to the trees and shallower stuff.
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