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snowangel., it looks lovely anyway - I'll have to visit one day!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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laundryman, it is lovely! the old town reminds me a bit of York, strange i know but it does. Its the cobbled narrow streets, they just do it for me! Good shopping too and its fun exploring the fort in the summer.
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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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snowangel., maybe they're gonna be Bond villains? We've always thought they looked like hangouts for baddies. Did Briancon succeed in their quest to become a UNESCO World Heritage site?
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Helen Beaumont, that i'm afraid i dont know, i'll have to find out for you.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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snowangel., shellthecobbler,
Nice pics
For those interested: Briancon’s skiing is relatively new, the lifts out of Briancon were only built in the mid 80’s. Before then one had to walk up from the top of the Prorel pass from the Chantemerle side to ski down to Briancon. The best of the off piste through the trees is now apparently designated out of bounds as a quid pro quo for getting the lifts built.
Although the lowest lift in Briancon is quite low the bulk of the skiing starts at the midstation of the gondola at 1600m and is reasonably reliable in winter and in spring but is then best skied in the mornings. The run to the bottom from the midstation has snow cannons and flood lit skiing at night and is usually kept open till the first week of April in my experience though the surrounding fields are green. The top bit of the Briancon area has just about the only south facing pistes in the Serre Che area. The Briancon skiing is usually well-groomed and good fun it is also sheltered from the wind. Anyone other than beginners though would benefit from getting the full Serre Che pass if going for a week as the local slopes are not particularly extensive. It is easy to get to and from the rest of the skiing either by free ski bus or via the lift system.
Briancon as a town has some attractive bits and some less attractive bits personally I am not to keen on the bits near the lift station. The old town is about 100m higher than the bottom of the lifts and I find a car useful for getting about as well as visiting other nearby resorts which you can ski on a weeks lift pass. Montgenevre and Puy St Vincent are close by, La Grave and 2 Alpes a bit further and Alpe d’Huez possible and on the same lift pass but a fair bit further to get to. La Grave you have to pay extra for.
Vauban was a French military engineer under Louis XIV who was the leading thinker of siege warfare in his time he designed many fortified towns around France and Briancon is well worth seeing though all the surrounding forts are not of Vaubans design.
This link http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6750/ may be of interest for those visiting Briancon or interested in Vauban.
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For anybody who is interested in the history and architecture of the region, there are some old photos and information (in french); Here
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Holy cr_p! Why post multiple 200k images inline!? For God's sake thumbnail and link to them!
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hyweljenkins, dont notice anyone else having a problem with them 
chris, them are great, and a great thing to send the proceeds too, might speak to you about putting some copies up in the chalet for sale
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snowangel., that's where you'd be wrong.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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snowangel., large images like those posted into a thread often raise complaints. The preferred way to do it would be with linked thumbnails.
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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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snowangel., it's not the paintings, but the photos on the previous page that are the problem.
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I understand IMG and URL tags but how does one thumbnail???, or am I being really thick and ignorant for not knowing
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty the Snowman, resize the image you're including in the [img] tag, and wrap that in a [url] to the full-size image that people can opt to download.
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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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resize the image you're including in the [img] tag,
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Poster: A snowHead
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Frosty the Snowman, take an image like this one https://snowheads.com/the_zone/showphoto.php/showphoto.php/photo/1851
Using the linked thumbnail code shown down the page results in this
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and shows up in a post as this
The picture itself is small in both bandwidth and screen size but is clickable to open up to full size in another window. It allows the page to load quickly and the thumbnail image gives the reader an idea of what the picture is (better than a text link), if they're interested they can click it to get to the full version.
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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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Frosty the Snowman, if you open the link on Fenlandskiers post, and look at the bottom of the page in snowMedia Zone, there is a line of code which you can copy and paste into your post to give a thumbnail.
FenlandSkier, that line of code you quoted's doing havoc with my viewing.
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which you can copy and paste
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Helen Beaumont, Now we are cooking on gas. Ta very much 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Frosty the Snowman, it's the address of the thumbnail image that the snowmediazone software automatically generates for the indexes and navigation menus. It is only 100x75 pixels in size and 2kb so is very small in both bandwidth and screen space.
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pha, life is too short to worry about photo's.
much much more important is how the piste are to ride.
I've just had the best morning. I was greatly suprised as to just how nice the pistes are. Yes there are some stones, yes there are some icy bits but on the whole it is bloody lovely up there!
The begining of the luc has a sign warning of icy snow, i thought i was gonna be cursing by the time i got down, but it was lovely!
Yes we need some more but on the whole it is totally awesome!
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Nice paintings chris.
Another piece of info on Briancon - it also boasts (well a couple of years ago) a top 100 listing for one of it's restaurants. Can't for the life of me remember the name, but it's down near the river, by a little bridge (for any officienados). And it was bloody good too, if a little pricey. Although the wine did bump up the price if I was honest!
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hi i am going to villenvenue, on the 28th is that a lower resort in serre chaveliere? can anybody tell me in layman's terms what the situaltion is with the snow ?? thanx 
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chloev, i would have thought my report above, from this morning would have told you enough. there is snow, the pistes are great. dont expect to see snow in the valley unless we get dumped on from a great hight in the next week!
villeneuve is 1400 but dont stress it is lovely here
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Mark Hunter, that would be La Peche Gourmande, I think. Monetier now has a Michelin-starred restaurant, L'Antidote, in the Hotel Alliey.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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chloev, sorry to be sarcastic - but which bit of snowangel.,'s report did you not understand????
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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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easiski,snowangel., BE NICE! The report didnt specify any villages in particular, so I think chloev, wasnt asking a ridiculous question.
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I've just received the Metcheck forecast, I am so praying it is right.
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You know it makes sense.
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meteo france says rain to 2000m, i'm so hoping its wrong and its snow to 1350 or even 1200m,
cross everything!
off to Alpe d'huez tomorrow, will report on conditions there when i get home
sorry chloev, didn't mean not to be nice. its ok here and with the new snow we should get tomorrow up top it will be even nicer, i just hope it will be ok down low with the rain we're expecting too
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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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snowangel., fingers very crossed, more snow after the weekend too.
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Poster: A snowHead
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chris,
What size are the prints? I think they are great.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nadenoodlee, Serre Chevalier is Serre chevalier - multiple villages or not - they''re all linked and not at all far from one another. The report was from Serre Chevalier. Snowangle takes the trouble to report quite frequently, and 2 posts later someone asks for info that's already there. Not trying to be not nice, but quite often they just haven't actually looked at the previous posts. 
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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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Mark Hunter, thanks very much.T Bar, again, thanks. All prints are A4. Those are 3 of a set of 12. If you or anyone else would like to see the rest please feel free to PM me. I can send the pics ( 5 mg quality) via e-mail but would insist on a 5 pound donation (per pic) to a charity of your choice.
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Snowing here this morning.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Good news Chris, but in which village? 
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simonmj66, you're quoting me and I don't think I qualify as a new snowhead by any stretch of the imagination... sarcastic? Ah, there you might have me... 
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