Poster: A snowHead
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had a good week there last year. hope all those going have a great time.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just back from L2A yesterday. Snow conditions on-piste were very good on Friday (our first day), but due to very warm weather and gale-force winds on Friday and Saturday, was not quite as nice by yesterday.
Late afternoon all the runs down to resort level were very "sugary" (little balls of wet-ish ice about the size of match heads).
Diable (black) was very icy all the way on our home run at 1 pm yesterday. There are also quite a few brown patches.
Up high the snow remains very good.
Off-piste is a mix of icy, crusty, skied-out. I managed to find only a couple of spots with a bit of powdery snow - just to the right of the top of the very very VERY long very very VERY flat run (i.e. a total PITA for boarders).
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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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anyone (@Lizzard, @Claude B, ) got experience of skiing mid-April? Only time a few of us can get off work together and thinking of heading back for a week. I know season to season can be different depending on weather etc etc... but in terms of relatively guaranteed decent conditions on the glacier?
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@abbosphere, read the thread Claude B wrote about his "mini season" last year. Conditions at the top of L2A are likely to be as good as anywhere at that time of year.
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little balls of wet-ish ice about the size of match heads
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lovely stuff to ski.
I wouldn't bother with an icy Diable though - take a lift down.
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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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Yes, icy Diable was a real PITA and for me more difficult than Harakiri in Mayrhofen. It sure wasn't pretty...
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Ha that's one mistake I won't be making again, icy diable... feck that!
Arrive this Saturday in the mid-afternoon with UCPA... Skidoosh!
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