 Poster: A snowHead
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We're booked in Les Arcs later this season - enjoy! We're in Plan Peisey and looking forward to it. Booked a while back now, plus we're stuck with Easter Holidays due to children still being at school.
We've gone for the Paradiski pass again, which is what we had last Easter when we were in La Plagne. It gives options in terms of pistes, as the lower down stuff was a bit horrible and closed.
I'd quite like to go back to Serre Che... We tend to do a couple of trips to the same resort back to back and then look around for somewhere else to go. Although Canada + America + Japan has piqued my interest + Sweden - reading about it.
I would have liked to grab an extra trip before the end of the season, but weeks and weekends are filling up rapidly with other stuff..
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So Pointless will really live up to its name, which I explained to the Lady Mairie this morning who was there just as I was going XC.
It shuts down March 6th, I was shown the plans, as I'd heard a nasty rumour of a multi-storey car park but that's not happening, though I was not allowed to take a photo of them.
It's going to be a big project from the looks of things, Mat who runs the cafe next door doesn't seem too worried about how it will impact him.
The first day in a very long while without blue sky and sunshine, so it was a bit weird with the flat light on the XC piste and does not look too good for the foreseeable future with only light snow flurries and forecast not showing anything substantial now out to March 4th.
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@silentice, Pointless is really named Pontillas. At the moment it doesn't really go anywhere after they removed another lift below it, and replaced it with one above it.
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@Hells Bells, ahh thanks, funny I noticed that lift on the map and wondered what it's for! I assumed the map was inaccurate.
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@silentice, you can go up, and then straight back down the Bez piste, but other than that a waste of times as you have to ski across to Casse de Beouf to go anywhere.
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@Hells Bells, it's still actually been quite useful as it saves the massive ballache of finding somewhere to park near Frejus unless of course you're going for 08:30 CDB lift, we just rock up at CDB and use our &joy.
The new lift will be a super fast gondola with far greater capacity ready for the new developments being built along the river up to where the Ice racing circuit was.
It will arrive up on the plateau where the double Col de Mea drags are.
Not too sure when they'll decommission Frejus bubble?
Weather has been minging the past four hours or so 
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Ski resort.info was implying Mea was being replaced by a chair, is that happening too?
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| silentice wrote: |
| Ski resort.info was implying Mea was being replaced by a chair, is that happening too? |
Maybe in the very long term, but they have much more scheduled in advance of that, plus at the top, it can get windy, hence the two drags, as the one on the right is shorter is not as wind affected.
A little more sunshine around than I initially thought this morning, and did think maybe I should have done first lifts to "rip" the fresh, but the Cucumelle webcam is showing a couple of cms at best!
https://www.skaping.com/serre-chevalier/cucumelle
So looks like XC again this morning, but think I'll wait a while as they posted a message on FB* last night warning how conditions will be very icy first thing, after the evenings rain would have frozen and much the same story on the lower pistes - so even more of a good reason not to have done first lifts as last time we skied, and were first down CDB in conditions like that, the OH slid a long way after losing a ski, and going back up on the chair straight afterwards we could not see the tracks of our ski edges as it was so hard n'icy 
Took my daughter and OH a few days to get back on their horses and ski CDB again after that episode 
*Attention tout de même ce matin : les pistes sont un peu gelées. Pour cause : les petites averses d'hier soir...
Privilégiez votre sortie à partir de 10h le temps que la neige se radoucisse.
Cela vaut aussi pour les pistes piétonnes ! Redoublez de vigilance !
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que la neige se radoucisse
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elegant French!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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| Weathercam wrote: |
Also looks like Queyras might be getting a substantial dump, check out Abries / Ristolas on your favourite forecast sites and look at Mon/Tues and then guess when I'm driving to Oulx  |
Is that any good for La Grave?
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@BobinCH, no wrong side of the Lautaret which will block it, we're only just on the borders hence we might be lucky to get 10-15
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You know it makes sense.
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| eps wrote: |
We're booked in Les Arcs later this season - enjoy! We're in Plan Peisey and looking forward to it. Booked a while back now, plus we're stuck with Easter Holidays due to children still being at school.
We've gone for the Paradiski pass again, which is what we had last Easter when we were in La Plagne. It gives options in terms of pistes, as the lower down stuff was a bit horrible and closed.
I'd quite like to go back to Serre Che... We tend to do a couple of trips to the same resort back to back and then look around for somewhere else to go. Although Canada + America + Japan has piqued my interest + Sweden - reading about it.
I would have liked to grab an extra trip before the end of the season, but weeks and weekends are filling up rapidly with other stuff.. |
I'm going for the Paradiski pass too. I've been to La Plagne loads but not sure I ever made it to les Arcs, I always stayed at La Plagne 1800 and it's a bit of a trek to get over and back in a day. This time we're staying in Vallandry though so are right next to the Vanoise Express, so getting to La Plagne and having a decent amount of time to spend there seems to be ok.
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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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Unfortunately, the snow that was heading our way via the Retour d'Est over Queyras has now dissipated and we'll be lucky to see a dribble over Sunday.
I'm doing first lifts, if only to take a break from XC, as certain people have bought new slalom skis 
But the light is very flat. I don't mind any fresh snow as long as it's sunny, but drab grey and no snow is none too motivating.
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Poster: A snowHead
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But the light is very flat. I don't mind any fresh snow as long as it's sunny, but drab grey and no snow is none too motivating.
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I feel exactly the same - it's old age, @Weathercam. Back in the day we'd have been out in anything!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| pam w wrote: |
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But the light is very flat. I don't mind any fresh snow as long as it's sunny, but drab grey and no snow is none too motivating.
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I feel exactly the same - it's old age, @Weathercam. Back in the day we'd have been out in anything!! |
Mmmm not quite the same; maybe I should have explained a little more.
Three of us were going up the hill for first lifts for a Carv session, and the flat light means no matter how hard you're trying you're not going to better your previous score set in much better conditions, hence not too motivating.
As @KenX, might corroborate, it was not for the lack of trying on my part, in quite spectacular fashion, definitely not acting my age
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Weathercam wrote: |
| as certain people have bought new slalom skis |
What have you gone for?
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definitely not acting my age
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I knew that would press your buttons, @Weathercam. I do like to improve my skiing - might fix up a private lesson in Italy next week. But my major motivation is to be up a mountain in the sun - hence a flat light cloudy day, especially if it's a cold one, will probably see me doing a couple of runs then spending two hours in a restaurant.
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@Weathercam, ahhh a little bit of competition between you both. I have a pair of 165 FIS SL's I did my Level 2 instructor course on and I was really able to crank them over, so you might find yourself falling down the pack and back in the shop buying your own pair!
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@swskier, he was the first to buy a pair of CARV improvers!!!
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@KenX, we need a mass SH's CARV gathering and a suitable piste to battle against each other!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@leggyblonde, perhaps this will be the start of @Weathercam's Masters career?
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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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@swskier, slalom + XC combined!
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Yes I remember you did that, just hope that conditions get better here, but if not maybe that's the only way you'll get to ride, at least some untracked.
XC will not be an option you'll be glad to hear, as if we get no fresh snow by the time you all arrive I can see that going
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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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| swskier wrote: |
| @leggyblonde, perhaps this will be the start of @Weathercam's Masters career? |
There is a whole week of Masters races in Serre Chevalier starting on the 13th of March.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Weathercam wrote: |
| Though think I might actually do better at XC rather than hurtling down a piste as I don't quite have the heritage that I suspect most have. |
The same system covers XC and Alpine in France.
You need a medical certificate then get a "Licence Carte Neige" though a club, you can search for a club on the FFS website.
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@rjs, we have the certificates which you need to compete in any sporting event here, my French Dr specifically wrote Mountain activities as well!
I was just Googling events and I missed one a couple of weeks ago, fortunate
We passed on the big Snow Trail event in January as conditions were treacherous even with crampons, was just not worth it.
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