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On a Murren note. One of the runs down to Murren called the Palace Run is under construction bigtime .This is required due to heavy rain which has destroyed part of the run back to the resort. If anyone knows this run its the sharp bend just before you start to view Murren.. They are hoping it will be open in time for the winter season ...fingers x
I have pictures back dont have any web storage...Murren looks so different in the summer !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Chris Brookes, D G Orf might appreciate the photos for his site on the Jungfrau region. See in his profile for site url and in there is an email address.
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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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Thanks Ian but i have load of my winter pictures already on his site but thanks for the idea..Unless David wants to do a summer one aswell..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ooops - sorry guys. Should read the small print. Thanks to you both - it's a great site.
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Chris Brookes, at some point (when I have a few weeks to spare) I intend to completely redo my website, it will then give a lot more information and hopefully cover both summer and winter activities for the whole area, mind you you could email me the pic of the construction as I'd like to see it 
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David
I've sent you a movie clip instead as you cant see the damage so much looking at the still pictures
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Thanks Chris, that damage isn't too bad, no problems getting the track repaired for next season
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I hope so but friends in the village say that the engineering work is a lenghty one because they have no support around the edge.The old support was of course concrete with nets attached to it for the winter but when the rains came it took that,trees,mud etc down the valley.
I hope it sorted for the winter season..
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Chris don't worry, if they can build an entire cablecar station in 4 months including sinking a 6oft deep pit for the counterweight then they can repair a collapsed road in a similar time,
Seriously though I've been very impressed with the Swiss capacity to do major civil engineering projects over the years, many of which come in on time and on budget, it's a shame we seem incapable of doing so in our own country
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Very true on both points
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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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| Chris Brookes wrote: |
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Only it's not true at all, the record in Switzerland may be better than the UK but there again so's the Greek record. The tunnel repairs on the autoroutes are taking a lot longer than scheduled and are over budget as is the new autoroute round the Neuchatel lake to name but two within a few km of where I'm sitting.
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I guess compared to the UK almost anywhere does better when it comes to projects of that nature, as for Switzerland well ise is there so I would have to say he knows better, still looking at what the swiss have managed in terms of road and rail construction in difficult locations I cannot say I'm not impressed
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You know it makes sense.
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Look at Jungfraujoch...thats an amazing piece of engineering !!
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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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Chris Brookes, or for that matter any of the high mountain top cable or railway stations
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Poster: A snowHead
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The autoroutes, to be fair, probably caught them by surprise, I guess they didn't expect to be doing the tunnel work prior to the Mt Blanc incident and others. I imagine that would have disrupted te schedules a bit.
What on earth is going on with the road in our village is another story entirely though, it seemed perfectly fine until they started messing around with it  Possibly related to the damage from the high temperatures last year.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ise, I notice that they have also been busy working on new high speed rail links, they certainly seem to spend less time doing those than we do in the UK, here all we do is talk about feasability studies until everyone forgets what the actual route was that they were supposed to be discussing 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Would you believe that there is a golf tournament being run on the Lauberhorn Race track at the moment ? no neither do I but apparently it really is, something to do with the races 75th aniverssary 
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Winter season....please please hurry up
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Winter season....please please hurry up
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Seconded 
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Thirded!!!!
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Would anybody mind if I booked a good consistant snowfall over the Bernese Oberland for every Friday night from the End of October till The end of March ?
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and of course, temperatures to go with it...... I dont mind if no one else does
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Go on then....if you must 
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Right then I've had words and it's booked, but apparently there may be the odd early or late fall because it's very difficult to control cloud placement
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Can't have everything a !
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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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I know im sad BUT the temps are dropping in the region and snow is forecast with the freezing level going down to 1700m. No doubt the temps will go back up but the way i feel i will grab onto anything if it shows me the winter season is just around the corner...
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Chris Brookes, you are not sad, you're enthusiastic, which makes a true snowhead in my book!
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You know it makes sense.
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Right then I've had words and it's booked, but apparently there may be the odd early or late fall because it's very difficult to control cloud placement
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See Chris I told you I'd had words 
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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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What a lovely picture (same picture but different cow,of course each year) on www.wengen.com/news showing the cows coming down from the mountain pastures..... Winter is coming !!
Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Sat 25-09-04 15:30; edited 1 time in total
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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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Quick...someone get me a flight
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Very thoughtful David.
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The kleine scheidegg one is different to yesterday...so it's doing something
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D G Orf, I understand!!
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Sadly the snow is already starting to melt 
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But in a strange way thats good as its too early
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Hopefully we should see it starting to build up from November onwards
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