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i want free chocolate:( and a cow suit!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Me too.
Lower slopes, especially in Peisey starting to get a little icy today, probably due to volume of skiers. Best conditions here in years for this time of year and I've been coming out here for a decade. Nothing a fresh dump wouldn't sort.
The Vanoise is shut for the season as they can't do repairs until spring for some reason. An instructor who lives in our village explained that 27 of the small cables that make up the main cable had frayed and they had no idea why. L'Equipage (bar/restaurant under Transarc) guys were pretty hacked off about it. They reckon more come over from La Plagne as the rents are cheaper there and that a lot of them get to them for lunch.
I reckon it's not a bad deal for folks this side. Peisey goes back to being a fun playground without the La Plagne crowds. Only disappointment is that they've starved the resort of lift investment since the vanoise as they attempt to recoup the money only to have the blooming thing not working now anyway!
1800 can be a bit impersonal at times but I've found an ace ski hire/sale place called Le Petit Passage near the ski school. Lovely people - if you want to hire from there say Jim sent you and they'll be extra nice. I'm not on commission on honest - we've got on ever since they salvaged by carvers from some early season damage a few years back.
Jim
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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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surfstar, how you settled in at sharons place?, are you in the 8 person or the two ? although i think she uses the 2 for herself, Sharon if your reading are you out there yet? surfstar, have you driven there? what have you done about parking? can you pm me your email addy please.
regards
andrew
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rob@rar, any news from over 2000 way? - how's the artificial lake making, and what if any, has been the effect on the piste map?
But I guess I'll find out for myself in 14 days 23 hours and 5 mins...
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JimW, 9 days 23 hours and 48 mins.......... 
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gwaelod, 
Gotta love those countdown widgets!
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gwaelod, Nice map - best I've seen this year.
Not many pistes seem all that different then, but looks as if they've removed the skier/boarder cross from the Vallee de l'Arc run (which I understand was the source of most of the wrist injuries in the resort last year  - probably because it was so accessable and visible from the Arcabulles lift, there were many people on it who maybe shouldn't have been...), and are now advertising the one next to Plan Verte. That one was awesome last year and if you're not careful you can pick up some serious speed.
But it wasn't marked on the piste map, and because it melded into the terrain, it was difficult to find / follow unless someone showed it to you. So, far fewer users.
But if you get a chance this year, give it a go - just remember to bail rather than try for the "whoopee doos" at the end if things get a little out of hand!
But what's a "Piste Alpina" - at the bottom of Plagnettes?
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JimW, the main boardercross course is indeed alongside the top of Plan Verte - but closed off today. It's now much more obvious - the big flags at the start kinda give it away. No obvious terrain works for the new reservoir, but obviously it's all covered in (lots) of snow. No idea what the "piste alpina" is, even though I've just skied on/passed it!?
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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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Snow conditions much the same today, with yet another lovely blue sky. And the Milka Cow was still doing his rounds...
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rob@rar, Sounds lovely. Very jealous of my brother arriving there tonight for New Year. Watch out for 3 crazy boarders & skiing S-I-L
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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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Anyone know what the NF of Bellcote is like with the link closed?
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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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rob@rar, JimW,
A warning to the very flat bit around that lift  Alpine/Nordic skiing/polling?
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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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gwaelod, on your piste map (which is great for me to salivate over until 2nd Feb!), what do the orange diamonds mean? Unpisted blacks, a gesture to USA or something more scientific?
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gwaelod, from memories of last year, the diamonds seem to tie up with likely mogulfields, hence unpisted. The one that doesn't fit is the Fond Blanc above the snow park, which always seems to be mogulled.
Can't wait for a month's time. I'm in the doghouse cos I've been more excited about it than Xmas for the three children. Oh well, bygones 
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General question: with the Vanoise being shut and the Paradiski skipass not being sold, will a 6 day Les Arcs pass get me a free or discounted day at Espace Killy, Ste Foy, etc?
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| sproggski wrote: |
| General question: with the Vanoise being shut and the Paradiski skipass not being sold, will a 6 day Les Arcs pass get me a free or discounted day at Espace Killy, Ste Foy, etc? |
Yes. The lifty pass office told me that it would give you a day in Espace Killy or (and?) Trois Vallee free of charge. But confirm this before making firm plans as the person I spoke to didn't have great English so I might have misunderstood.
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geri, What did your husband think of the run from the NF Bellecote? You are right it can only be done from the La Plagne side
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Despite it not having snowed for more than two weeks the pistes are holding up really well, although busy sections and those pistes below 1800m are getting hard-packed and icy. Fortunately the cold weather since the last snowfall is keeping things in relatively good nick, with the snowline down to the valley floor.
More snow would be nice, and would freshen up the good snow depths that we have for this time of year. The forecast is for snow showers at some point in the next 48 hours, with continued low temperatures.
Didn't see the Milka Cow today. Maybe he's grazing other slopes...?
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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 wish he'd come to Tignes.
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Spikyhedgehog, A SHE surely 
rob@rar, The La Rosiere site is showing the runs down to Seez as open. It may be a mistake, but I cannot recall seeing that before.
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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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Pervert
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Report from Plan Peisey is that it was very quiet this afternoon Snow good, but off piste all skied out, I'm told.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| geri wrote: |
| Report from Plan Peisey is that it was very quiet this afternoon Snow good, but off piste all skied out, I'm told. |
Saturday, so it was fairly quiet all around the resort. Tomorrow will be different.
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gwaelod,
I am thinking there was a weather station type thingy around about there last year, and also a marked off area - as if they were measuring 'real' snow depths that were not affected by bashers or skiers / boarders. Long-term trend analysis perhaps... on an unadulterated piece of 'alpine land' ?
rob@rar: leave some for us! - less than two weeks now, assuming BAA don't cock it up completely for everyone.
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JimW, 8 days, 10 hours 45 mins till I see 2000. Shall be looking closely for Piste Alpina 
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Snowed a little overnight, just a few centimetres. I don't think it will do much to change skiing conditions as it's not much more of a dusting from what I can see at resort level.
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Lovely photo, rob@rar. Candidate for next year's snowHead's cards/calendar?
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FAQ
Not even set her run up in La Plagne yet 
