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skimottaret, a sobering tale. Sounds like a lucky escape. Was it someone on one of Phil's courses?
Glad you had a good day on Saturday - it looked like an epic one as I was driving to Les Arcs! Not quite the best week for race training, but from the sound of it fun was had by all.
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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, Very, very lucky and he seemed to want to blame it on everyone else but himself. The boarder that caused it above him, the ESF instructor that skied to help him , called the pisteures but left to take his two students out of harms way and didnt dig him out.... the pisteurs for charging him 650 Euros for the recovery (no Carre neige)...
Wasnt on a course but was an "expert" skier......
Bluebird on the last day but we didnt need to go off piste as there was tons of fresh snow everywhere. 
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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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rob@rar, Very, very lucky and he seemed to want to blame it on everyone else but himself. The boarder that caused it above him, the ESF instructor that skied to help him , called the pisteures but left to take his two students out of harms way and didnt dig him out.... the pisteurs for charging him 650 Euros for the recovery (no Carre neige)...
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Sounds like he deserves a slap. On the L1 course last week we discussed that exact scenario (you are teaching and see an avy victim - what is your responsibility to your clients). The ESF guy did the right thing.
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skimottaret,
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was an "expert" skier
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hurrumphh
Lucky barsteward more like
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OK...its been updated now...145cm at resort level now 
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skimottaret, I saw people taking some really stupid lines on Saturday too. I stayed on the Palafour/Palet side in the morning then bumped into some friends in the lift queue after lunch and went up Toviere. I didn't bother skiing yesterday, might go out this afternoon though.
If it is any consolation, the glacier is still closed so nobody is getting any training done. Maybe get up there on Wednesday.
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rjs, although had a great week we only managed 5 runs in the gates, might have to be austria next year....
i think i saw you on the toviere run in the afternoon, it was quite nice...and it was good to meet you by the way..
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skimottaret, i saw a guy being chased by an avalanche on saturday - I was on the palafour lift. have to say all around the palafour was skied out by sat afternoon - nutters.
no skiing today - avalanche closed the road up to le lac and blizzarding all morning.
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skimottaret, Some friends are on a race training course in Pitztal this week, I will let you know if they had any better luck with the weather.
It was good to meet you (and GrahamN) too.
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Out to the left of the Tichot towards Le Lac was/is waist deep.
Awesomeness.
Vis is awful, whiteout. Still snowing.
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Can't see it too well on this photo but it's dumping it down.
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Great picture....sooooooooo wish i was out there at the moment.
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Does anyone ken if the links to Val D are open ? If not when they will be opening!?
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You know it makes sense.
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dave_wick, They are open. I can't see from my window, but both the Aeroski and Tufs were running when I came in for lunch.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I take it you just nip up the aero ski and then go over the other side keep going and you land in Val D?
Wouldnt think i had been there twice before! lol
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Poster: A snowHead
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dave_wick, yep, just ski down past tommeuses and you'll end up in La Daille
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Off to study the piste map!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nice tree skiing on the way down to La Daille.
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Nice tree skiing on the way down to La Daille.
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Less chance of slides then!
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I take it you just nip up the aero ski and then go over the other side keep going and you land in Val D?
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Not quite true, La Daille isn't Val D proper, you have to either take the Funival back up from La Daille to the top of the Bellvarde(sp) or take from near the bottom of Tommouse / Creux run the Mont Blanc and another lift to near the top of the Bellvarde(sp) and then you have three options, the Face (black), Santons (blue / red / dead bodies) or Epaule Charvet (probably a shade more black) and then you're into Val D proper.
Edited once for accuracy on where the Mont Blanc is....
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im going to tignes at christmas ive been before a few years ago and was wondering if they have replaced the old Tignes-val d'isere link, it was those 2 slow two man chairlifts when i was there used to spend an hour trying to get up it. Did they ever implement the 8 man they were planning on doing?
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Tom Lowe, do you mean the link from Val to Tignes? One of them, the Tommeuses chair up to Toviere, is an 8-pack.
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Mrs W, lovely photo - blue skies, great snow, empty pistes! Wish I were still there...
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Yeah, todays conditions were pretty fantastic. Tried to get to Le Fornet but couldn't quite make it as the return lifts weren't running. 
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Isn't there bus from Val to Tignes after the lifts close? If you do reach Le Fornet you could always ski all the way down ad get the bus back into Val then take the cable car up to the top of Bellvarde
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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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| Isn't there bus from Val to Tignes after the lifts close? If you do reach Le Fornet you could always ski all the way down ad get the bus back into Val then take the cable car up to the top of Bellvarde |
Could've done, just didn't fancy waiting for the bus. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Spikyhedgehog, tell George that he is a tart. How could he miss out on today?????
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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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He lies.
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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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| nbt wrote: |
| Isn't there bus from Val to Tignes after the lifts close? If you do reach Le Fornet you could always ski all the way down ad get the bus back into Val then take the cable car up to the top of Bellvarde |
This isn't just any old bus service it's the "train rouge" -probably the best bus service in the world.
I stayed most of a seson or two in Le Fornet, so I've fond memories of that bus service, especially when we missed the last one back to Le Fornet on a few nights.
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This isn't just any old bus service it's the "train rouge" -probably the best bus service in the world.
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Which has always confused me, as it is neither a train nor is it red 
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indeed. Bu in any case, le petit train rouge only runs in Val d'isere (and satellite villages like Le Fornet and La daille) - I was actually thinking of a bus from Val d'Isere round to Tignes Le Lac, which Iwas told leaves at about 5.30pm to repatriate skiiers who miss the last lift - or am I making thiings up?
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nbt, There is such a bus, never needed to use it though.
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Looks like there were a couple of fairly large slides on the south side of the valley today from the look of one of the web cams in Tignes.net....hope no one caught in them....
Weather looks amazing though...cant wait till 25th Jan !
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There were a few crazy people doing the Lavachet wall this morning. About 2 or 3 slides set off. 
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Spikyhedgehog, People were skiing over the avalance debris under Grattalu as well.
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