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| TommyDazzler, good to hear, I'm using ski lifts on Sunday. bookham_mat, think we will be all right for snow, but am guessing it will be pretty hard packed on the pistes. Forecast is for sunny days until wednesday. Fingers crossed for some snow at some point soon. |
We're also using Ski-Lifts on Sunday!
You're not on Swissair LX361 as well, are you?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tomsk,  Yes I am !!!!!! Leaves at 10.40am See you on the plane or in the transfer bus. Will be with my wife and 5 month old little girl. Hope she isn't too noisy on her first ski trip!!! Where are you staying in Morzine?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Tomsk, Now we have the same number of posts as well.
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Happy New Year everyone.  Having a great time in Morzine. The weather has been a bit changeable since we got here and it has felt positvely spring like at times but was very cold for the first couple of days. As Lou says, some of the the runs are getting a bit thin in places and quite icy. The back side of Mont Chery seems reasonably OK but the front side is patchy. The best skiing seems to be had first thing in the morning. By lunchtime the queues are building up and the queue for the Chavannes chair the other day was huge. Luckily it moved fairly quickly. It would be nice to get some more snow now.
Fab lunch again today with Lou and her family this time at La Grande Ourse. One of my favourite restaurants here. We went for a little ski afterwards but unfortunately little geetee was involved in a collision with a Frenchman. Very scary moment for me when I turned back to check on her and saw this bloke land on top of her. Luckily she was OK and recovered quickly. Lou was a complete star and I'm so glad she was there to help.
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Hi Lou,
So in short, Mont Chery shagged, Les Gets needs more snow because it's generally icy and thin in places. Don't even think about St Jean D'Aulps.
Avoriaz is just about holding up, Les Crosets has never really got going this season and the snow in the Plaine Dranse area is dreadful. (My opinion). It looks like rain from the 5th. The worst start to the season for three (?) years me thinks.
Don't even mention the off piste.
Happy days 
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zzz, Oh no! doom and gloom. This news is a bit depressing, please let us know if it improves. If not dont bother 
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cardweg,
We've used Ski Lifts a quite a lot and always been brilliant. We are using them again next week for 14 of us and it's worked out cheaper than car hire.
More Euros for Vin Chaud!!!
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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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No, just being honest. If you don't mind skiing on boiler plate and you have a set of rock hoppers then it's fine. Meteo chamonix forecasting three days of rain from the fifth, up to 2200m. Still it might soften the pistes up a bit.
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You know it makes sense.
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I would get a pass for Avoriaz and forget about Les Gets and Morzine. This is for a couple of reasons.
1. Currently the skiing in Avoriaz is beautiful while the skiing in Morzine and Les Gets is solid Ice. If/when this changes http://morzineweather.com does a video update so you can see for yourself and make a informed decision on the pass you buy.
2. Your next to the Super Morzine lift. Its a perfect location for skiing Avoriaz.
Hope this helps.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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morzineweather, all the rain coming in the next few days will make it worse I expect
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Anyone know what Mont Chery is like at the moment, thinking of taking a group up there tomorow, or any better suggestions from Les Gets?
If anyone fancies a ski and sees me about I am wearing a bright Yellow/green Schoefel jacket and may be going quickly, would be great to be accosted by a 
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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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cardweg, we've just had to rebook a transfer after this evenings EZY cancellation from Bristol. Alpy Bus were helpful but had no capacity, but Rolling Road (Richard) extremely helpful, 30 euros /head, +33 633 174 4852, we're on for tomorrow
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Mountain Haddock,
Cheers for the info.
Hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow & the delay doesn't detract too much from your trip.
Enjoy!.
CW
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Lou, Thanks for that, may head for Avoriaz if the cloud stays like this.
Morzine wasn't much cop yesterday,
The bowl was acceptable although there were loads of surface stones at Chamossiere, will hhead up that way this morning and then Avoriaz tommorrow..
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Chattonmill,
Most pistes in Avoriaz in pretty good shape and some excellent snow on Fornet and Combe de Machon if you like steeper unpisted.
Spent all day yesterday in sunshine above the clouds.
Bob
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15 Eur for an afternoon pass in Bernex to find my skiing legs before a PdS attack tomorrow . Pistes better than expected given the reports re Les Gets. Good snow all the way down to the carpark and the pistes deserted apart for the main run down from Pre Richard due to a regional ski championship. Once above the cloud, nice and warm with excellent views of the PdS over to Mont Blanc
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I'd agree that the snow is far from brilliant, but IMHO the rain last Christmas / New Year made that start much worse.
Yes, there's ice, bare patches and surface rocks. But after a week of fairly hard skiing my skis aren't that badly scratched and I don't have any core shots. Having skied in Les Houches and Flaine the conditions there are worse.
I completely agree that the best snow to be found is the consolidated off-piste above around 1700m. Unfortunately for zzz it's skiing like nice grippy piste.
The worst snow is probably the off-piste between 1300m and 1700m where meadow gives way to more rocky terrain and coverage isn't good enough to protect your skis.
Mogul hounds will find plenty to amuse themselves.
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The bowl in Les Gets was fine yesterday, although a little bare in places, Chevrelles especially should be avoided. Generally tended towards icy, but some nice patches in places.
Saying that clocked 61.6 mph on Tulipe when it was clear.
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Just back from a week in Champoussin/Crosets/PdS
Cold and mostly sunny, snow not overly deep, generally good but several unexplained brown patches (and i mean brown) some of them quite high up. it seems the wind has blown the snow off the more unprotected ridges before it could "stick".
Quite a few runs not pisted and have become impromptu mogul fields, link between Crosets and Champoussin also very poorly pisted, basically rounded a corner to find an unpisted hillside with seven or eight sets of tracks to choose from ...
Had a good day on Thursday across to Les Gets, Ranfolly bowl in mostly good condition, a few icy patches were developing.
No sign of snowfall until yesterday morning, an inch or so for us to drive through on our way to the airport (GVA the usual bunfight but that's another story)
But I also remember the rain last New Year. Let's see if it manifests itself later this week or not.
Oh and to add insult to injury we have had three inches of lovely fluffy snow in Lincolnshire this morning.
Cheers Tim
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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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freedom, now that they are old enough to be left for a bit
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Wait til they (or you) are old enough that they leave you at home and go out into the fog without you! 
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Avoriaz would have been nicer if we could have seen anything, was a bit white.
Afternoon conditons were better with a small sprinkling on top making it fun.
Saying that it was busy, Chatel and Plaine Drainse especially full.
Looking forward to Skiing Les Gets/Morzine tommorrow.
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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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sanman, it's probably because that I am so old that I don't want to waste ski time (or PDS pass) Lightweights.....
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'm heading out to Les Gets on the 16th Jan. Just noticed all the rain forecast this week, which is rather alarming, should I be worried about lack of snow? Got a bit spoilt in Tignes last year with all the amazing powder off piste! Bit worried I'm going to roll up to a icy resort devoid of snow!
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Chattonmill, Glad I gave Chatel a miss if that was the case. Interesting day in Thollon for me. Lots of snow in the village but poor snow depths up top. Looks like most snow had been blown off the mountain by the wind. Managed to get above the mist but below the clouds so not to bad a session. Clouds getting darker in the west as the day went on so a change to warm and wet weather in the next few days. Looks like I will be going home early 
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Tordi, be prepared to get yourself up to Avoriaz. Very early to say, but there looks like some snow after the rain? Ironically the rain might just help reduce some of the sheet ice If the resort is struggling then they would normally lay on buses to Avoriaz but fingers crossed you won't need to.
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Tordi, we didn't find any sheet ice today, the odd patch here and there, and some warmth to soften the snow won't go amiss, just hope the freezing level is lower than forecast and sl less rain. And yes its a holiday. Just off to watch Morzine vs Angers in the national ice hockey semi-final. Thats sheet ice, blood and violence.
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Les gets was great this morning, made the mistake of going to Mont Chery this afternoon.
Unless it snows, do not chance Mt Chery!
Will be blasting about Friday if anyone fancies it, hoping that the forecast is wrong and the rain will be snow!
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Chattonmill, Meteo Chamonix is persisting in saying the snow line will be 900m tomorrow am and up to 1600m later, so possible to ski high in the snow tomorrow, but Friday is another day. Ranfolly particularly nice today, with fine views over Mt Blanc. The blue back to Morzine also still in good nick, some of the other return pistes look more dodgy though.
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Chattonmill, Meteo Chamonix is persisting in saying the snow line will be 900m tomorrow am and up to 1600m later, so possible to ski high in the snow tomorrow, but Friday is another day. Ranfolly particularly nice today, with fine views over Mt Blanc. The blue back to Morzine also still in good nick, some of the other return pistes look more dodgy though.
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Chattonmill, Meteo Chamonix is persisting in saying the snow line will be 900m tomorrow am and up to 1600m later, so possible to ski high in the snow tomorrow, but Friday is another day. Ranfolly particularly nice today, with fine views over Mt Blanc. The blue back to Morzine also still in good nick, some of the other return pistes look more dodgy though.
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Total rain destruction forecast for Morz and Les Gets pistes. Arriving Sunday so Hoping for a miracle....
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Chattng to peeps at La Grande Ourse, they feel the same. The snowpark has moved from there over to the other side - maybe this has made them less likely to help, not sure. There is a petition in the village to reinstate it on Mont Chery.
). Quick "warm up" at Lhottys before a delicious blast back down Chavannes which was by then nearly deserted.
I notice the snow forecast after the rain, but I guess things are so changeable in January its probably too early to tell what will happen. Lets hope all this rain just falls as snow, and I roll up to metres of pow! Fingers crossed!!! I guess if there is no snow, the only thing for us to do is to hunker down in the chalet with a crate of beer. Not sooooo bad 