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Metalhead132, Great piccy from Cerler. The snow covered tables and benches look like modern art at the Tate.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pic from grau roig today,
Morato piste; this slope were closed until today:
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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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thats some serious powder !!!!
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After such a long snow drought in Andorra it's great to see it has finally come
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metalhead132, What camera are you using to take those big pictures?
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Thu 22-03-07 20:03; edited 1 time in total
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mmmm this pics are not mine.They are taken for members of spanish meteorology forum.
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metalhead132, 4th picture down, is that an iglu with a number plate? EU rules have gone mad 
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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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After a week of almost solid snow the resorts around us have the best snow of the year by far. Some resorts report over a metre and a half of Powder in places with base depths around or about a metre. Heavy tonight and over the weekend will make this a memorable end to the season.
Fantastic snow at Superbagneres, Peyragudes and Baqueira Beret. I took this at lunchtime yesterday before the snow started falling again.
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Baqueira 2500; fresh snow:
20-03-2007 70cm
21-03-2007 65cm
22-03-2007 15cm
23-03-2007 35cm
24-03-2007 60cm
TOTAL until this morning 245cm, and still snowing
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You know it makes sense.
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metalhead132, I'm so very happy for you guys that you've had this wonderful snowfall. AlTom must be in heaven, and maybe you can get some good powder practice so in LDA we can all ski together if there is powder that day!
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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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Easiski; yes, finally it's here!!! We have lot's of powder, and we have 3 weeks to enjoy!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Buufffff.BIG weekend....... Memorable days
It was a powder festival!!! On Friday, we had in Andorra another foot of new snow overnight, so saturday morning all runs had 30cm (or more) of new snow!! People with intermediate level thinked: How I can ski with this amount of snow?? So...back home! And the festival starts!!
The first hour we did some laps in the powdery runs, and then the forests call us!  Knee deep between the trees, and knee deep with a skis with 92mm underfoot!! In some places more than knee deep....... 
I remember this forest one week before without snow  and now my pole (120cm) is completely covered by fresh snow!!
We spended all day under powder, jumping rocks, cornices..... If the heaven exists is similar than saturday...
Started at 9.00 and finished at 17.00, 8h with only 20min stop..... I literally spended 8h eating powder!!! 
It snowed all day, so on Sunday we can repeat the powder eating!! We had to look for more difficult acces spots that weren't touch the day before
Sorry, no pics, I didn't have the cam.....
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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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The "little" problem for me is that this time I can't to taste it, as in 8 hours we will depart to Val Thorens and the Espace Killy, until next Monday....maybe this snow can settle a little and make a "base" for next weeks precipitations, so ski until the end of April..... I hope
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Snowed here last night (Bareges), the avalanche risk is dropping as the Isotherm drops to 900m today - so the resort is likely to be fully open, snow showers and sun through the day, all pistes pisted. Thankfully the predictions for the end of the week have changed to an Isotherm (0 degree line) at around 2100m rather than 3000m
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An amazing turnaround in conditions for the Pyrennes
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Hi all,
Off to Pas de la casa on thursday for the day from Toulouse. Anyone's got info on conditions/weather????
Cheers in advance.
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Well,
We managed to enjoy ourselves in Grau Roig on Thursday but it was raining/dumping wet snow during most of the afternoon. That was making the good snow coverage quite sticky.
I don't know what it's like this WE but it could reall go either way for the next few days...
I think it's better to get as much skiing in as soons as possible just in case it all goes wrong...
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Finally the forecast was wrong.....it's amazing the difficult to do the forecast in this kinf of situation, with a little depression in Mediterranean sea....1 day before the forecast was WRONG!!!!!
It rain, YES, it snow, YES, but did it with less, far less, intensity. The precipitation was maybe only a 1/4 part that the local forecast say....
The snow limit raise til 2100-2200, but as the precipitation was less, the snow still remain at 2000m.
Todays was the closing date in all Andorra resorts and a lot of catalan resorts (some of then closed just on past Monday; after holidays), so now I think that it's only possible to ski in 2 or 3 little resorts in all the pyrenees.......
The snow quality is very wet at ALL altitudes and orientations with not much cm and some patches.....so bad conditions....
Here the people is already thinking in the "beach season"  If I can I'll do a fast forward to the next november......
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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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AlTom, metalhead132, thanks for your updates all season - much appreciated. Looking forward to next season already !
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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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Just had a look at this http://www.grandvalira.com/gv/webcam.asp?key=26
I remember 25 or so years ago having to dig a channel out for the 2 man chair in Soldeu on the first week in May. In those days it didn't cost much in terms of manning levels to keep the mountain open, but now it is so vast that it takes probably more to man it than there would be skiers!!!
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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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Great pictures AlTom!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It's great to be able to report snow in May, but where was it all season! It's like waiting for buses, there is nonee for ages and then two turn up.
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FAQ
It looks better for you than for us, that's for sure. But it is raining here in LDA right now...
