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I arrive Tuesday. Any rain?
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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?
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Having cruised around the area for the past few days - in general most pistes have a good base and should last through next week. Skiable down to 1100m although it's pretty sticky and granular low down.
Still some decent conditions on the higher pistes around Flaine and Samoens.
Pistes are very quiet - and lift queues minimal - which is great. But unfortunately this has led to the lift company closing a few lifts as the season starts to wind down. E.g. in the Flaine bowl the following drags are closed - Veret, Lapiaz, Aujon. All the buttons have been taken off Veret so it's not going to restart even if there's a mega dump of snow and a huge influx of visitors.
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Bit misty this morning (read could not see a dam thing at times!)
managed to ski all the way down to vercland, during lunch time even if it was rather narrow and stoney /muddy near the bottom. snow softened loads during the day, timalets on the way back was fun if a bit sticky. Very quiet, after 12 it was empty, knee gave up at 3, so off home, roll on tomorrow.
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Excellent very quiet day, cold this morning with a dusting of snow, everything was rather hard first thing, if it was not groomed it rattled your teeth!
Blues down to Coulouvrier were very pleasant, and empty.................
Just could not believe how quiet it was for a Sunday.........
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Worth coming to flaine tomorrow? Got a free ticket on my cham season pass that still needs using...
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To confirm, it was! Snow off from Platieres was lovely and we skied down to Samoens 1600 on lovely stuff. Excellent use of a last free ticket 
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Understand the Austrian ski team hire Flaine out this week. Fresh of 20 cm Thursday.
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Link going straight to Google Maps on my i-Phone. Is there much new being constructed?
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@BAN, They have been published on google maps, hence the links are to there.
nothing new we have seen yet, but we have not been everywhere yet
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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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@Zorrac, is the K Lounge open then? Like the piccies, thanks for posting. Interesting to see if you gt up to the Tete. We won't be over until August, so ti s lovely to see the blue skies now.
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@Cheesie168, They have red brollies outside today, so I assume it is open, we did the sept freres walk today, It is very quiet this week, lots of people did the JPP cycle event and then went home.
One of the classic views in les carroz, that is part of the Sept Freres walk
http://bit.ly/googlemapsLeChaletdedTronchets
and top of molliets lift
http://bit.ly/googlemapstopofmoilletschairlift
there are lots of others attached to the google maps Project Access account if you want to look 
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You know it makes sense.
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Doing Corbalanche tomorrow, so that will include Tete Des Saix, early when it is cool..........hopefully
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I wonder what building activity at the bottom of Le Lac is all about? New reservoir for the snow canons? Seems a bit daft to place it there.
Glad to see the entrance to Coulouvrier from the Samoens side getting property sorted. Never bothered me personally, but it would be nice to relieve the Marmottes a bit during a busy period.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In les carroz as far as lift work goes I forgot about the timalets drag lift, they have cut all its cables, had to walk over them walking down and I think they may be moving the base station, as the walkway from the new super expensive apartments is right behind it. Hopefully they are not getting rid of it???
Picture of the top of the DMC in Flaine, lots of snow in pockets, with Mont Blanc behind. Taken from the top of Corbalanche.
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Oh good photos thank you. We walked up and back and had lunch at Igloo today. Spotted what seemed to be work on the runs down, to the Colouvier (sp), or was that wishful thinking?
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@Cheesie168, Pleased you like the photos. They were working on those runs back in July, the new steep red from the Samoens side that was closed most of last season, they were digging up rocks from the top part.
another photo, this time bottom of bergin chair in Morillon
https://goo.gl/maps/zsCzgB2B4834c18y5
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Has been rather warm, but we have been doing a few more pictures
Top of rhodos red, near the top of Plein Soleil chair
https://goo.gl/maps/NAxkaBSFw2h5zsLY8
and a little way up the green, looking over the snowmaking lake
https://goo.gl/maps/kVxXHN3GsSVtbKSPA
if you click on the "three sixty sphere" in the top right corner there are lots more of them.
On the lift front, the drag Kedeuze, with the elbow in it is all in bits on its side, hopefully they are fixing it as it was always breaking down last season.
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Went on a walk to Samoens, and came back up the chariande express, and this is a large snowmaking lake that is now near completion, a photo I took earlier in july, its all lined now.
also the new rocky red Corne from the samoens side down to the Coulouvrier lift has been graded alot
The new fence alongside perce neige is finished, and they have cut down alot of trees to the left of it as you go down to the top of the molliets chair. They were running tete des saix lift as well as Coulouvrier yesterday.
on Les carroz news, have been told that Les Airelles hotel is going to be flattened and a new one built, it has stopped doing evening meals, (Restaurant seems closed, but is still running B&B with people staying there)
Massive thunderstorm clouds over the mountain now, so should be a show later?
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Oh thanks for that, looking good
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Yeah thanks @Zorrac, looking forward to it already
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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@Freestyle, Hi, It is just as you come off what used to be the last pitch of agile noir, but is now off piste, so you would come down agile noir on to dahu, and you carry straight on., it is the area at the end of that, just to the left as you go up the lift.
I would think that little gully is still there.
Don't know anything about a new blue as have not walked over that far.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Freestyle, Back home now...to a leaking pipe
The new lift is part of the re-vamping of Sixt, not sure it has got permission yet, but would be surprised it has been scrapped as Sixt have got rid of all the higher lifts in their little ski area.
one more picture, top of Zorta, the red going down to Gron
https://goo.gl/maps/e37b8ASyQR5L7D7M6
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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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Went on a walk to Samoens, and came back up the chariande express, and this is a large snowmaking lake that is now near completion, a photo I took earlier in july, its all lined now.
also the new rocky red Corne from the samoens side down to the Coulouvrier lift has been graded alot
The new fence alongside perce neige is finished, and they have cut down alot of trees to the left of it as you go down to the top of the molliets chair. They were running tete des saix lift as well as Coulouvrier yesterday.
on Les carroz news, have been told that Les Airelles hotel is going to be flattened and a new one built, it has stopped doing evening meals, (Restaurant seems closed, but is still running B&B with people staying there)
Massive thunderstorm clouds over the mountain now, so should be a show later? |
Shame about the new snowmaking lake as it will kill a nice little technical off piste segment... ah well...
As to Sixt-Flaine - it hasn't been killed at all. However, quite a few locals are actually against it, saying that closing the higher area and turning it over to randonees is a chance for Sixt to reboot its image. Their argument goes along the lines that in 20yrs time skiing even at the higher altitude of Gers would be questionable. On the other hand Sixt and the area are very quaint and unspoiled. Let them build on that, by expanding into sustainable, nature friendly tourism. Having skied and hiked extensively around Gers and the valleys around, I can kind of see their point. I certainly don't want to see Tarquin and Alfie arriving in Sixt...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Don't Tarquins and Alfies head to Chamonix rather than the GM?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Freestyle, no, Les Gets.
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Hey you Grand Massif 20/21 guys, where are you? Your absence has been noted over on the PdS thread, there must be someone over there who can get this season's thread started (or have you all fallen down an off-piste sink-hole  )??
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