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Forecast seems to be for light snow showers over the next 3 days which is predicted to amount to not much of significance in terms of conditions but you never know it may up to something worthwhile.
The good news it's cold and little in the way of wind.
Sounds very good for piste skiing but not so good for off piste.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Layne, off piste within the resort area is for masochists only.
Whether the North Face or similar runs are worthwhile, I've no idea.
The cold is a mixed blessing.
It does help preserve what we've got, but all pistes now are improved by a little softening from some careful warming.
Champagny side was lovely on Wednesday in the sunshine, but today was cloudy and colder and just not as much fun.
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@Jonpim, yeah I know what you mean. When my kids were very young the wife gave me the nod to go on a boys trip. As I'd missed a season or so so was really looking forward to it. But it didn't snow all week but was cold and grey. It was better than being in the office but really not a trip I have particularly fond memories of.
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This Saturday morning indicated the end of school holidays. A lot of people are leaving the resort. We will too soon for some time. Today however, there is an Esf giant slalom competition in Montalbert for ski instructors only where my boyfriend is participating. We took the wonderful corduroy down from aime 2000 at 8.30 to get to Montalbert, where there is nice music and breakfast on offer to start the day. It feels super festive here this morning. Let's see how the competition goes  all happy after these wonderful first tracks and enjoying the sun and smiles
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Lovely conditions today, the pistes are holding up surprisingly well, not too many queues around – didn’t have to wait more than a few minutes it in the lift so all in all a good day skiing
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Still nothing from the sky showing in the 6 day forecast but temps still lowish.
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Heading out for a long weekend with a couple of mates on 18th March - hopefully a top up of snow before then please 
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YUGE app : is it me or is it even worse than ever this year. Loses whole days of stats randomly, then makes up other days. I skied over 10,000 metres of vertical yesterday according to it. The badges are completely random AFAICS.
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@eblunt, I can't say as I use it much. Only useful thing is to get pictures from these fun lift picture points. Also used it to do Saturday skiing extension but even that fckd up my daughters pass (which may not be Yuge but the pass system that sits behind it).
I use Ski Tracks for monitoring my skiing.
The badge thing is meh.
It's supposed to be good for checking on queue times and where to avoid but I've never really done this - if you know the place well you know the pinch points/times anyhow.
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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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Layne, i suppose the upgrade to a 10 person cabin is welcome, but does cut off easy access to a lot of popular off- piste runs, and the Chiaupe black run.
As for Yuge: the lift queue measure is usually helpful. But lift opening not so. Indicated yesterday Col de Forcle open (at last). It wasn't.
I've no interest on tracking distance or speed. Can't see the point.
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You know it makes sense.
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The top of Col de Forcle isn't great, encourages people to release early if they are going back down the adjacent piste as you are otherwise faced with 40m of slight uphill gradient.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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But, Col de Forcle is a great way for getting to the Champagny lifts from 1800 while avoiding Plagne Centre and Bellecote.
And for getting home from Arpette side if Colosses is rammed.
Yesterday there was a great big roll of cable beside the bottom station, so maybe the main cable is the problem. Not just little job then.
Yuge says its open today. I bet it isn't.
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Poster: A snowHead
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New piste? Elphemere next to Tome - saw it today but it’s not on piste map AFAICS
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@BoardieK, yes there is a lot of incentive to release earlier  as you say after pylône 10 to avoid the flat part, and it's also especially tempting / very difficult to hold on Friday afternoon when there is usually parallel slalom on the bottom part of the stade de slalom and the perches are just extremely slippery and do sometimes glide out of our hands around pylône 5 @Jonpim, yes!! It's also the best for exactly the reasons you mention. Hopefully it stays +- active for a long time.
Ironically, while the col de forcle is out, I'm out too at the moment with an ACL reconstruction. On the first of February I fell and apparently tore the ACL in my left knee. On the second of February I succeeded the slalom Test Technique, the entry exam to the French ski instructor system, so it turned out to be a positive 24 hours anyways. My ACL got reconstructed today. I won't be skiing anymore this season, I might still spend some time arranging things in La Plagne though, we'll see.
And next winter season I will go to the next exam in november in Tignes: Cycle Préparatoire, and once succeeded, start teaching in La Plagne for the season in French / Dutch / English I am already a Belgian ski instructor since 2016. Sooo I will be around a bit on this thread next season as well
Hope you all enjoyed yet another sunny March day to the fullest!
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@Layne, With the new glacier gondola I presume they get rid of the two chairlifts up there.
It’s still a lot of work for one red run ( as the two blacks are always shut )
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Anyone want to estimate the chance of a fresh snow dump before the season ends? Not looking good next week... Really wanna ski cairn again
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@telarid, 100%
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Layne, agree.
But could be April rather than March.
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How are the pistes holding up? We arrive on Friday!
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chopkins13, pistes were lovely yesterday. We had some of our best ever runs down to La Roche and Montalbert: few other skiers, sunshine, and warmer temperature added some softness.
BUT, the continued increasing warming will take its toll ( possibly up to lower teens by Wednesday), so may be the odd brown patch by Friday.
Even so, I reckon you will still have lots of fun.
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Thanks @Jonpim, as long as it’s still fun then I’ll be happy! Happy to take “spring soft” over “hard ice” any day!
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Can anyone advise me of on piste restaurants with open fires please. This has become a new pre-condition of the lunch that has been imposed on me
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@eblunt, Day time or evening? If evening which area are you staying in?
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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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@boredsurfin, how often do you have lunch in the evening?
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eblunt, with temperatures rising to 10C, unlikely you will find any open fires.
It's Spring!
Time for t-shirts and sandles 
(P.S. the Open Fire stipulation seems a great way to save money. With no acceptable piste-side restaurants it will have to be pic-nic and sandwiches)
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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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Hello all,
Could anyone let us know whether you need a ski pass for the Tyrolean drag in Belle Plagne this year? I seem to remember that it didn't in previous years. Thanks.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Well, well! Against all odds, snowed last night!
Only 10mm or so, but still lying in the trees and off- main roads.
Meteoblue now pretending they had predicted it all along. Hah!
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^^^
10cm? 4 inches? Or 10mm - virtually nothing?
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However much it was it did help cover up a bit of the ice between yesterday and today
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sbooker, every little bit helps 
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Hello all,
Could anyone let us know whether you need a ski pass for the Tyrolean drag in Belle Plagne this year? I seem to remember that it didn't in previous years. Thanks. |
I had a look, it appears not. However be aware that it’s not really designed as a past free beginners lift. It’s actually quite a difficult ski off there and secondly the lifties there don’t like you cycling round and round on it.
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Indice de confiance: 1/5 . So less of a forecast, more of a vague hope.
I'll be there then so I'm hoping too.
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| eblunt wrote: |
| Pooter wrote: |
Hello all,
Could anyone let us know whether you need a ski pass for the Tyrolean drag in Belle Plagne this year? I seem to remember that it didn't in previous years. Thanks. |
I had a look, it appears not. However be aware that it’s not really designed as a past free beginners lift. It’s actually quite a difficult ski off there and secondly the lifties there don’t like you cycling round and round on it. |
Thanks, that's helpful and yes understand about not being for beginners. We get to the village late afternoon and was just wondering if we might at least get a chance to try out the hire gear before setting off in earnest the next morning
one of our party has trouble with her feet and getting the hire boots right takes time Thanks again.
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@Pooter, there is the magic carpet nearby as well, no pass needed
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@Pooter, the magic carpet suggestion from @eblunt, is a good one - to extend it, you could also wait until after the lifts close and ski down from there into Bellecote to get a feel for boots/skis etc, have a nice drink then jump in the bubble lift back up to Belle Plagne as this runs until late (11pm?) and after main lifts have closed they don’t check for lift passes from memory as it’s mostly pedestrians and those returning home from aprés. Don’t get carried away though and think you can do laps after main lifts have closed using the bubble, the lift staff have got a keen eye for people reappearing every 15 mins 
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FAQ
Must be my age. As JP says its spring very few if any will light their fires at lunchtime now. But you may be lucky and find one lit at Dinner in the evening.