 Poster: A snowHead
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| FlyingStantoni wrote: |
| The good news is that it looks like a superficial tear. So a week out of action, not a month. |
Fingers crossed - I'm a martyr to calf injuries. Was in (for me) the best marathon shape of my life in 2009 and tore a calf muscle in late Feb. Then had six weeks off running exactly when I should have been doing 20 milers every weekend. Rode my bike instead and managed a respectable time in the April. Lesson for me was (as with Yorkshire puddings) - don't keep testing it. Lots of RICE, self massage (oo err) and take it easy when you start again.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks for the replies guys. 7 weeks to go.
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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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well that was a strange day. Skied Chapelle D Abondance, Torgon , Morgins and Super Chatel and it was like a late March day rather than early January. Snow was heavy and slushy until the sun went down and the lower pistes were suffering for it with mud patches starting to show.
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BergenBergen, it was indeed a strange day. We were up on Mt Chery when it opened, lovely and hard pistes and glorious sunshine. Stopped off for hot chocolate about 10.45 and when we came out of the GO there were grey clouds, by the time we eventually got back to the car in Les Get about 12.15 there were spots of rain. Snow really changed during the course of the morning and getting heavy.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Nearly relegated to page 2, can't be having that now can we! Lovely day today, hordes seem to have disappeared if you get away from the main thoroughfares. Some lovely snow to be found this morning if you looked for it and sunshine all day. Snow still in good condition, but some south facing lower slopes could do with a bit of a top up. Looks like being pretty warm until the tail end of next week, when it will cool considerably and more snow will arrive.
Bob
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I'll be over in Morzine/Avoriaz at the week-end. Cannot wait!
Some forecasts are promising a bit snow from Thursday night. I hope it'll materialise!
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We're off to Les Gets on Saturday, so i'm hoping for more snow by the end of this week!
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Great day in Les Gets today - snow on the pistes very good this afternoon, Melezes, Tulipe, etc and the difference in the number of people around... how good that they have all gone home! No more cars parked all over the village in stupid places - there were a load of French in the Rosta bowl this afternoon in all with a lot of fur trimming on their suits, looked like a cloning exercise had happened. But they also had two kids amongst them in some of these fur trimmed suits and no helmets...
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| Pamski wrote: |
| ... how good that they have all gone home! |
Pleased to have been of assistance 
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marmotte16, oh not meaning you of course!!
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Temperature inversion still hanging around, 10 degrees colder in Cluses than in Morzine this lunchtime... Forecast change in conditions can't come soon enough.
Piste conditions typical spring, hard in the morning, flattering through lunch and sticky in the later afternoon. Some mud showing through down low, bare patches between pistes on Pleney but well covered higher up. Off piste hard, sun-baked and unpleasant.
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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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it's all gone a bit quiet on here.
were over next Friday,
I was wondering where the locals look for the weather / snow forecasts ?
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Neville, meteo chamonix
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You know it makes sense.
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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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And I am pleased to report that those webcams show it snowing in Chatel. 16 sleeps!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Snowing hard here too 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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One sleep (in Dijon) then Chatel 
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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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tafflondon, sounds like you may have hit the jackpot!
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It is still tipping down in Les Gets - three very buried cars to be dug out later. The early shift were out to make the most of the new conditions.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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tafflondon, tafflondon, hope you've got snow tyres or, if not, are good with the chains!
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Oooooh! Off to avoriaz tomorrow just adding a few more thermals in the luggage looking st the temps. Friends kids are so excited one was sick last night lol!
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Sounds promising, it's not too soon to get excited is it?
Pam: 4WD, snow tyres and chains (I had the chains before the snow tyres and it seemed silly to leave them in the garage)
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tafflondon, all prepared then! All our cars here (us, son, SIL) have winter tyres and 4WD and chains in the boot. A friend staying in Les Gets was out in Morzine last night and managed to get back into Les Gets as it was just wet in Morzine - but then left the car, walked to where they were staying and he was going out this morning to put the chains on.
Our drive was cleared about 1.5 hours ago but looking quite deep again on the cleared area - very deep on the non-cleared part.
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not too soon to get excited is it?
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Not at all - its all part of the fun isn't it.
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Does anyone have a crystal ball to tell me if it's likely I'm going to need snow chains tomorrow around 1pm? We have winter tyres which makes a slight difference.
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My crystal ball tells me it's not forecast to snow tomorrow and the roads will have been cleared by then, so you should be fine.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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driz, brill, that saves me an hour of crawling around on the floor of the garage this evening trying to figure out how they go on. Will take them just for fun.
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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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Rocking day today, had to be 8-12 inches of fresh in Lindaret. Trees are white, Morzine looks like a ski resort again, just in time for anyone arriving tomorrow.
Sorry, we tracked out every inch of powder but I'm sure the pistes will be nice...
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Leaving for chatel tomorrow. All the above is sounding very exciting! Hopefully we won't need our snow chains on though.
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You know it makes sense.
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Powder!
Blue skies!
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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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We have winter tyres which makes a slight difference.
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proper snow tyres make a huge difference. But it's going to be a snowy week. If you don't know how to put chains on, your garage is the place to work it out, MeMyselfandI,
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Poster: A snowHead
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Woke up to about 3 inches of new snow overnight and still snowing - not expected! Quite cloudy but can just see over to Mt Chery.
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Woke up to about 3 inches of new snow overnight and still snowing - not expected!
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Ah! Meteo France got it right then, for once. We had a little overnight - maybe 2 inches, but it's stopped now and vis is not bad. My friend is going for a private lesson; fingers crossed she gets on well. They are completely new to the resort and fairly hopeless at finding their way around - I feel bad that I'm not able to do my usual "guide to lifts and pistes" job for them. By mistake yesterday - inexplicably in perfect, sparkling, visibility he took her up a long chair to the top, rather than the nursery slope chair.  He got an earbashing, I think. She did manage to get down with a few falls - I had told them there was no lift in Les Saisies where they could find themselves faced with only a difficult way down, but they'd not listened and she was petrified as the lift just went up and up!
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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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Lovely conditions in Champery yesterday, very soft fresh powder and clear blue skies, almost perfect. The only downside being that by lunchtime there were huge moguls on many runs so the afternoon was harder work, although at least the moguls themselves were pretty soft and easy. It was busy but there were no queues on any of the lifts to be of concern.
I usually start in Champery and ski over to the Avoriaz and/or Chatel area. For a change I went the other way, through Champoussin, Morgins and Super Chatel. It was a bit quieter and made a nice change, although the lift infrastructure was more basic with a lot of drags. There is also the bus links between the two sides of Morgins, and between Chatel and Linga, although I timed the buses quite well luckily.
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Spent the last 2 days in Lindarets, Avoriaz, Champoussin and Crosets areas. Still boot deep freshies to be had this afternoon in the trees above Morgins and some fantastic chopped stuff above Champoussin. Conditions got a little spicy on sunny aspects yesterday afternoon but plenty of fresh tracks above Lindarets in the morning. Great conditions throughout the area.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Visibility was a bit of an issue today. Some 60 something German couple were waist deep in powder off the side of Zore in the mist this afternoon. Conditions are holding up well although the moguls that appeared made for slow progress behind the weekend locals today.
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Just back from 3 days in PDS, The snow has been just pure bliss. We were staying on Morzine but skied only the Avoriaz/Plaine Dranse side.
Weather a bit closed in on Friday but still very much enjoyable, especially on the Plaine Dranse side where the light was not as flat.
Saturday was just perfect. Blue skies, all the powder from the Friday plus a bit more on top overnight after the pistes had been bashed. We headed towards Chavanette and to our great surprise, there were some red pistes left unbashed which means that having arrived early we proceeded to make fresh tracks in near knee deep powder on piste! We made the most of that before the crowds arrived and it got all tracked out. Then we travelled around Avoriaz for the rest of the day.
Sunday we got up expecting closed in weather again with a bit of snow. It did look like that from Morzine, but once in Avoriaz, the sun broke out and, with the pistes on the Brochaux/Lindarets side having had a new covering of snow overnight, we had another morning of fantastic conditions. Later on, we went back to Chavanette and the weather did close in at the top around 2pm with very flat light. So we moved back toward les Lindarets and the Stash area where we finished the day.
After thinking about it all week-end, I did muster the courage to try a jump over a tree branch in the Stash, right at the very end of the day. And of course I clipped the branch with the back of my board ...and stacked it, to the cheer of the surroundings crowds in the adjoining lift.. Maybe I should try things like that at 39.. 
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Viz was variable in light snow today, made it interesting with so many ski schools parked on the slopes at Super Chatel, at least 40 in the queue for one drag at one point, spilling back across the piste not being shepherded by a man in red.
On the plus side there was boot deep soft stuff on piste and thigh deep in places just off.
Jackpot!
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Was excellent on Mont Chery today. Almost nobody around, perfect snow on piste, and apart from one 20 minute period excellent visibility with just a little bit of valley cloud. Only bad point of the day was the very slow service in the self-service restaurant at the top of the gondola.
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love Mont Chery, was like having your own private slopes when I was there last.
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Only bad point of the day was the very slow service in the self-service restaurant at the top of the gondola.
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that is a shame. We had lunch in the restaurant part on Friday - we had booked the Grand Ourse but one of our friends had a problem with his foot which meant he could not ski so quick change to the top of the gondola where at least he could arrive comfortably. There are new people running the Belvedere now and in fact in 13 years we have never eaten in the restaurant part - but we had a really good lunch, four different dishes all delicious and little beakers of complimentary soup while we were waiting, and a Genepi on the house at the end. Those not skiing down just made the gondola before it closed.
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