 Poster: A snowHead
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22 Mar - La Foux/Pra Loup: very good skiing on fresh snow above 2100m. Temperatures quite high so the lower pistes were soft most of the day and almost slushy by the end of the day. Quite a few Dutch students about but didn't have to wait in any lift queues.
23 Mar - Le Seignus: a bit colder overnight so pistes more solid. A little bit of fresh snow high up and superb skiing early on. By lunchtime the slopes below about 1800m were like mashed potato. This afternoon there's a party outside the snack bar by the boarder park at the end of our drive: this consists of free food and drink, Bob Marley at high volume and the owner shouting incomprehensibly into a microphone - excellent.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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2 Apr - La Foux: solid pistes first thing, very good conditions from about 10AM, soft by lunchtime when we called it a day. Higher slopes were still firm when we stopped. Non-stop sun and about 10C in the village. Lowest 100m of the link to Pra Loup very messy but alternative routes available.
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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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4 Apr - La Foux/Pra Loup: pistes very firm first thing (about -4C overnight at 1800m). Held up well above about 1900m until 2 PM when I packed it in. Went over to Pra Loup and the slopes there were in very good nick, soft (turning to slush) below the level of the gondolas but plenty of upper slopes to play about on. Still no-one here, our neighbour estimates that each week they're losing enough money to pay for a new piste-basher.
5 Apr - La Foux: light snow this morning. Overcast so I just dropped off our guests and didn't bother to go skiing myself.
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10 Apr - La Foux: a few cm of snow overnight and still snowing above 2000m this morning (strangely, not raining below that level). Visibility poor so I only did a couple of runs and came home.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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12 Apr - Pra Loup: headed straight over to Pra Loup without skiing much in La Foux. Pistes high up in excellent condition - the snow was more like February than April. Soft below about 1800m by midday but upper pistes still very good at 2PM when we headed home.
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SEASON SUMMARY: The lifts finally closed last Sunday (23 April) having opened on 3 December.
Le Seignus: excellent snow throughout - the lifts could easily have stayed open a couple of weeks longer than they did but you can't blame the lift company for closing them at the end of March when no-one other than our guests was here to ski. Great snow and outside the local school holidays no lift queues. Most of the businesses seem to have had a much better season than last year. Never came close to having bad snow - always had at least a week's good skiing in it and then it snowed again.
La Foux - much the same as Seignus, stayed open until 23 April and still had a few people skiing then although the slopes were embarrassingly empty by the standards of other resorts. The snow held up very well throughout although their decisions about which lifts/pistes to open during the really quiet periods need reviewing as they shut higher lifts which gave access to multiple pistes in favour of keeping open lower lifts which each served only 1 piste.
Pra Loup - a much better year than last season (when they failed to keep the upper slopes open a lot of the time due to a snow cannon-related cock-up which was exacerbated by a once in 20 years' low snowfall), very good snow throughout and excellent well into April. Always a little busier over there than our side of the link but never the same as northern Alpine resorts.
The only times that the link between La Foux and Pra Loup was closed this season was when there was too much snow - this was only for a couple of whole days, mostly after a big dose of snow the link was able to open by late morning. One particularly memorable trip down to Agneliers in knee-deep powder accompanied by the smell of dynamite from the avalanche blasting to the side of the piste.
Back to the UK next week, 7 months until the skiing starts again. Don't suppose it'll take too long to save up the EUR300 for the season lift pass!
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