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Vee. Shall. Zee.
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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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@albob, TBH, that's all I need.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dolomites reveiw of last week
Dolomites been in Arabia from 15th dec until 22 now back home until 26 but we skied powder every day above 1800 Mtrs very good powder from 2800 down especially on the dark ski mountaineering good as warm temperature views perfect check out proguide instragram also jimmyston100 sides of pistes I good condition opening more as snow production is now on just all low level villages are suffering as all production has been for the races at la villa and selva .
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Now reporting 279km out of 444 and 161 lifts open.
On course to get all artificial runs open by new year?
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@irie, windchill will make it feel even colder! Lots of opportunities to sit in the great huts of Seiser alm for gluhwein and bombardino. I really liked Luis Trenker Huette . Should see 10cm plus of snow tomorrow.
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Now 291 out of 444km and 164 out of 196 lifts running.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Our friends who arrived yesterday and skied today have told us that the pistes are in excellent condition but that there's not much snow between them (of course). Looked like it was snowing this afternoon but not very heavy (Seiser Alm webcam).
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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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selva website now reporting 666km of 1150km! (dolomit superski) open, with 342 of 423 lifts working...... !
looks like arabba had snow overnight too 
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You know it makes sense.
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Up in Seiseralm today. Pistes generally in good condition - nice and grippy apart from the odd polished sections. Most of the runs are open and the few ones that aren't look like they are being prepared for opening with artificial snow. Not too crowded either. Visually it looks a bit peculiar, with dense white streaked runs surrounded by pretty thin snow and grass poking through, but hey, at least there's pretty good piste skiing.
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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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Sounds good, looking forward to first day out on Tuesday. Sounds a bit surreal but snow is snow.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Now 385km out of 444, getting nearer to a full house.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pretty good day, the pistes are in excellent conditions. The snow canon work has been so effective that other for the brownish bits poking up between the pistes you wouldn't know there has been so little snow. Only a couple of queues of more than a couple of minutes to start with but when away from ski school area virtually no queues. New skis are epic, still trying to get my head around how good they are on ice (of which there is very little). Happy. 
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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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Figures have dropped back a little today to 184/196 lifts and 370km out of 444km.
...still remarkable given how little natural snow the Dolomites have received so far this season.
Compares well with Tignes/ Val d'isere which is about the best performing resort in the French Alpes at the moment, with twice the amount of snow yet 64/87 lifts open and 190 kms out of a possible 300kms.
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I know we had too much of the stuff last year at the BB, but this season start is beginning to take the mickey for the Dolomites!
Hopefully some decent natural top up within the next 4 weeks, pretty please .... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Went round the Sella Ronda yesterday, it was shïte with the pistes hacked to pieces and big queues in the Arabba and Corvara areas. And there was me thinking that as in previous years on New Years day the pistes would be empty. 
And from what I can see there's no snow forecast for the next 2 weeks in the Seiser Alm which looks pretty typical of the whole Dolomite region.
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Disappointing for you. We always have lucked out in the Dollies. If it is any consolation it sounds like Megeve and Flaine at the moment.
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The pistes were good in the Seiser Alm, should have stayed there! Any case, we're back again at the end of Feb so no probs. France can go f**k itself, we've been ripped off too many times to ever go there again. Shame really because I have children called Pierre and Gisèle. Ironic eh?
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| irie wrote: |
| France can go f**k itself, |
Oh I say, that's a bit strong! 
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Harsh, but fair. The France can go shove it bit that is.
Not a massive fan
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| irie wrote: |
the pistes hacked to pieces and
big queues in the Arabba and Corvara areas. |
Can you elaborate? Hacked to pieces, what grass, rocks, or just mogul fields.
Queues at Arabba and Corvara have always and well documented elements of the sella Ronda.
But a little research on timing these can be avoided.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| irie wrote: |
| The pistes were good in the Seiser Alm, should have stayed there! Any case, we're back again at the end of Feb so no probs. France can go f**k itself, we've been ripped off too many times to ever go there again. Shame really because I have children called Pierre and Gisèle. Ironic eh? |
In what way were you ripped off in France? Ski area not completely open or just that it is pricey?
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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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@bart_bdv, having stopped skiing in France having "found" the Dolomites and Austria, the difference is in both prices and attitude. The French do not have the word "Boff" for nothing.
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@Freddie Paellahead, <--- What Freddie said. +1
Plus inadequately maintained lift system, infrastructure worked to the bone, insufficient investment in keeping basic infrastructure up to date, ...
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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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| irie wrote: |
@Freddie Paellahead, <--- What Freddie said. +1
Plus inadequately maintained lift system, infrastructureecking in worked to the bone, insufficient investment in keeping basic infrastructure up to date, ... |
Is that true of all resorts in France?
Australian cousins of ours were visiting Austria a coupleof weeks back. The wife got unwell and ended up in hospital briefly. Their hotel categorically refused that they arrived after the 6pm deadline for checking in, even after hospital staff talked to them... I'd say that's a big "bof" for Austrian hospitality...
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Poster: A snowHead
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how strange. austria vs france war in a dolomites thread 
nowhere has hospitality as good as slovenia (that's practically dolomites)
just contemplating getting kit ready for next dolomites trip. hopefully there's not another snowmageddon, but a little bit of white stuff might be nice.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This argy bargy around the alps is very interesting, but what's the snow like in Arabba/Selva/Corvara/Canazei etc......
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Sat 3-01-15 22:56; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Kruisler wrote: |
| Is that true of all resorts in France? |
Unsurprisingly it's a generality.
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| blytht wrote: |
| irie wrote: |
the pistes hacked to pieces and
big queues in the Arabba and Corvara areas. |
Can you elaborate? Hacked to pieces, what grass, rocks, or just mogul fields.
Queues at Arabba and Corvara have always and well documented elements of the sella Ronda.
But a little research on timing these can be avoided. |
I did the Sella Ronda on Friday anticlockwise. The snow was ok to be fair. The problem was the crowds coupled with shut pistes. Getting in to arabba from sellajoch was the worst crunch point. The blue into Arabba and the red from the new chairlift were both shut meaning everyone had to take a further chair that took you way up high. Huge 25 min queue for this lift followed by very crowded chopped up steep narrow pistes into Arabba with lots of understandably nervous skiers blocking the route down. Rest of the SR wasn't too bad though but with a lunch stop at Colfosco and a coffee at Corvara it took 5.5 hours
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@pjd very crowded chopped up steep narrow pistes into Arabba with lots of understandably nervous skiers blocking the route down.
Exactly.
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@Mollerski, you'll still get some good skiing in. Dantercepies, Plan de Gralba and Edelweisstal in Colfosco felt pretty much like normal. Ditto the run from Sellajoch to Lupo Bianco and the Belverdere area. Seiseralm good too. And the north facing steeps of Arabba - bar the NY crowds. The Alta Badia is looking sad though, with lots of runs closed.
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@pjd,
Good news, cheers. We'll have a couple of 2/3 weekers with us, so may stay fairly local to the Valley.
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-4 at 1000m, the best it's been so far. All good, I'm off in two weeks.
