 Poster: A snowHead
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| dode wrote: |
Overrated: polenta & gnocchi
Underrated: T-bars… what’s not to like about a chat with a stranger |
What is not to like about re-fried gnocchi in a well aged comte sauce topped with smoked trout?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Overrated : Fancy New Kit
Underrated : Looking uphill before setting off
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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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Overrated: raclette
Underrated: rosti
Overrated: France
Underrated: Italy
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Overrated: Chamonix
Underrated: Portes du Soleil
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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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I hate threads like this because they
Inevitably bring out the usual, uninformed prejudices including, equally inevitably, dismissing all things French.
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| Markymark29 wrote: |
Overrated - Ischgl
Underrated - Sonnenkopf |
Agree with the latter, Sonnenkopf is a great area to visit, very easy to get to from St Anton or Lech/Zurs if you have a car, but few people seem to make the effort to ski there.
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Overrated - French Food with wine
Underated - German Food with beer
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| under a new name wrote: |
| dode wrote: |
Overrated: polenta & gnocchi
Underrated: T-bars… what’s not to like about a chat with a stranger |
What is not to like about re-fried gnocchi in a well aged comte sauce topped with smoked trout? |
Yum
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| MorningGory wrote: |
@Hurtle, You mean things you don't agree with 
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No I don't, actually, but the oft-repeated rubbish annoys me.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Well, maybe others don't think it's rubbish?
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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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| MorningGory wrote: |
| Well, maybe others don't think it's rubbish? |
obviously not
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| BobinCH wrote: |
Overrated: France/Italy
Underrated: Switzerland |
Clearly the Swiss Tourist Board have you on a marketing retainer.  France? Maybe, Italy? Nah, the Dolomites are majestic.
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You know it makes sense.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| dode wrote: |
Overrated: polenta & gnocchi
Underrated: T-bars… what’s not to like about a chat with a stranger |
What is not to like about re-fried gnocchi in a well aged comte sauce topped with smoked trout? |
Take the tasteless stoge and muddy river fish out and nothing. Comte is a fine cheese. 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Overrated: Bluebird days (unless you have a guide, low avalanche danger and can find some fresh powder)
Underrated: Snowstorms and whiteouts (mountain all to yourself and great for technique)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| MorningGory wrote: |
| Well, maybe others don't think it's rubbish? |
obviously not |
Overrated: one (wo)man's treasure
Underrated: another man's rubbish
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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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Overrated: Mega Resorts
Underrated: Tiny single chair plus a few drag lift areas
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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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Overrated: The expression bluebird days
Underrated: The expression sunny days
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@LOTA, 
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| under a new name wrote: |
| dode wrote: |
Overrated: polenta & gnocchi
Underrated: T-bars… what’s not to like about a chat with a stranger |
What is not to like about re-fried gnocchi in a well aged comte sauce topped with smoked trout? |
Take the tasteless stoge and muddy river fish out and nothing. Comte is a fine cheese. |
I like all those things independently but the combination seems wrong to me!
Fish and cheese are both fantastic but I've never felt they enhance each other.
I'd give it a go though!
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Overrated: St. Anton, Revelstoke, Poutine
Underrated: Serfaus, Grand Targhee, Paprika chips
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| BobinCH wrote: |
Overrated: France/Italy
Underrated: Switzerland |
Clearly the Swiss Tourist Board have you on a marketing retainer. France? Maybe, Italy? Nah, the Dolomites are majestic. |
Haven’t been to the Dolomites in Winter (but would love to!) so you’re probably right…
Was more a reflection on the stark contrast of Zermatt vs Cervinia, that I didn’t sense a few years back. And how Chamonix feels like it has gone downhill in contrast to its Swiss neighbours.
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| Was more a reflection on the stark contrast of Zermatt vs Cervinia, that I didn’t sense a few years back. And how Chamonix feels like it has gone downhill in contrast to its Swiss neighbours. |
I noticed that since Zermatt started investing in Cervinia infrastructure the differences have reduced. Cervinia still has more 'old style' non-decoupling chairs, true, but they are now only in the more remote parts of the resort. All the lifts that service a return from Cervinia to Zermatt are now modern and swift.
Chamonix I'd agree with you completely though; feels to me as if they are sitting on their laurels as a bastion of skiing and have not invested in updating infrastructure.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Overrated: wearing a gopro
Underrated: watching you fall down the Swiss Wall wearing a gopro
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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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Overrated: Bubble lifts & gondolas
Underrated: heated 6/8 pack detachable chairs with wind shields
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You know it makes sense.
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Overrated: SCGB
Underrated: Snowheads
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Bones, I was wondering how long it would take before that came up 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Overrated: Serfaus - awful place, don't even think about trying it
Underrated: Yellow Snow
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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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Over rated Obergurgle
Under rated Norway
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Overrated: Obergurgl
Underrared: Solden
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Overrated: Zermatt*
Underrated: Rohrmoos (by Schladming), Puy St Vincent, Hochgurgl, Serfaus, corduroy pistes, sweeping Super G turns, packed backpacks for the Ranulph Fiennes look-at-me but piste skiing.
* stunning Matterhorn and no cars, but very strung out - either long treks to lifts or a long trek to town centre.
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Overrated: Sarenne, AdH
Underrated: La Foret, same ski domain
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@BobinCH,
Seiser Alm is also known as Alpe di Suisi in italian. The area is tri lingual just to add to the confusion. The first language is Ladin (Ladino) which is a regional dialect which can also vary from valley to valley. The 2nd and 3rd languages are german and italian. Again this can vary between the valleys. The Val Gardena valley is slightly more germanic/austrian, whereas one valley away in Val di Fassa, italian is more widely spoken.
I remember chatting to an Italian lady from Milan who was holidaying in the area. She said that the italian spoken in the Sud Tirol area was 'terrible'.
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The Italian Alps and the Dolies are very different. In the Sud Tirol region they're only Italian by passport. The border was moved after the first world war as wrist slap for the Austro Hungarian empire. I actually like Cervinia, I know that many don't. The wife and I are doing a 3 stop road trip next month, Verbier, Cervinia and Val Gardena.
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Are you refering to Grödental?
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I agree re. Chamonix. Someone is skimming the lift pass money over there. The last time I was there, they still had solid bar Pomas.
