 Poster: A snowHead
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| valais2 wrote: |
Numbers: In Switzerland, you can use septante, huitante and nonante for 70, 80 and 90, respectively - compared to soixante-dix, quatre-vingts and quatre-vingts-dix in France....
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quatre-vingt-dix
no 's'
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Park City? No.
Definitely Heavenly (and the lines aren’t always bad there. Last Friday and Saturday the longest line we had was five minutes, and it was sunny.)
Not Jackson, but Targhee (for the Tetons)
Omission of Zermatt is nuts.
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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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@davidof, ....drat....true....
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My vote goes to.... Superdevoluy.
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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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| T Bar wrote: |
Three resorts in the trois vallees?
Someone either has a sense of humour or is blind. |
Agreed - I'm a 3Vs regular but Meribel and Courchevel ...? Come on.
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@franga, …exact…
Like Saas Fee and Zermatt, Grimentz is a beautiful village when you walk down from the parking and the Zinal link gondola. But the ski area is partially lovely and partially…well….grim.
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| franga wrote: |
| T Bar wrote: |
Three resorts in the trois vallees?
Someone either has a sense of humour or is blind. |
Agreed - I'm a 3Vs regular but Meribel and Courchevel ...? Come on. |
St Martin dB would qualify though I reckon.
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Alston in the Cumbrian fella. A picturesque hilly street with cobbles, pubs and local fayre shops. Relatively easy access to the major dales runs. A steam train services the resort as well as local buses. (There are free resort buses to more mature clientele)
Canoeing in the valley and mountain biking available off season.
Very few out of towners and not a male sided demographic like mist European “party” resorts.
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Alston is also on the Pennine Way so quite a bit of (foot) traffic through the town. It is, however, some way from the ski resorts of Yad Moss, Allenheads and the Weardale club.
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| oneglove wrote: |
Alston in the Cumbrian fella. A picturesque hilly street with cobbles, pubs and local fayre shops. Relatively easy access to the major dales runs. A steam train services the resort as well as local buses. (There are free resort buses to more mature clientele)
Canoeing in the valley and mountain biking available off season.
Very few out of towners and not a male sided demographic like mist European “party” resorts. |
Is that Yad Moss? Hoping to go this winter.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Ouch, that saturation's hurting my eyes though.
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Not the biggest ski spot, but Gerardmer is beautiful.
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You know it makes sense.
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| oneglove wrote: |
| Alston in the Cumbrian fells. |
Is that Yad Moss? Hoping to go this winter. |
Yes, I hope to go this winter as there’s always hope up there even in a heat wave with a strange Fhoen wind. It used to have a phone in weather line going back 20+ years. A compact quality leaflet of blue skys and deep Pennines powder that promised a lot for a lad not past Skegness.
Bobinchat, wonderful pictures and have heard of Zermatt but not seen it. A technicolour feast for the eyes and no doubt real.
I’m sure Alston could be just as nice if it wanted to develop itself as well.
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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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@telford_mike, gorgeous. For me Wengen takes a lot of beating and, unlike Grindelwald (and Zermatt) it's not hemmed in by its admittedly iconic mountain. I don't like a mountain, however beautiful, looming too closely over me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wengen is lovely. The only time I've been I stayed in a slightly shabby hotel just above the cliff. I remember walking out onto a slightly wobbly balcony and looking right down at the valley floor. Attention grabbing!
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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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A lot of these views aren't easily accessible however
Not specifically Wengen
Just a lot of the brochure views are taken from the air or inaccessible buildings
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I love Alpe d'Huez but it cannot possibly be on the pretty, chocolate box list for the main village, although the peaks surrounding the village are a great vista. Maybe it is because of the view of it from The Sarenne or because of Oz or the other outposts.
Undeniably, it has a fab feel, skiing up with anywhere, but it is robbing a really picturesque village of its place in the list.
But one person's pretty is another man's ugly.
I find a top 15 alternative "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" villages more interesting.
Les Arcs, Flaine, Tignes, Le Corbier, La Toussuire, Valmeinier, La Thuile, Samoens, Devouluy, Avoriaz, Cervinia, Les Menuires, Aime La Plagne (and Plagne Centre), the whole of Bulgaria, Soldeu
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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it is robbing a really picturesque village of its place in the lis
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That language inflates the importance of this silly list. It's just to sell Ski Solutions destinations. The fact that it entirely omits Austria (which undoubtedly has some of the prettiest resorts) just underlines its irrelevance.
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@Yellow Snow, hadn’t visited Avoriaz for a long time but was around there in Feb. It looks spectacular from some angles
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| Yellow Snow wrote: |
I find a top 15 alternative "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" villages more interesting.
Les Arcs, Flaine, Tignes, Le Corbier, La Toussuire, Valmeinier, La Thuile, Samoens, Devouluy, Avoriaz, Cervinia, Les Menuires, Aime La Plagne (and Plagne Centre), the whole of Bulgaria, Soldeu |
Brutal is beautiful:
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| pam w wrote: |
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it is robbing a really picturesque village of its place in the lis
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That language inflates the importance of this silly list. It's just to sell Ski Solutions destinations. The fact that it entirely omits Austria (which undoubtedly has some of the prettiest resorts) just underlines its irrelevance. |
Agree with the sentiment but for accuracies sake. Kitzbhuhel and Zall am See are there but low down the list.
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@Arno,
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It looks spectacular from some angles
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I think this is the point. Brutal is rarely beautiful for its own sake but how, like any architecture, it sits in its environment.
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OK, fair enough! My irritation at this ineffably stupid list no doubt interfered with my ability to read....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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To me it says avoid Ski Solutions!
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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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Zermatt definitely has to be on this list. I'd also include Cauterets in the French Pyrenees
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I think you're looking at this the wrong way up. Here's an oldie from Zermatt.
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You know it makes sense.
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I must be snow blind...anywhere I can look out of the window and see a mountain covered in snow with maybe a few rocks or even trees for definition, that I can then go out and try to slide down....now that is true beauty to me. I actually don't care about how 'pretty' a resort is...most of the time I really, really, REALLY hope that it's covered in so much snow so that I can't see how pretty, or ugly it is!
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