 Poster: A snowHead
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Great conditions in Val Thorens today after 2 days of snow. Almost everything open including 4th Valley, Cime de Caron and Mottaret liaison. Powder over a foot deep under Caron.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Frosty the Snowman, kitenski, Yes, looks like its going to be fenced off right down to below the area of 'gunbarrels' - time will tell though - everyone I know seems a bit put out by how wide it is!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yes, looks like its going to be fenced off right down to below the area of 'gunbarrels' - time will tell though - everyone I know seems a bit put out by how wide it is!!
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Could somebody please translate this and also explain what the "it" is?
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The funpark.
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The most important question, and Im suprised no one has asked is "how much was the French Onion soup"?
Excellent pics by the way!!!!!
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bobinch, great picks,
heading out to Meribel on Sunday anyone know how much of the area will be open
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I am going to Meribel on Saturday. I think most the Meribel and Mottaret lifts will be open from this weekend. Only a few Mottaret lifts were open this week. Weather forecast looks ok at the moment too.
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shefellover, I think it was 8.5 Euros? Their great pizzas are 12 Euros. Not too bad for up the mountain!
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After a great day in La Plagne yesterday we headed across to the 3Vs today to see what that was like.
We parked in Le Praz and got the gondola up to C1850 to start skiing. Eventually ended up in Meribel, then Mottaret then Orelle for lunch via Val T. (Spag Bol 8.4E on special offer - v nice!!) Snow was in good condition all over with the Orelle slopes in particularly good condition.
After following the sun over to C1650 in the afternoon we finished with a very cold blast down the Combe De Saulire into C1850 to catch the lift back to Le Praz.
All in all a great day on the slopes but there are far less lifts and pistes open than usual. I guess they are saving them for the Christmas rush...........
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| Roger C wrote: |
| there are far less lifts and pistes open than usual. I guess they are saving them for the Christmas rush........... |
Yep, full opening on Saturday
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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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a much needed dump seems to be forecast for next weekend in the 3V and all across the alps. Let's hope the forecasts remain consisntent throughout the week!
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| snowforever wrote: |
| a much needed dump seems to be forecast for next weekend in the 3V and all across the alps. Let's hope the forecasts remain consisntent throughout the week! |
Who's forecasting that? I honestly wouldn't read too much into a forecast so far ahead............
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You know it makes sense.
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Yep, full opening on Saturday
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Woo Hoo, arriving Sat! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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snowforever, this chart gives a total accumilated forecast for the next 6 days in millimetres:
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rmgfs144sum.gif
It updates every 6 hours but as of now there's only 3mm of rain precipitation forecast for the area before Sunday. Looks to be very dry as far out as the forecast goes.
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Poster: A snowHead
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3mm of rain precipitation is roughly 3cm of snow accumilation btw.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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musehead, i'm looking at the j2ski snow forecasts and they indicate a dry spell until sunday where 15cms of snow are expected. this will change for sure in the days to come but let's hope there is some snow in the weekend
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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offpisteskiing, nice pics! Where did you take them?
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bobinch, Becca couloir, Cairn couloir & undisclosed location in Val T 
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It's currently snowing in the Three Valleys and has been all day, it's not particularly heavy snow, but it's snow all the same! Think it's been heavier over the Courchevel and Meribel side than Les Menuires and Val Thorens
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is there still just partial opening in Les Menuires area this weekend? Lack of snow?
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Just had a week skiing the three valleys. Snow was good higher up, especially in Val Thorens. Below 1800m in Meribel things were icey and snow cannons were in use a lot. Snow started falling on friday and was still coming down as I left today.
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Conditions above about 2400m in Meribel and Corchevel valleys today was fantastic. Velvety on piste, light, fluffy and about a foot deep off-piste..... and it's snowing again now down at 600m
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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better in VT but bl...dy cold
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A few inches of fresh snow today, overall conditions are excellent. Courchevel couloirs are roped off at the moment, but we skied the Panoramic today (underneath the restaurant) and it had thigh-deep powder 
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You know it makes sense.
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Patch, Emile Allais was the same at 4pm - happy days..
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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offpisteskiing, I must have just missed you! Hopefully catch up later in the season.
Last night's snow seemed to have turned to light rain on lower slopes, conditions were just a tad heavier today, but still very good. Courchevel was extremely quiet
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lots of new snow last night, but very heavy with the foehn/lombarde blowing... Avvy risk high at the moment, all the East/North facing slopes were going with the PIDA this morning so be careful out there folks...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mucho soft heaviness yesterday, peeing it down up in 1650 (4degs @ 10pm) last night, soft fresh up there today but windy again... Temperatures due to drop rapidly through today/tonight so will be interesting to see what that gives us..!
Couple of rapido snow pits yesterday gave an easy collapse of the top 30cms on the now-buried ex surface hoar layer and this will most likely still be hanging about anywhere that hasn't been controlled/slid already so even with new soft snow on top alot of care will be needed in the back country for a while..
The wind with this weather has been helping to fill in some of the big holes between boulders etc. Skied Sous le Tele and Emile Allais off the Saulire last week and they were no rockier than they ever are...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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offpisteskiing, Thanks for these updates. I'm out with the family tomorrow so hors-piste not high on the agenda anyway.
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rogg, yeah, forcing Rudolph and the rest of the team to work in the storm would have been classed as animal cruelty and the elves were too p****d to do a saftey assessment for Santa anyway.
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A mixed bag today. Glorious sunshine to start the day, not a cloud in the sky, but many runs quite 'scratchy' and the off-piste a little heavy. Started to cloud over during the afternoon temperature is dropping, and is now snowing down to about 800m. Some good snow on some pistes, others are disappointing.
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About 5cm fresh overnight and reasonably clear thismorning. Lovely day skiing the upper slopes in sun yesterday, but below 2000m hard, occasionallly rocky and some ice. La Masse below mid station wasn't nice.
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offpisteskiing, out of interest ref the hoar layer, are you skiing sunny facing slopes as the sun would have melted/bonded that hoar layer due to the extra warmth and secondly on the north facing slopes will that hoar layer be there all year, or will it 'improve' with time?
Nice pics
Cheers,
greg
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