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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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brian, Post of The Day!
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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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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Rumour has it there's 4cm due today! Fingers crossed it continues!
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thefatcontroller, carled is the student and from the darkside, Brian is the master 
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There be snow on the webcams 
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snowcrazy,
glad to see you're back and mended. We'll be in 1950: 26th Dec - 2nd Jan, ( then possibly 16 - 23rd Jan) , then 27th March - 10th April. Catch up with you in George's? Or possibly on a piste somewhere!
JimW
PS after correctly guessing (!) 7 cm today in the 1950 village, j2 ski is predicting 7cms tomorrow, 15-19 on Wednesday and another 7 on Thursday.
Bring it on!
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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.
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Time for another update.
Some more interesting news coming out of the resort.
The emergency road has been finished and is a secure gated road connecting Arc 1800 to PV round the corner. I have not heard if they will be running buses along it in the winter, but as it is tarmac it should be possible or at least it gives a snow free walk in either direction if they keep it clear for emergency access. For those that are wondering, it comes out near the dump in Vallandry by the Service depot.
The lifts in 1600 are being worked on but with the current weather, although great for early skiing, it does not help them to get the lifts finished for the start of the season. Watch this space if I get any more news.
The same applies to the new lift in PV but they say it was not planned to be running this season anyway so we shall also have to just wait and see.
Another new development for the piste maps will be inclusion of natur ride areas, how they will mark these on the map or on the mountain will be interesting to see, they are not new areas just places people go anyway so they will include some as protected but unpisted areas. When i get the fulll list I will post it.
Finally with the current increase of snow predicted, there is pressure to open more lifts for the start of the season. I hope they make it possible to get over to 1950 and back without using buses.
Lot's to update next week. I will try to get more info by then.
For anyone that is interested, you can read more on the French web sites:
http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/forums/index.php?showforum=43
http://www.peisey-info.com/
http://www.r-montagne.fr/rm/bdd/index_bdd.php
http://www.leforumdeparadiski.fr/viewforum.php?f=52
And please if you are better at translating than me, please do post here in English any updates I might miss.
Weather to follow:
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You know it makes sense.
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Forecast for the next week is looking awful (as in good weather not awful weather which would be good weather) 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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thefatcontroller, yep looks like another snowless Christmas, first person to say global warming get's it 
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Poster: A snowHead
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globule swarming
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Roll on 15th Jan... Snow sure.. isn't it???
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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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New piste map - http://www.lesarcs.com/upload/2010_plan_des_pistes.pdf note it's a 15mb download. Hope they also issue as a jepg as they are much easier to zoom, scroll than a pdf
Pretty much as Snowcrazy notes above, Parchay only dotted and gollet missing. Some of the lifts around 2000 redrawn to try and make clearer although still not obvious that you can ski from the top of the marmottes to Arcabule???
Natur rides marked on all the obvious places - although bosses (black off derby) is marked as natur, yet last season was being bashed from time to time - does this signify a change of policy?
Picinic points now marked with an icon - reminds me of something but not sure what 
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Arc 1600 looks very un-served without Gollet !!! I know it was not much used, but I will miss that ramp up to the start of the lift.
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bertie bassett, [nerd mode]I know it's a bit of sideways approach to a problem but if you must have a .jpg rather than a .pdf, a freeware piece of software that I use to 'print' image files from any application on my PC will let you make your own directly from the acrobat (or indeed any) file. It just installs as another windows printer & all you have to do is set the resolution and file output defaults.  [/nerd mode]
http://code-industry.net/imageprinter.php
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bertie bassett, Do you think someone in the Les Arcs Tourist office got a new 'natur' ink stamp for their birthday and went a bit mad?
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| ringingmaster wrote: |
| Arc 1600 looks very un-served without Gollet !!! I know it was not much used, but I will miss that ramp up to the start of the lift. |
It was always amusing trying to get up there - but I did make sure I said bonjour to the liftie, as they were probably the most bored person in the domain.
Moffatross Cheers for that - I've installed PDF creation tools as printers before but not a PDF to JPEG, seemed to work ok although the quality isn't as sharp as a genuine jpeg but it is very usable. I use Picasa for my image manipulation, and their photo viewer is my default image viewer - I like the way with just moving the mouse I can move around and zoom in/out which is impossible with a PDF source.
TFC damned right!!
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Another thing I've just noticed - previously they would have separate numbers for Les Arcs or Peisey Vallandry Piste Patrol - now they only have one number (the old Les Arcs number) covering both sectors, which strikes me as a sensible development.
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thefatcontroller, not a hope if you want to stay largely on piste, and I don't think it is possible even if you take a very high and direct off-piste line from the to of the Derby. Looking at the topo map it looks like there would be a a couple of uphill sections you would need to walk/skin. What's wrong with taking the Gd Renard chair or the 2nd stage of the TransArc to access the 2000 bowl from the top of the Derby?
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| What's wrong with taking the Gd Renard chair or the 2nd stage of the TransArc to access the 2000 bowl from the top of the Derby? |
I find it a very boring (and flatish) run into the bowl from grand renard, prefer to go down to Vagere and in via Arpette, also Grand Renard not always open.
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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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thefatcontroller, yes, it is flat, but good for practicing carving skills...? Gd Renard seems to be open when there is a bit of a queue for the 2nd stage of TransArc, but closed if it's quiet. Don't know if this is deliberate or just coincidence.
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You know it makes sense.
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thefatcontroller, 
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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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| rob@rar wrote: |
| thefatcontroller, yes, it is flat, but good for practicing carving skills...? Gd Renard seems to be open when there is a bit of a queue for the 2nd stage of TransArc, but closed if it's quiet. Don't know if this is deliberate or just coincidence. |
I thought it was opened when the Trans Arc had broken down, but maybe that's the co-incidence
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Poster: A snowHead
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Boredsurfing, it wasn't broken, they saw you coming and shut it down.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rob@rar,
Boredsurfing, No its often open just not many realise its actually there and queue like muppets at Transarc?
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| thefatcontroller wrote: |
| No its often open just not many realise its actually there and queue like muppets at Transarc? |
Ssshhh. That's "local's secret no. 412" don't give it away!
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it was always closed on a saturday last season...
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moffatross, great link thanks, allanm, thefatcontroller, as rob@rar, says not a hope of getting across to new arpette unless you really know the route. It is off piste and up hill in places but it can be done if you like the challenge. There is a footpath which gives a stable base to ski along if you know where to find it. During the last week of the season we use this route to get back to the Funi quite often as they close the links and want you to go on the bus back from Arc 2000.
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Now for an update of snow conditions.
Not worth the effort of adding pics I think. It has become warm again with rain up to 2000m and most of the snow turning to slush or melting. There has been a bit of fresh snow above 2500m but not much. It is expected to get cold again by the end of next week, "Retour du froid possible vers le 28/11" . But until then good for winter hiking or with snow shoes but not much good for your skis, at least in my view (I like to look after my touring skis).
If anyone does get out in the coming days do please post what it looks like. I am stuck in the office until next week.
Not much else to update right now. One little note, it seems the Holski pass is worth getting just for the insurance if nothing else. Season carrie neige 19E. Must be ordered by by the end of November if i remember correctly. But check the small print.
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Quite, the webcams are looking very sorry now, out in three weeks, oh my the tension!
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snowcrazy, where do I get the season Carre Neige from? - In the past iirc it was restricted to members of ski clubs?
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FAQ
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Now for another update. 
Means the 1600 end could be busy all the time at the main chair and Le vache will still be a bit of a trek for lunch. 
