 Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone know if the mudslide that occurred near the Tunnel Rif Blanc has been cleared?? Some friends are cycling the G2N Route des Grand Alpes at the end of August. Thanks😃
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@spottyboy101, all gone
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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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Cheers@Weathercam,
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Using Google translate it appears they're going to build the alternative road with a single track -alternate the traffic system to be completed by November. I assume to cater for the ski season
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@cameronphillips2000, that could well be old news as well as political inter departmental posturing, plus would be a major engineering challenge as the would be route is very very steep.
http://www.ledauphine.com/hautes-alpes/2015/07/07/ca-chauffe-entre-le-prefet-et-le-conseiller-departemental
No work will be carried out anyway whilst there is the possibility of landslides, and that's both sides of the lake.
Saga continues http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2015/07/07/le-phenomene-de-glissement-se-poursuit-mais-ralentit
The major landslides that were due to happen over the weekend never really happened, and what's the betting this scenario will carry on for quite a while, again putting a halt to any work for the foreseeable future.
General feeling on both sides of the Col is that we're looking at two plus years for a road to be built!
Yesterday I cycled up and over the Col du Galibier down to a little ski station just outside Valloire, Les Verneys (1,560) and had a quick sandwich and drink prior to going back home.
I was pleasantly surprised at how little traffic there was going over the Galibier as I was sort of dreading doing the ride to the Col only to then get stuck behind cars and camper-vans on the descents.
In fact on the descent down to Monetier from the Col I took 5 mins off my PB and did it in 25.40 at an average speed of 50.5kph, the record is 21.56m av 59kph. As opposed to the 1hr 42 I took going up which is way off my PB of 1h 26 but then I was conserving myself because of the heat and knowing I was going down a fair way on the other side and had the climb back up there!
In the Cafe in Les Verneys I asked the owner if it was any busier with the road closed in the other valley and she said "No", if anything it was quieter. Very impressed with the off piste potential there, and might well do a road trip there this winter as I have my tunnel tickets to use up!
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@Weathercam, do you find that people are falling over one another to reproduce your photos? 
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@Hurtle, subtle, no? 
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maybe it's just us older girls who are underwhelmed......
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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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Now now girls, what's so wrong with sweaty mamils????
Probably no worse than mumils........
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Hilarious nearly a full house...........
You lot of schreidendame do not disappoint 
I had a brief chat with this couple on the way up, I asked him how old his wife was, he replied 73 and then he told me he was 78.
That's one of the things I love about being out in the mountains people go out and make the most of them, still pushing themselves if that's what they're into, and believe me yesterday there were all shapes, ages and sizes ( http://www.griffephotos.com/Lautaret-Galibier,4211,9,fr,f,g96,n3.html ) going up there rather than just sitting on a terrace............
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Wed 8-07-15 19:54; edited 2 times in total
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You know it makes sense.
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@Weathercam, hmm. my O level German is not up to that .
@KenX, I had a swimming lesson today. You can be grateful I didn't feel moved to post a swimsuit picture?
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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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@pam w, I think it would rude not to!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Weathercam, agreed about the people you meet. Last time I rode there I got talking to and encouraged an elderly chap from the US that I went past.
Also got chatting to a lady who was riding up on a fully laden hybrid tourer. We'd overtaken her riding up the Telegraphe, we stopped for lunch at the top, then caught her at the bottom of the Galibier (she'd stopped in Valloire). Turned out she was riding from Geneva to Nice and had already riden over 3 cols that day. She was a 24hr enduro racer who had warmed up for her Geneva-Nice journey by riding across Canada. She rode away from me at that point and had been at the top 10 mins by the time I got up there!
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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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@Weathercam, I didn't notice who/what were in the photos. It was the mahooooosive "don't copy" message that made me laugh. Like it was a masterpiece of photography!
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| maggi wrote: |
| @Weathercam, I didn't notice who/what were in the photos. It was the mahooooosive "don't copy" message that made me laugh. Like it was a masterpiece of photography! |
That, as you of course realised, was exactly my point. I have no objection to (nor any particular interest in) what I could see of the photo itself.
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ah - ironic photos. Of course. Missed that. Is it permitted to post them on the internet?
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What's a POMBA? (Yes, I've googled it.) Images look like doves. Wiki says, " Pomba Gira personifies female beauty, sexuality, and desire.[3] She is viewed as a beautiful woman who is insatiable." 
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| pam w wrote: |
| ah - ironic photos. Of course. Missed that. Is it permitted to post them on the internet? |
+1
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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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Has the big slide happened yet then?
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Not as far as I can tell, still going slowly.
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You know it makes sense.
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Can't quite work out 100% the actual detail of this proposal ??
http://www.scoop.it/t/actu-hautes-alpes
Don't think it will filter down to Joe "independent" Tourist if my reading is right ?
Mare of a journey back from Turin airport yesterday - the Tangenziale was gridlocked with an accident all the way from the Caselle turn - we were on it for nigh on two hours and would have been more before I turned off a couple of junctions before IKea coming back and I followed by nose and then used the GPS to cut inland and cross country heading for Susa 
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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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@Weathercam, might be worth asking the tourist office.
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Poster: A snowHead
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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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@Weathercam, Nice pics, love the before and after!
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Done the off-road sections up there. Lovely ride, loads of wildlife too, golden eagles amongst them. It is indeed a lovely ride.
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@KenX, great photos. 
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@Hells Bells, 
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oooh eerrr tad pickled...........
So I think game plan for acclimatisation is - drive to Le Laus cycle up and over Izoard and then down to Casse Desertes for loads of selfies / POMBAS and then back to Refuge Napoleon where OH would have run / speed hiked to with Les Chiens.............
Only problem is once I've cycled down do I drive back up to get OH ?
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