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Looking at the webcams, sky looks to be filling up  hate to spoil your luncheon plans Dr John, then again a long lunch is good when snow is falling outside
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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+3.7 at the moment and we had a little bit of snow falling on us when we skied back just now from Morzine.
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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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sanman, I won't hold it against you. I'm an all conditions luncher. The Seth Morrison of lunch.
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Dr John, I'm just jealous. You know the saying about a bad day's ski-ing ...
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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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Boo hoo , it's raining at Morzine level. Wondering where to head to get that as snow to play in some fresh stuff.
Thanks.
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Snowing in avoriaz
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Very cloudy in Les Gets and snowy-rain at the moment.
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DallyPaul, it was indeed (I was skiing with FlyingStantoni and MrsFS). Trees underneath Linderet lift were very nice (although one did swipe at me which resulted in spitting blood out of my mouth for 15 minutes). Did one of the Stades in Avoriaz just after lunch which was lovely with boot deep creamy snow, although vis was poor there. Tomorrow should be rather wonderful 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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DallyPaul, we're doing training otherwise I'd suggest going for a hoooooooon.
The snow was generally lovely, even if the weather outside of the Linderats bowl was awful. The link over to Chatel was well and truly closed.
Run of the day was the pitch off the back of the Avoriaz snowpark drag and underneath the Linderats lift. Fantastic, despite the numpty snowboarder. I generally like snowboarders, but this one ticked every stereotypical box...
Some very strange snow on piste between around 1600m and 1300m - very, very grabby and absolutely horrible to turn on. Off piste at the same altitudes was fine.
The avalanche risk is likely to be very high tomorrow. We're taking arva kit out with us, but I suspect the avalanche risk is going to be 4. For example, the Christmas trees run had been stripped of a lot of snow and that snow's going to be on the Plaine Dranse side. Be careful out there.
Puking down as I write and 1 degree on the comedy weather station.
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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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Had a fab day and loads of fresh tracks around Les Gets and Morzine.
Only disappointment was missing our last Choc Chantilly & rum en route back @ les blanchot - that top tip from here. A great holiday has been had. A great forum this is too - thanks.
Cairngorm just wont be the same next weekendl!
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Avalanche forecast for Chamonix is 4 or 5 for tomorrow and not going to be much different around much of the PDS. I'd be surprised if it were anything lower than 4 here tomorrow.
(Sorry to be mother, but...)
[mother]
Be careful off-piste tomorrow, particularly on those lovely north aspects. You only needed a pair of eyes to realise that a lot of snow was being moved around today.
Just because someone else is skiing a line doesn't make it safe.
[/mother]
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You know it makes sense.
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FlyingStantoni, We love the sking around Plaine Dranse but sounds like peeps need to be careful out there. We were out from 5th - 9th Jan and it was amazing. I do have to admit to being a bit bias to that area though because we love going for lunch in Bois Prin and it always seems rude not to stop when you have made the journey from Avoriaz
I dont think we will be back until April so will have to be content reading the reports (and a week in Les Arcs). Enjoy y'all
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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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had a great day skiing yesterday even if visibility was pants at times.
out on my own today, so best stick to the pistes or just to sides.
plenty of snow out there so best finish this cuppa and get a move on.
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Poster: A snowHead
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"Petit bisous et le risque est quatre. Risque quatre." was my greeting from the friendly liftie we like on the Linderats lift this morning. *
The ticket office at Ardent wouldn't sell rob@rar a PDS ticket as there was no intention of opening the links today and whilst both Chaux Fleurie and Mossettes opened, the opened late and I doubt they opened the links.
Given how early we started, late we finished and how tired we all are, the list of what we've skied today seems remarkably short. 2 or 3 laps of the Linderats lift; 4 or 5 laps of Prolays; 3 laps of Bouquetin; once on the Express du Stade and 3 laps of the Intrets lift. I'd guess 20-25cm of reasonably to very heavy powder and relatively quiet slopes.
We didn't ski anything with much exposure today - even some of the off-piste we skied yesterday - as you didn't have to look far to find signs of instability. There were lots of little naturally-triggered slab releases on north-facing aspects around the Linderats bowl - including a small slide on the face we'd been skiing under the top of the Linderats lift and even a slide on the bank between the cat track running from the top of Tour to the top of Linderats and the switch back in to the main bowl.
Not, of course, that many people were paying attention to this stuff. 
The best snow was on Bouquetin, which we must have skied 5 of 6 times.
Annoyingly, the piste had turned to "marble" again by around 16:00 - glassy and very, very grabby.
[* The petit bisous comes from yesterday. A ski instructor got on a chair in front of us yesterday and the liftie ran around to her with a couple of kisses. "Et vous?", he asked as we shuffled forwards past him. And with that I got a kiss - mano a mano. And for the rest of the day we exchanged "petit bisous" and "grand bisous" as we lapped the lift. I have feeling it's a joke that will run all season...]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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FlyingStantoni, let me get this right, you have been lapping a lift and exchanging kisses/holding hands with the male liftie for much of the day? Are you feeling OK? 
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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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I wanted to ski shorts but was forced to ski powder. These people in Morzine are quite beastly.
Pedantica, I didn't see any holding hands...
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rob@rar, "mano a mano"? Or does he mean 'man to man'?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| I wanted to ski shorts but was forced to ski powder. |
rob@rar, if you want to ski in shorts then you're welcome to. But I do think that you'll get a little cold.
Pedantica - let your imagination run wild 
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FlyingStantoni, it is, it is...
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It's worth saying that MrsFS won the first fall of the day competition - she fell over in the car park before even reaching the bubble lift.
We had to abandon the "who fell over the most" competition when it became clear that one of the group was having an unusually bad day and was getting a bit grumpy (with himself at least). (Thankfully he pulled through!)
(It wasn't rob@rar, MrsFS or myself - although I was in a shout at one point.)
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| Pedantica wrote: |
| FlyingStantoni, it is, it is... |
Our trainer had us doing "porno turns" today. Just to add a little more to the mix!
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3.8 degrees and raining as I write.
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-00.3 and a bit wet here in Les Gets right now
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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FlyingStantoni, tell me more. Monday morning's skills clinic with skimottaret might benefit from some enlivening...  Will the porno go with the general theme of 'short and snappy'?
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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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Pamski, dear me, that's an unfortunate intervening post. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| Pedantica wrote: |
| ... Will the porno go with the general theme of 'short and snappy'? |
Yes, it will. Quite perfectly.
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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, didn't see you out there today. but you probably had different colour skis which would mean a different jacket
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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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Cracking day around les linderets today. Weather variable, which made things interesting in a good way. Good lunch at le terrace in the goat village was spoiled by them being back bottoms with the bill and goggles going missing after being trusted to the staff. Considering there was 10 of us, 4 of whom were there for the season and 1 a long term resident of chatel, it was very short sighted of them, so they've lost a bunch of custom and references. can't wait for tomorrow. Dinner calls. Laters.
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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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I rained heavily all last night and a rain/snow limit of around 1700-1800m, which dropped in the morning to around 1400m.
We skied Grande Turche today, despite the risk of rain, because we needed quiet pistes for exercises. We did 6 laps of the drags next to the drag lifts above the bubble and then headed around the circuit over to "the back" to La Chevrerie to lap the lifts there. (Around a dozen times on the top drag!)
Excellent snow all the way around. Probably the best I've ever seen. Nice grippy snow at higher altitudes and "spring snow" lower down.
There is some great skiing over there if you're happy to lap lifts and runs.
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The light was fairly flat this morning when we parked at the bottom of the Lindarets gondola.
We skied over to Les Corsets and spent the day around there and Champoussin (revisiting the scene of where I lost a ski, had to walk down the mountain, Carol and to drive nearly 70km around the mountains to pick me up and then refinding the sk 3 months later). Pretty firm pistes with most of the off-piste very solid and a bit too carved up for my tastes. The skies cleared up during the middle of the day, the cloud only returning when we crossed over at Mossettes when three off the braver members of our group dived into the clouds onto the Frontaliere (black snowcross thing underneath the Avoriaz Mossetes chair).
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simonhardcastle, Yes, flat light - we were over on Linga side from LIndarets and not pleasant up high to start with but then it cleared - ah - somehow it all gets better then. All around Plaine Dranse was fine - long Linga run down to the gondola was very good at the top and got increasingly hard-little-bumpy stuff as we got lower. Then over to Avoriaz at lunch time and down to the bottom of the Crot - to find a new dining room in the Prodains hotel at the bottom by the lift, full and buzzing. Combe de Foret was getting a bit slick in places on the way down about 3.15 but run down to Ardent all good then.
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Quick blast around from Champery Les Crosets over to Linderets, Coupe du Monde, Le Crot, back onto Arare and over to Fornet snow park and run down Chavanette. Ripaille and run home down the Grand Paradis. On the whole the snow was better high up and generally better Swiss side for a change! Little icy round Linderets and patches on Coupe du Monde were quite scoured.
Generally great skiing though and fun day on my teles! Fingers crossed tonight as it looks like more snow arriving.
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Is the Vallée de la Manche easily accessible and what's the run-out like at the bottom of it? (Sorry if this has been covered here before, I did a search and found nothing).
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Welcome to  s simonhardcastle.
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FlyingStantoni, Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn'tMano a mano translate as "hand to hand" which adds a whole different layer of wrongness to the whole thing....??
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This is my first post here (I think?) A group of us arriving in Morzine this Sunday. Been to Morzine several times before and had separate 2 weeks skiing there last season, where snow conditions went from bad to worse. We ski Morzine & PDS at least once a year as everything's so familiar. Snow reports / piste conditions so far have been good, but reading some of above comments has worried me slightly. We're not off piste or die hard black run skiers, so where's the best conditions at the mo?
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