 Poster: A snowHead
|
|
OK. In upper slopes the conditions will be great
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
|
|
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?
|
|
Looking good Charlotte, looking good! getting ridiculously excited with only 25 sleeps to go- you do take a pretty picture or two!
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
easiski, Fab photos thank you! Looking like there is plenty of snow over on our side of the valley as well 
|
|
|
|
|
|
brian
brian
Guest
|
easiski, great pics. You weren't tempted to shred a base or 2 then ? 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Very nice.
Winter sure does appear to be well on its way in many parts of the alpes.
/hugs easiski, for the photographs.
I dont know about you guys but seeing pictures in threads is fantastic.
I agree media zone should be used for albums and vids etc but Its great to see a thread with a few
correctly resized pictures.
I think it should be encouraged, as long as rules on size are followed.
I for one will certainly sharing a photo or two on the boards from my trip next year.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
Lovely photos - great to see the snow arriving in the Alps 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Easiski -- Nice pics. Any feel for depths? Looks wide but thin coverage.
|
|
|
|
|
|
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
|
|
Easiski; Did grooming machines work today?
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
I have booked for 6th to 10th december.
We will be there in two weeks!!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Whitegold, About 3-4" where I walked, but probably more higher up - impossible to say.
metalhead132, Not enough cover low down, but it's possible high. I really couldn't say - as you no doubt know, we can't see very far up the mountain!
melting now in the village, but that would be good rather than bad, need that water to get into the soil and freeze. More snow coming so it should be fine for the opening from half way up. Main worry is very high winds at altitude - that snow ont he top of the Tete Moute yesterday was being blown!
|
|
|
|
|
|
You know it makes sense.
|
Blimey, if I keep getting pushed this far down the page I'm going to give up the unequal effort! Well, a lot of low snow has gone in the last 48 hours, but there's still good white cover around the top of the Diable (check "Resorts" for map of the face). I'm actually surprised and encouraged how much snow is left, and when it's starts up again (anytime now), and if the temp drops it'll re-cover the lower slopes.
the cannons appear to have been working on the Valentin and nursery slopes, so it should be possible to get all the way down if you like blacks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
|
|
|
|
Poster: A snowHead
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
|
|
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?
|
|
I think the snow is going to come back next wednesday......
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
As you say easiski it's early days yet - hopefully we'll see a temperature drop and more snow soon 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
|
It was definitely colder this morning at around 07.30 - 6deg on my balcony instead of 10. that's a step in the right direction.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
easiski, deffo a chill in the air here too - 3.5 deg at 8.30am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The forcasts are calling for a snowfront next weekend!!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
brian
brian
Guest
|
easiski, I can't quite make out all the names on that pic:
L to R:
Les Posettes
Combe Valentin
??
Grande Pente
??
L'Y
Le Diable (Super Diable up high)
?? Descente ?
I really must make an effort to get there in the winter someday ....
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Les Sapins is between the Grande Pente and L'Y
|
|
|
|
|
|
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
|
|
Anyone know if Les Deux Alpes and Aple d'Huez are still going to open on Saturday? We're meant to be arriving on Friday night in Alpe d'Huez
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
easiski, that sunrise is one incredible picture and an early candidate for the 2008 Calendar, methinks!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obsessed_intermediate, yes LDA will always open on schedule due to the glacier. Dunno how much else will be open from day one.
brian, you are missing, from left, the Belle Etoile, Sapins and la Descente.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You know it makes sense.
|
brian, Sorry about that - I'll have to do it in Corel Draw rather than photopaint another time.
I saw one of the piseurs today who told me that it was possible to ski down to 2,600 but the cover was not great. Can't say about ADH though - looks pretty green from here. The worst thing at the moment is that it isn't getting cold enough to use the cannons. We'll see tomorrow morning how it's going.
TallTone, thanks for the kind words. It's easy to take pretty pix when the scenery is so marvellous. I noticed that the grass outside my window was glowing orange so I looked out, and just had to leap up and snap it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
|
| easiski wrote: |
| I saw one of the piseurs today who told me that it was possible to ski down to 2,600 |
And the poseurs were saying it was too warm for fur coats! 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Poster: A snowHead
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
Easiski, snow tonight!!!, more on the way by the weekend
|
|
|
|
|
|
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?
|
|
Tonight's front seems to be active, it can bring 15-30cm with snow level at 1500m
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
|
metalhead132, It's still very warm here in the town, but it was starting to rain when I came in at around 18.00, so at the very least it'll be snowing on the glacier.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
The snowline will down tonight
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
| laundryman wrote: |
| easiski wrote: |
| I saw one of the piseurs today who told me that it was possible to ski down to 2,600 |
And the poseurs were saying it was too warm for fur coats! |
It is in town, I was at 2000 meters hiking today in shorts and t-shirt, you could even picnic like that in the sun. There are just a few traces of snow at that level in the shade. You have to climb to around 2300m to find continuous snow on all slopes. According to la belle Helena at les Deux Alpes the runs will open down to the Tourra level (2600m) at the weekend. l'Alpe d'Huez will also open although they've not decided what, beyond the glacier, they will open.
Some more info here:-
http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0651-warmest-autumn-on-record/
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| laundryman wrote: |
| easiski wrote: |
| I saw one of the piseurs today who told me that it was possible to ski down to 2,600 |
And the poseurs were saying it was too warm for fur coats! |
]
anyone seen wearing a fur coat should be hung drawn and quatered, or just hung up for us to throw things at. sick b*stads
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
|
well at least it looks cloudy Carled
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah true... I'd just been keeping a lid on my exasperation with Metalhead's comments all week...
Sat 25th - "I think the snow is going to come back next wednesday......"
Mon 27th - "The forcasts are calling for a snowfront next weekend!!!!"
Tue 28th - "Easiski, snow tonight!!!, more on the way by the weekend"
Tue 28th - "Tonight's front seems to be active, it can bring 15-30cm with snow level at 1500m"
Tue 28th - "The snowline will down tonight"
And what do we actually get? A warm, wet Les Deux Alpes, as the (more recent) forecasts predicted... The actual reason for the increasingly desperate forecasts by Metalhead can actually be seen here in a post made on the 22nd Nov: "I have booked for 6th to 10th december. " so all that is happening is, as I said elsewhere, people to whom it really matters (e.g. they're going out there imminently) will take on board all the available weather information then simply discard any that don't meet their most fervent desires, therefore any forecast model that picks up on a cold outlier ensemble run (usually one provided by an equally desperate local tourist office) and predicts snow is immediately seized upon as "the correct one" and all others are ignored. I think it's called "living in denial"...
Don't get me wrong, I really, really hope for all going out soon that it snows heavily in the near future, but "rogue forecasts" on here by those with snow-tinted spectacles on tend to (if you'll pardon the pun) avalanche into references to "someone said it was going to snow last week" sorts of comments by those who come along a bit later, when, in actual fact, the person making the prediction/forecast was quite often living in a fantasy world of hope rather than hard fact.
That being said, I'm not as gloomy as Stanton, I just hate the way that weather forecasts beyond a few days are given any kind of credence whatsoever! It looks as though a few changes in the arctic region that tend to favour colder weather for the alpine region are gradually starting to creep into place, so within a week or so I think we may start to see temperatures, at least, get down to snowmaking levels... whether the natural precipitation will also show up is anyone's guess.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ
followed by: 
with my footprints 
But 15 deg seems very high - tho I guess 'normal' is pretty much anything goes with weather now.
