 Poster: A snowHead
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easiski, The one on the left should be in the L2A brochure.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 7-03-07 22:09; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, fab pics - thanks. So looking forward to my trip now. Only 3 more sleeps! 
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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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| easiski, awww it looks loverly - I wanna come back!!!! |
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jonm, 2 for me 
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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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easiski, great pictures, especially the first one. It looks lovely the way the light is falling on the snow and the trees 
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Oooh, have a great time out there jonm & debbi!
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simonmj66, whooooaaa ! Sunglasses required for that one !
The gauntlet is firmly set in place.... I will not leave LDA until i have acquired at least one picture of a dodgy suit
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Ooooh, ooooh, please Miss, please Sir - if anyone is playing on Gours - could they get me a photo of the last corner???? It was a blizzard when I was up there and I just loved the view from that corner and I was too busy concentrating on not falling over to get a piccie. Pretty Please with Sugar on Top 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Leis, I'm taking a camera so will try. Not been before so don't know my way around though. (And I expect I'll be *very* busy trying not to fall over!)
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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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jonm, whereabouts in Mid Wales. I'm in sunnyish Aberystwyth!!
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Hi simonmj66, I'm in Welshpool, so not far away. Sunny here, too!
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You know it makes sense.
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Leis, is Gours to left just under the Mid station (Toura) the piste map is rubbish online !
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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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Yep! That's the one.
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Poster: A snowHead
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jonm, You're out to L2A on Sat? Are you being "easiskied"?!! Have a great time anyway - we had a fantastic time in Jan
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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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jonm, We might end up with the same snap with one of the other in it LOL
If i see someone taking that view I might whoosh past in front and wave 
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It's not the brightest, but pretty bad taste...
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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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Sorry to break the clothing thread but how long will it take to drive to ADH from LDA. Wouldn't mind a day trip at easter
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garethjomo, I wanna do the same. Heard it was about an hour? sure someone else can be mroe precise though. And is it true you can use the LDA lift pass at ADH?
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Apparently you can use it for one day?!? Any truth in this?
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While we stuck to LDA yes you can and there is a bus that will take you there or a helicopter ride I believe. Charlotte will enlighten when she arrives I'm sure.
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beachlou, I reckon the quickest way might be to drive to from ADH to Venosc and take the cable car up from there. That would avoid all the LDA hairpins as well. I won't be arguing if Lizzard or easiski disagree though...
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Ray Zorro, Agree absolutely. I always think it takes 1.25 hours to drive, but everyone tells me it's only an hour!  I wouldn't be wanting to race up that ADH road myself.. ADH/LDA passes give you 1 or 2 days in the other resort also SC and (bizzarely) Puy St Vincent.
cathy, Thatls the view from my balcony. Argenterre was very excited to actually see those silver birches!
Horrid, cold cloudy and sometimes foggy day today. Nice snow on the Cretes, vile on the chemin and even worse on the bottom of the Valentin at the end of the day.
jonm, We must meet up for a coffee/beer anyway! Sorry. 
Leis, Which bit do you mean about the last corner? the place by the Fee lift, the view across the valley from the path just after that, or the view from the steep bit just before that?
Scarpa, If not taken in LDA the romper suits really don't count on this thread!  
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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also SC and (bizzarely) Puy St Vincent.
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As well as Montgenevre and the other Voie Lactee resorts. PSV is a nice day out.
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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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Lizzard, It's too far to go IMV though for a day's skiing out of the 6 you might have on your holiday!
Any other Snowheads here but not declared: We'll be meeting at the Lutins bar at 17.30 apres ski tonight.
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easiski, no need to apologise! And will definitely be up for a drink at some point 
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You know it makes sense.
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NOt so bad on a season pass though I suppose, although the most bizzare must be the 6 days in Courmayeur you got with your Serre Che season pass this winter. We did consider using a few of them, but never found any suitable short-term accommodation.
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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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easiski, see if you can finish off the wine Argenterre left behind last time we were there
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Poster: A snowHead
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easiski, The steep bit before the lifts - never more scared in my life but awed by the view and wished I could swoosh down that loverly corner . . .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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never more scared in my life
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Hmmm, perhaps I won't be stopping to get the camera out then!
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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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garethjomo, I took the helicopter ride with my son & nephew - return approx £30/40 per head - great fun for 2/3 mins. My sister and daughter went by bus 8E ish each 1.5 hours each way - not so much fun but good price!!
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Any other Snowheads here but not declared: We'll be meeting at the Lutins bar at 17.30 apres ski tonight.
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Easiski, is this a weekly thing (or nightly!) we'll be staying in the Lutins next week, it would be nice to meet up for a green drink or two
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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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easiski, Those silver birches are a L2A landmark I suspect. Many of us watched and waited through the summer and Autumn waiting for the snows to arrive.
It should be a ritual for all to try and identify them when they are returning to the village from skiing - it's rather like meeting a pen pal - you know what they should look like but in the flesh gives it some meaning! So go on all of you going to L2A, spot the silver birches - They're quite distinctive!
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Agenterre, like you I have visited the hallowed birches. It's always a delight to see them on here because for easiski to be taking pics out of her window it usually means snow, snow, snow !!
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rayscoops, Don't remind me .. I haven't felt that rough for a year or so 
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jonm, I was only scared because it was a white out and I can't ski!!! 
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FSI, Any snowheads visiting LDa are more than welcome to let me know and we can organise a meet. there are usually at least 2 most weeks! My mobile number is on my website, and if you forget my fliers are in the tourist office!
A lovely day today, sunny and cool. Beautiful snow all the way up from the Cretes although I can't say the same for the snow on the way down from there. We went to Signal, bottom of Echines des chevres (very nice), down one of the canyons, bottom of Mura, off onto Moonland and then continued down the piste to 2,600 and Goulet du Grand Nord down to the Cretes again. Nothing but lovely snow everywhere. the off piste snow above 2,400m look fab - powder on a firm crust base by the look of it, but I didn't ski it. the Chemin de Demoiselles is absolutely vile and will undoubtedly be closed again tomorrow. Some of the Pisteurs were shovelling snow onto it from the banks, but it won't do the trick for more than an hour. I preferred the rather difficult snow on the last part of Posettes to finishing the Chemin (which was my intention).
I took a photo, but I've had the same problem with losing it as before, and as before I deleted it prior to editing it - so, very sorry ..... (my camera downloads every photo in memory every tme, so I have to delete as I go along or constantly download the same photo!)
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easiski, thanks for the update - it sounds great. We'll be there from tomorrow afternoon and a snowheads meet one evening sounds like an excellent idea to me. I'm just hoping my dodgy knee will last the week...
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