Poster: A snowHead
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15th May
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Frosty the Snowman, amazing photo!
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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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Frosty the Snowman,
Are those walls made entirely of snow or is there a rock-face underneath the snow??
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Crikey
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stewart woodward, all snow?...Are those bushes or tree tops?
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Why's that van look like it's driving on left (i.e. wrong) side of road?
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Got your lads delivering the furnishings for your third chalet/chateau?
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Boris, perhaps he got out to take the photo. Looks parked to me.
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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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thefatcontroller, there have been a lot of faked photos floating around.
I'm not disputing there have been some amazing depths, but some of that must be mountain sloping up as there is a bush growing out the top! Hence I don't think it is all snow on the right hand side
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You know it makes sense.
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That video is from 2006. The col du Petit St Bernard is still closed BTW. Before you try driving over. It will open in June. Normallement.
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In the top pic, left hand-side is pretty-much all snow. Right hand side has a steep hillside underneath.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Giro d'Italia stage up Mont Cenis and the Col de Galibier tomorrow has been scrapped.
Edit -they didn't scrap it in the end, see below
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 20-05-13 8:02; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This is the parcours for today's Giro
> In the top pic, left hand-side is pretty-much all snow
it is a drift, over the winter the wind filled in the flat hollow where the road passes. There isn't really 5 meters of snow depth.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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davidof, thanks for that, and this represents the scaled down version of what was originally planned for today
Wonder if Wiggo will now view Giro as unfinished business and have another go in 2014, which kicks off in Ireland? Or is he a girl?
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DoubleBombardino wrote: |
which kicks off in Ireland? |
Ireland, well I guess the flag is the same. How old is Wiggirl[1] now? He's probably still good for another couple of season isn't he? I wonder if the climbs on the Giro are just too hard for him though?
[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/10053670/Giro-dItalia-2013-Bradley-Wiggins-disappointed-with-Giro-form-admitting-I-descended-like-a-bit-of-a-girl.html
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The col du Petit St Bernard is still closed BTW.
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A number of big cols are still closed. The Cormet de Roselend is closed, too.
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That's an interesting way to film an alpine pass. Not open yet, then?
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Frosty the Snowman, pam w, ...excellent video....now, a serious question (and not the 'it's terrible...' ... 'it's all nonsense...' responses above) - from someone who actually is familiar with the Petit St Bernard: what month would these conditions usually be associated with?
I am familiar with the situation in CMA - and I have never seen Cry D'er like this in May/June - these are early/late April conditions, so I reckon we are about 6 weeks behind where things are normally.
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hey ho, I hope its cleared by mid July, I do like to pop over to Italy for lunch
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valais2, The latest I've known the road to be cleared was the 10th June, I think that was in 2006 and the snow banks were about 8 metres high, the pass is usually shut from mid Nov to early June.
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Normally the col will open tomorrow from 10am.
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Normally the col will open tomorrow from 10am
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very French use of "normalement" there
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peut-être (shrug)
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You know it makes sense.
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Claude B, "peut etre" indeed. how often would you hear that something "normally will" happen, in English. It would almost always be "normally would", as in "It normally would be open in early June but this year we expect it to be open a little later".
"Normalement" followed by a shrug, as an answer to a question about when something nice is going to happen, translates loosely as "we hope that" or, if you are lucky, "we expect that".
It's comparatively rare to use "normally" about a future even unless it's in the conditional. I have learnt this the hard way.......
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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