 Poster: A snowHead
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Some photos I took during last season which I like (note a couple on piste)
(feel free to add any of your own shots from last season to this thread)
Les Sept Laux, October
Les 7 Laux Autumn Half Term opening, 2nd November
Back garden, 3 December
Back garden, 12 December
Maurienne, 21 December
Chartreuse, January
Chris, Chartreuse, January
Chris, Chartreuse, January
Mike, Belledonne, January
Tot, zombie village, Chartreuse, January
Luke, Chartreuse, January
Back garden, January
Watchtower, Belledonne, January
Bill, Police patrol!, Chartreuse, End of January
Chris, Hidden gorge, Chartreuse, end of January
Old goat, Chartreuse
Mike, Belledonne, early February
Mike, couloir, Belledonne, mid February
Anny, Belledonne, February
Belledonne, February
Chris, Belledonne, early March
Mike, Chartreuse, mid March
tot, tunnel, alpe d'huez, April
Tot, Courchevel, end of april
Luke, Belledonne, mid May
Rob, Chamrousse, June
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice. Love the touring with a deck chair 
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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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Great holiday snaps 
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Pic 16. Old Goat Chartreuse, Nice pic of the Ibex but calling the bloke an Old Goat is a bit harsh.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Can I play too?
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"Mike, Belledonne, early February" What a great picture
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Great pics.
If that's your back garden then how big is your lawnmower 
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More of this please!
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Great stoke! Thanks 
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| flowa wrote: |
| Great stoke! Thanks |
+1!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Drool!
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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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Some fabulous photos there, davidof, I hope I'll ski with you one day before I get too old for the steep stuff.
I didn't take my camera last season (though some of my friends did). I need to buy a compact camera for skiing since my main SLR is too valuable.
About to ski Diagonal Gully down to Loch A'an, back of Cairngorm 19th May (why do Davidof's photos come out bigger than mine? Is it something to do with testicle size?)
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You know it makes sense.
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Someone start a season retrospective thread!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Love the line of wobbly knees at the top of Le Tunnel 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Chartreuse looks fantastic and goes on the list. What great photos and great timing.
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| 22 dropout wrote: |
| Chartreuse looks fantastic and goes on the list. What great photos and great timing. |
I walked around the east side of the Chartreuse today, a quick look before the snow arrives.
although with footpaths like this
I think I will stick to skiing.
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I thought I'd seen some mountain biking sights in the Dolomites but that's truly hardcore. Great skiing photos and gives me some ideas for ski touring different areas this winter.
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davidof, Aaaaaaaaaaargh. I'd be much happier skiing it.
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great pics, that first biking one makes me feel a bit sick though!
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davidof, these photos are the reason I dont go on bikes 
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I've mountainbiked for years, but I wouldn't do that.
My legs feel a bit wobbly looking at it.
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Loving the pics mountainaddict, My best ski year so far was 2009-2010, got 51 days, like you I fear it'll be difficult to beat but I'll have fun trying every year
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mountainaddict, do you have lots of info about the cat skiiing please??
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You know it makes sense.
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mountainaddict, nice!
So we were touring around Cairngorm on the same day in May! (see here ). Where did you go?
I would have skied 29 days total but was ill for a few of them.
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Certainly kitenski. Here's the company we went with:
http://www.mustangpowder.com/
As you will see from the website, accommodation is in a luxury wilderness lodge. The lodge is about 40km from the Trans Canada Highway, near Revelstoke and is reached by bus then snowcat for the last half hour or so. The whole set up and experience is out of this world - the lodge is fabulous (you really are in the middle of nowhere), the food amazing, the staff (from guides to servers etc) all brilliant....oh and and the skiing was just mindblowing - every turn was fresh tracks. We did 3 days/3 nights. The weather was a bit mixed - which meant that we skied a mix of tree runs and open, alpine bowls. All were fantastic. We really were gutted to leave and can't wait to go back at some point - the whole experience was like a dream!
Here's an excellent article, which just about says it all - and almost brought tears to my eyes when re-reading it a few minutes ago! http://www.mustangpowder.com/docs/ski_canada_october_2011.pdf
Mustang Powder's not cheap, although it's less than half the cost of heliskiing. We did it in January 2013 following three of our party of four reaching the big 5-0 in the previous Nov/Dec. However, I would say quite unequivocally that it's worth every penny.
The catskiing was part of a road trip - here's my report from the time - it includes a lot more Mustang Powder photos:
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=2191690&highlight=road+trip#2191690
Before Mustang Powder, we'd previously catskied at:
- Chatter Creek, nr. Golden - Fantastic skiing but we had a poor customer service experience. Guests travel by helicopter to their wilderness lodge - but we couldn't fly as, following a mega-snowfall, the helis were all in use for avalanche control work on the Trans Canada Highway. We missed a day/night (at a cost of ££££) and found to our shock that it was tough luck - no refund, no recompense and not so much as a free drink on arrival. So we were up the Creek....Appalling really and we wouldn't go back or recommend them.
- Fernie Wilderness Adventures, which is a day trips business in...Fernie(!). Absolutely brilliant and so good we immediately re-booked for the following day. You stay in the town, so it's a lot cheaper than the wilderness lodge operations. Highly recommended. http://www.powdercatskiing.ca/default.asp
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| So we were touring around Cairngorm on the same day! Where did you go? |
We did a few tours from April to May snowball so details are sketchy...but I think from that day's photos that we skinned up to the summit; down the other side; up towards Coire an t Sneachda(?); turned left and skied down to just above loch Avon; back up towards the summit of Cairngorm; but turned right and skinned up to the ski area via Ciste Mhearaidh.
No doubt you were in the vicinity?
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Great photos everyone, cheered up a rainy Sunday morning. Snowheads at its best when it goes off-topic and talks about stuff like skiing.
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April in Kleine Schiedegg
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Some of my favourite photos from last season
Tignes, October 2012
Tignes, October 2012. Settled in at 'coaches corner'
Meribel, December 2012
Meribel, December 2012
Mont Blanc from Les Arcs, December 2012
Happy days, Les Arcs, December 2012
Les Arcs, December 2012
Full moon rising, Les Arcs, December 2012
Les Arcs, December 2012
Corduroy goodness, Les Arcs, December 2012
Les Gets, January 2013
Morzine, January 2013
Chatel, January 2013
Niseko, February 2013
Niseko, February 2013
Niseko, February 2013
Niseko, February 2013
Not your typical mountain fare, Niseko, February 2013
No cheese, potatoes or cured meats in sight, Niseko, February 2013
Morzine, March 2013
Dolomites, March 2013
Dolomites, March 2013
Dolomites, March 2013
Val Thorens, April 2013
Finally, a photo of me with someone I admire (Ron LeMaster) at a coaching conference, rounding out a great season
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