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I know there is a lot of people here worried about opening days and I hope it is fine for you! By fine I mean snow!

My main concern though is Christmas! Taking the family skiing to Vallandry/Les Arcs over Chrimbo and it all looks - well summery! I appreciate there will be snow up high, but that won't be much use for twin 5 year olds who need to stay around Vallandry beginner slopes.

I don't recall there being this much grass around from checking webcams avidly before?
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Boris, Snow did not come until the weekend before Christmas in Les Arcs last year - plenty of time so worry not.
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Boris, Don't panic there is still plenty of time. It would be interesting to see what this time last year was like but I sense it was not a lot different to the situation today. The important thing is that the temperatures have dropped and in time this means that snow cannons will operate. Last year the snow cannons fomed the base of the season and I remember them being switched on early December when there was no snow.

Oh and don't forget to do your snowdance - it always helps Little Angel
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Boris, Surely they have cannons in Vallendry? If so, no sweat - there'll be snow on the nursery slopes.
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Boris, They have cannons, and no doubt PG will tell us when they are being used, and may even post some photos HERE. The cachette piste is about the same altitude as Vallandry to give an idea
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It was the 17th of December last year before it snowed in the Northern French, I know this becasue I flew out on the 17th and took my Walking Boots!! I spent the 18th on the slopes of a deserted Megeve with plenty of slopes open and blue skies - one of the best days skiing I can ever remember!

If it does snow it's very likley to be down to 1600m and remeber the lower slopes won't need as much snow as they probably have grass under them and less rocks! Everyone will be thinking head high if it does snow a little but in the Grand Massif last year it was well into January before it was even worth a trip over to Flaine (1600 - 2500m), the slopes of the surronding villages (Samoens, Les Carroz etc) all had fine conditions on lower slopes!!
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Thanks all - feeling a bit more confident now!

Will be out doing snow-dance and (as a loyal Calvin & Hobbes fan) will be lighting candles around the sledge to appease the snow gods!
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Its all becoming horribly obvious.
Against my better judgement I'm off out to Val D'Isere on the 12th December, way to early to expect decent skiing.

This is what is going to happen - dissapointment right up to departure; desperately looking for a silver lining within (dry) clouds of despair; a week of scratching around on a few rocky runs doing huge damage to my new skis.
But worst of all missing out on the big fall of snow that week in the UK.

So the double whammy would be poor skiing in France and missing out skiing at home Crying or Very sad
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Meteo France is forecasting snow down to 1200m tonight in the Bourg St Maurice/3 Vallees region, so things may be starting to look up.....
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Don't panic! The only difference so far between this year and last is the slightly warmer temps, delaying the artificial snowmaking. Following sequence of images of the Arc 1600 Cachette piste last year, taken between November and December, shows that right up to the week before Christmas it was virtually all the artificial white stuff... Click on each thumbnail image for the high resolution pictures.

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Deserted pistes down at 1300M in Villaroger
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How cool is that?! Very interesting to see actually..
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Val Thorens (Highest European resort) is starting to look very good today!! Im off to VT on the 10th of DEC so all is looking very promising for me!

Check out this webcam http://www.levalthorens.com/us/webcam.html

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jimmy38, welcome to snowHeads!

I'm on the lookout for Val Thorens - although I'm not going until Easter. Nice to see it's made a start snowHead - but I suspect that represents bug-ger all snow! The Hotel Bel Horizon don't seem to have their fantastic panoramic webcam anymore Crying or Very sad
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