 Poster: A snowHead
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andy, No poling on Cascades if the wind is behind at top and you go for it! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| dogwatch wrote: |
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I'm not too sure nature intended mogul fields. Regarding your heart-felt plea for mountains to be left as nature intended, presumably you eschew all use of up-lift? |
Hi Dogwatch, good points well made, you'll notice I refered to the ski terrain, not how you get there! It's a selfish wish list, and selfishly I love the uplift and our passion would be a sorry minority pass-time without it. However I can't think of a lift which serves only blacks (and only one exclusively reds), those investments are necessary to create the blue run network which finances the whole resort. Just don't piste the black or red side is all I ask  .
Re bumps, as soon as anyone skis fresh snow it starts to change, bumps are the natural conclusion of this. What I'm referring to is the brutal de-vegetation, blasting, grading, etc. which is employed to create safe wide pistes that relatively few people use, and even fewer enjoy!
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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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worst thread
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Worst piste depends so much on conditions and how crowded it is.
The Valantin black
I really like that! Its super fun.
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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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thecramps wrote:
Also that stupid black that's not a black at all in ADH, the really long one.
The Sarenne? I liked it. It's a long, varied run into some wild country. Yeah there's some poling. Black, I think, because once you are on it you are committed to a long ski rather than inherent difficulty.
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+1 - I liked it. Had great conditions tho which probably helped. And a few friendly skiers gave me a tow - I have never had strangers offer to do that before (or since!), very nice.
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Blue run down to St Anton last thing is a bit of a shocker, M25, bodies everywhere, moguls, ice,. My missus hates it, we keep going back there though. There was also a run down to Sestriere from Sauze D'Oulx that was pretty bad, it was marked on the piste map but buggered if we could find it.
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Kaiser , that is only sort of a run, I have done it once when it was just bashed, it is more of a twirling road from sauze , to sestrier that has been done by a piste basher. It is brilliant fun if you don't follow the actual route made by the piste basher but go on the soft snow between the turns, by the late morning it can be churned up so it is hard to find it. I used to stay in Sauze, and then spend the day skiing in Sestriere , few runs in Sauze in the morning. There is one Run in Sauze that goes down to the next village, and it is always patchy, when you get down there you discover a really really old one man chair lift, that is not maintained you have to jump off and land on a big bump, not nice.
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Just seen this thread. How has no-one mentioned Sarbotte back to Les Carroz? A long track, almost completely flat, and of course we made the mistake of skiing it in deep powder.
I notice (bitterly) it's now even marked on the piste map with a "low incline" warning!
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| adithorp wrote: |
| Ours into Motteret. Come back late from VT as the lifts close and there's no alternative. Only good bit is straight-lining the few downhill bits in the hope of saving some poling. Complete nightmare for beginners though. |
you can broaden that to the bottom 200m of any piste into Mottaret - the snow is always pants on any of those runs..
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"Happy Valley" - St Anton
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