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We're off to La Toussuire with 4 other families and it got me to wondering where other  are off to. Anyone else in that area that week?
Where are you all heading?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Obergurgl with us and some of the other family.
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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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snowlamb, good choice - we'll be in your area!
Actually, we're staying in St Jean de Maurienne again and driving to various resorts in the valley. We will probably be on your side of the Sybelles on at least one of the days - but we don't know which yet!
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Fieberbrunn.
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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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Morillon and the Grand Massif ........dreading the queues and crowds but hey what can you do
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Saalbach, Austria
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Passo Tonale - not sure how busy it can get but who cares.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Avoriaz, but I'm staying on after half-term so hopefully get some quieter days too
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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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Selva with Esprit. Tonnes of snow!
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Im heading back to the UK it will be a madhouse here in Chamonix 
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You know it makes sense.
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jbob, ditto - we will leave Les Gets to those who have children or work in schools....
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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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La Plagne - it will be horrendous but the last half term ever
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Poster: A snowHead
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Cervinia - never skied in Italy before - my last half term ever too. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kay, years ago we went to Cervinia, during half term as I was working in a school at the time. It was fine. It was a long time ago when I think children went on school ski trips and parents went separately. Certainly never seemed really busy..
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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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+3 for me, although have managed to avoid until last year so that was good going
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Maddona di Campilgo with my daughter, loved it last year so doing it again
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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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Our trip already done to the Alps this year over new year. So a couple of days in Scotland if the snow stays like it is
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Dolomites.
7 night hut to hut ski tour, mostly on piste. We had a couple options, but has my youngest daughter has asthma, and needs extra rest sometimes, I choose for one where we twice spend the night in the same hut, just build in some buffering.
We're totally excited for this adventure!
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Thanks Pamski fingers crossed for this year too. Next year will have retired from teaching so hopefully can finally get some cheap deals
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HeidiAmsterdam, like the sound of that
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HeidiAmsterdam, like the sound of that too- do you know how late in the season you can do that? Looking for a nice few days away with the OH in early April 
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Avoiding the crowds if we can possibly help it...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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jma, we are in Selva over half term, third time, and apart from the Sella Ronda we have not found it overly busy, not long now )
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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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Vars.
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| altis wrote: |
snowlamb, good choice - we'll be in your area!
Actually, we're staying in St Jean de Maurienne again and driving to various resorts in the valley. We will probably be on your side of the Sybelles on at least one of the days - but we don't know which yet! |
Easy drive to Orelle and a day in the three Valleys!
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes, but why would we want to
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Humpfknick, evidently, the Dolomites area closed April 6th, according to the various websites I checked. Given how much snow they have, I had expected it to be open longer. At any rate the company I am going through is doing their last tour 15 March.
Thought I should mention, as I shopped around, I found several different options of small operators doing basically the same tour, but the prices varied, so it pays to google. I'm going with a group called snowemotion, but huttentocht.com and http://www.reichhalter.com/ski-huettentour-en.php was also about the same price, under 600 EUR for the week, for 7 nights, half board. Another group, italians, dolomia ski tour, do 4 night tours for 325, and it looks like they are continuing on for week more than the others. Having said that, the Dolomia ski tour group is now snowed in a refugio scoiatolli, since Wednesday night. Avalanche danger is too high to even ski out!
In comparison, I found virtually the same tours elsewhere for more than twice the price!!! So, a tip to the wise, it pays to shop around.
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Poster: A snowHead
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HeidiAmsterdam, OK….this is another take….as long standing mountaineers and mountain-bikers we think at different levels:
- destination (what hill will we be going to….)
- routes (what will be doing each day…)
- microroutes (what decisions will we face minute by minute, second by second, as we work our route….)
This year, as always, destination is determined - the same place as the last 20 years - how utterly boring….except it isn't, since the exciting action is at the route and micro route level. This year's snow has changed all our routes and our micro routing behaviour. North slopes are unstable in a way which I haven't seen in a long time - pits are showing a deep unstable layer close to the ground - November fall wind scoured and heated, then glazed. This makes many of our normal slopes very dangerous. Avalanche risk (as always really) has to be a process of forgetting what might be a 'safe slope' based on previous years, and evaluate as if you've never been on a specific slope. A friend experienced a substantial slide IN THE TREES in Verbier….
My 8 year old had a shock when launching off a lip he knows well, only to have exposed rocks come up at him…big discussion afterwards about scoping the landing and never taking any place for granted, particularly in a thin snow year.
So….where will be we be skiing - in the same place (at the highest level - i.e. Crans Montana) and in entirely new places at the level of routes and micro routes…..
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Valmeinier, first half term trip.
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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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HeidiAmsterdam, that's great info thanks so much! Only want to go for a few days so will look into those options
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Les Deux Alpes, wifey on the C2C with Charlotte. Son is with ESI snowboarding, me...I'll just be pottering around 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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valais2,
I totally appreciate what you say. I grew up skiing Park City, Utah. My Father was weekend ski patrol when I was a child. I can ski that mountain(s) blind in any conditions. I never got bored there either. There was always some place I wanted to ski.
I fantasize that I will find a new 'home' in the Alps, but actually my list of places I want to ski, only grow with each season! There are so many amazing places, and I haven't even skied Austria yet! 
Were it not for my daughter being poorly so often, I'd being going on my own between school holidays, but as it is, it just feels to irresponsible to leave home knowing she could fall ill at the drop of a hat. My husband works long hours, and it would just be too stressful should she fall ill and I was out and about. But, we're working on getting her health under control, so maybe next year.
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Aww Heidi that's a tough one!! Hope you manage to get her asthma under control soon, the poor thing...
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Maddona also, about 16 of us going, can't wait.
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| Rhumage wrote: |
| Maddona also, about 16 of us going, can't wait. |
Where are you stopping? we're in the St Raphael.
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stevew, We are also going to Madonna, where are you staying?
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Utah and Wyoming, flying out mid week though. Being half term doesnt affect us or the trip 
HeidiAmsterdam, That hut trip sounds good for something totally different - Dolomites are one beautiful area I'd like to go back to at some point, enjoy.
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