Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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GIANT glacier....
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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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I confess I'm utterly confused. Where are they talking about? They talk about accessing from the Torino and that this 'Giant glacier climb' is on the Italian side. The only Giant Glacier I can think of is the Galcier du Geant (which is not normally described as a climb), but none of that is on the Italian side. So I'm confused about where this dispute actually is
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Thanks for that, but it's all Greek to me.....
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Nope I'm still none the wiser. Google translate gives this:
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According Italians, also, the border is not located near the refuge but 300 meters higher, in the middle of the glacier. |
Now the Torino is at 3375m so what is there in that area at 3675m? And the answer according to my maps is a load of air. The highest point on the ridge in that area is Le Grand Flambeau at 3559m so where this point in the middle of the glacier is I cannot work out.
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Could it mean 300m away, up the hill?
I imagine this is all to do with preventing day-trippers who've come up the cable car on the Italian side from wandering off onto the invitingly-flat glacier and potentially falling into holes on the French side where they have to be rescued by the PGHM. A shut gate is hardly going to present a barrier to any self-respecting mountaineer.
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Well that's sort of what I'm assuming it means. And I agree is seems like a storm in a teacup. However I know that organised snowshoe walks are run from the Torino and maybe they are what the fuss is all about.
Hope it doesn't end up causing tit-for-tat cancellation of the Chamonix ski pass access to Courmayeur.
Edit: I love the way it's automatically change my use of the 't' word there
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@MadMountainMan, What actually changed your reference from a family of beautiful birds common in the UK (I assume) to the funniest bird in the world
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If I edit my post it still refers to that lovely family of birds. It just doesn't display that way and shows 'booby' instead. I'm not even sure that's more PC than the original?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ok this is a test. Some software somewhere changes tit for booby. These twitcher references will be deleted later
Wow it does! I wonder why?
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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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Hehe see! I guess it's just considered a rude/offensive word!!!! Though I'd have thought booby just as bad.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Samerberg Sue, Oddly I have never seen the need to refer to attractive birds in any of my posts. I must get out more
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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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MadMountainMan wrote: |
Well that's sort of what I'm assuming it means. And I agree is seems like a storm in a teacup. However I know that organised snowshoe walks are run from the Torino and maybe they are what the fuss is all about.
Hope it doesn't end up causing tit-for-tat cancellation of the Chamonix ski pass access to Courmayeur.
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FIFY
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just don't ever write long threads extolling how much you love the taste of an 80' pint...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Isn't in the rude word dictionary and comes out as 'tit'.
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silly coconuts
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80/-
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Was testing. Dave, what did you mean?
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Yeah 80 schilling. Was just trying to make a gag of the fact that peeeeeenus gets substituted by pint
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