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Well we are getting close to the start of the new season and it's time to start checking the webcams at the resorts we are heading to....if we haven't been doing that already 
We are heading out to Colorado a couple of times next year and it's already dumping over there!!
Just wondering where everyone is going, and have you started checking the webcams......or is that just me?
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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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l2a last weekend was great. dusting down to the jandri mid station but no way skiable, only the drags open on the glacier.
no snow in Chamonix at the moment, but then, no one expects snow in Chamonix at the moment!
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Zermatt has all summer skiing on the glacier but in October it opens down to Trockener Steg (2900m). The earliest it would open would have been 8 October. Because of one good dump it was able to open on the 10th, which is canny. However that run down is about two thirds on a glacier (all be it not one that could be skied in summer) and then the rest down to the lift station is helped by snow making. There has been one more good snow since then. The height and the fact it is north facing means it hangs onto the snow well. In fact the two dumps seem to be looking good as far down as 2500m. The rest of the runs (excluding possibly the very lowest ones into town) should (and probably will) open up at the end of this month.
The Italian side (Cervinia) opens up tomorrow as far down as Laghi Cime Bianche at 2800m. Actually despite being south facing that side is looking good as far down as Plan Maison at 2500m. I don't know if there are any plans to open up down to there before the general opening at the end of the month. Even if there is not I am out there in just over two weeks time and am happy with how things look for an early season stretch.
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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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@JohnMo, @JohnMo, Can you update with some photos and conditions from Zermatt once you arrive ?
I am due there on December 16th. I am entitled to free calculation until October 5th. if conditions are not improving. i may do so.
Ta
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Wed 11-11-15 12:20; edited 2 times in total
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A colleague was in Obergurgl over the weekend and said it was fantastic with empty slopes.
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| gnave wrote: |
@JohnMo, @JohnMo, Can you update with some photos and conditions from Zermatt once you arrive ?
I am due there on october 16th. I am entitled to free calculation until October 5th. if conditions are not improving. i may do so.
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Will do. I assume you mean December not October. Next week is just the (non-skiing) wife and me. When we go back out on December 13 we will have two thirds of the offspring with us (plus one partner). That is their main, possibly only, ski of the season. I would be gutted if things were not in good shape by then. But as has been said on other threads one good dump in the next month would do it - two definitely would. Even cold night temperatures would allow the widespread snowmaking to do its stuff.
The Warren Smith Ski Academy do their November course in Cervinia (including using the Swiss Side of Plateau Rosa). You can get a good idea of how good conditions are from their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/WarrenSmithSkiAcademy/
If it is that good on the Italian side it will be even better on the pistes 71 and 72 down from Furggsattel. Both sides have had about the same amount of snow up high but the Swiss side will have lost less due to being North facing.
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Have a long thanksgiving weekend out of Denver coming up (nov 26 - 29), hoping that Taos, NM will get going by then but holding off on accomodation till last minute. Would like to try Wolf Creek which as per its rep seems to be doing well on snow so far.
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| JohnMo wrote: |
| gnave wrote: |
@JohnMo, @JohnMo, Can you update with some photos and conditions from Zermatt once you arrive ?
I am due there on october 16th. I am entitled to free calculation until October 5th. if conditions are not improving. i may do so.
Ta |
Will do. I assume you mean December not October. Next week is just the (non-skiing) wife and me. When we go back out on December 13 we will have two thirds of the offspring with us (plus one partner). That is their main, possibly only, ski of the season. I would be gutted if things were not in good shape by then. But as has been said on other threads one good dump in the next month would do it - two definitely would. Even cold night temperatures would allow the widespread snowmaking to do its stuff.
The Warren Smith Ski Academy do their November course in Cervinia (including using the Swiss Side of Plateau Rosa). You can get a good idea of how good conditions are from their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/WarrenSmithSkiAcademy/
If it is that good on the Italian side it will be even better on the pistes 71 and 72 down from Furggsattel. Both sides have had about the same amount of snow up high but the Swiss side will have lost less due to being North facing. |
@JohnMo,
December 13 is around the corner. can you please update with conditions and some photos ?
Thanks.
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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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Espace Killy snow is great ato the momenr - skied 5,6,7 December and found it much better than we'd expected.
Good skiing on most lower runs - eg fine down to La Daille at 1800m; some worn/thin bits here and there; generally excellent at altitude; superb on highest runs.
Pistes very quiet and lovely weather too.
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