 Poster: A snowHead
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Sand did no damage other than looking strange. It happens regularly.
Awful day today, rain below 2500m, snow above and 60kph winds at 3200m. Wouldnt have gone out at all if I hadnt got friends staying.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Weather has continued in a similar vein since  Having a few days off probably wont ski until Saturday which looks like a nice day.
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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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@Claude B, Yes, not the best is it ? Did not conact you abut a trip over as it seemed pointless to be honest. I am back here next Tuesday for a couple of days so maybe then ? Enjoy Grenoble. It wa 26deg there last Wednesday when I went down !
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It's very depressing seeing the green slopes reappear...
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@jocrad, I agree but it is April.....
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I didn't ski Tués, Wed or Thursday (best day of week) Friday and Saturday we've had inversions with cloud hanging about mid mountain but lovely above, awful to ski back through. As there was à little new snow we went over to La Grave yesterday but inversion there too. Lovely day today. Lower slopes rapidly going now.
La Grave
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@Claude B, and over our side of the Lautaret we had a clear sky.
We were touring just up from the Lautaret (see Serre thread) and as we came down so the outer edges of that cloud bank were just rolling over a wee bit and was a tad foggy, but once lower down in the valley clear skies.
Really weird how we never seem to get that type of inversion over this side of the Col ?
And sunny again today here, what's it been like there ?
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@Weathercam, Beautiful day today. Skied 11 to 3.30. Quiet but screwed up slightly as Bellecombes lift closed all days, it's à major link here. Must have been a mechanical I think.
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Looking brown, lower down . . how is Alpe D'Huez holding up . . ? . . .
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@Belch, webcams look v brown lower down in ADH
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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48 hours and counting...
Hoping that the heavy rain forecast on Sunday means large amounts of neige above the crêtes, although I'll settle for toura and upward, what with it being April 
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You know it makes sense.
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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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It's going to get warm... :-/
At station level 
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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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Awful day yesterday, torrential rain and hail most of the day with a freezing point about 2500m. Was due to go to La Grave with a ski instructor friend today but as a heavy cold restricted me to 3 hours sleep I cried off, I'd have slowed them down when 100% let alone 40  Instead I went up here about 12 and did a couple of hours, there was a little new snow but lots of wind high, before the weather closed in. It's been snowing lightly in resort late afternoon/early evening.
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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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We did the punter thing yesterday, had to go all day...
Got first dibs from the top of la fée which was rather pleasant, the horizontal hail on the super diable with the kids that afternoon wasn't.
This morning was very nice with blue skies, then it closed in later on.
Tomorrow is going to be epic by all accounts
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@moody_git, Forecast for next couple of days is good. A little fresh too to liven things up
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You were on the Jandri with my wife and her friends this morning, they were ogling your equipment
My eldest got to go to La Grave with his ski school class this morning too, the lucky so and so. I never had lessons like that.
In the meantime, I had a lazy morning, put a leg of lamb in the oven (a real oven in a resort apartment, luxury) which will still keep us fed at lunchtime tomorrow. I'll have to get my back bottom in gear tomorrow because it's meant to close in again.
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Claude B was that with Alex and Ian?
Did you win an award at the french night? I won 'always late for lesson' trophy!
Le cordee is always a cycling stop in summer.
Well done for doing the ski down to St Christophe, maybe I will attempt it next year.
How did you get back from St Christophe to L2A?
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@howiet, Yes it was with Alex, Ian and Amy the physio. Alex had left her car at Venosc and as we bumped into Damien Albert at La Cordée he dropped her back there and she took us to Venosc for the lift. Next time I'll do it earlier, the walk was very hard.
No award for me I thought it was a nice evening though
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Not great here yesterday, I think I missed the better part of the morning and went up about 11. Chased any decent light around and tried to avoid the very heavy snow below about 2500m. Gave up after a couple of hours. Snowed last night down to about 2000m but vis is poor. I probably wont ski today.
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Une mer de nuages yesterday so when I went up about 11 anything below about 2800m was in thé clouds. Glacier was in sun with several inches of fresh. When I came down about 2 there was also some vis lower. Winter has returned overnight, it's very cold with snow down to resort.
Yesterday at 3200m
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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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Beautiful day yesterday. Sunny, a little fresh overnight and cold keeping the snow in good condition. Really windy and cold at first up high but wind calmed later. Cracking day, looks similar today
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We were hoping for something similar to happen to the clouds on Friday, but it didn't really happen. At one point we had to follow the rope down the right hand side of the signal, then they closed the piste silly punters!
If it carries on like that, there'll be more than a few people skinning up the super diable next week.
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You know it makes sense.
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It's been a pretty good week tbh, lots of sunshine, fairly cold and some new snow. Closing day today, forecast is for a sunny morning and a bit of snow this afternoon. As is usual a lot of snow is expected overnight after the lifts have closed.
Not a great season, too warm and not enough snow. Periods of wind and poor vis too. This will be my 97th day on skis though, still a chance of getting on the touring skis next week
I'm hanging around for 3 weeks or so to get some of the jobs done that I've neglected.
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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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. . .was warm end of Jan and really warm in March (kids skiing in baselayers/no gloves at resort level) Hope this doesn't become a theme - good luck for next season!
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Poster: A snowHead
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All done, skied 10 - 2.30 with easiski, my stepson and a french friend. Started nicely but snowing heavily now. Disappointed I couldnt ski back to resort but not surprised as the blue was in an awful state late yesterday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Typical, it puked down here last night. Near 20cm in resort
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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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Wow - just seen the cams - resort transformed! How many lifts are open this time of year or is it just the upper glacier . . .?
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. . nuts! When do they open for the 'summer' season skiing . .?
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Not really it was really empty last week, it's just not economical. All of the locals are flooding down to the Med now after working 6/7 days a week for the last 5 months. Summer season starts 18th June.
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Perfect skiing conditions here today, blue sky, loads of snow yesterday, but no lifts
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Snowed heavily in resort (1650m) yesterday and it settled down to about 1800m. That's on top of a fair bit in the last week which has fallen as torrential rain in resort. Bodes well for early summer on the glacier.
Done some more hiking (Lac Lauvitel Wednesday), a leg stretcher on my mountain bike which I had to sort out after sitting on my balcony all winter on Tuesday and a great day out in Vienne yesterday. Plenty to do even when the resort is "closed"
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Snowed heavily again most of Monday in resort. There has been a lot of snow this month higher up. As I've been getting withdrawal symptoms I took a ride on the gondola during a trip down to Grenoble.
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