 Poster: A snowHead
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Do we have any first hand reports? I wonder hoe deep the artificial is? I've watched people skiing on good artificial snow this morning, in France, but it's not deep enough everywhere to withstand ten days of intense traffic and intense heat.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| pam w wrote: |
| Do we have any first hand reports? I wonder hoe deep the artificial is? I've watched people skiing on good artificial snow this morning, in France, but it's not deep enough everywhere to withstand ten days of intense traffic and intense heat. |
30cm of artificial is allegedly far more robust than the same depth of natural when compacted. Temps are lower in the Dollies than the Alps, hence the extensive snow production.
What do I care? The more peeps crammed into VT and Tignes, the more of the current 507km of open piste around the Sella Ronda area my mates and I get to enjoy to ourselves. 
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Sat 19-12-15 13:27; edited 1 time in total
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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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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| The Men's Downhill is happening there right now. |
Just watching it live on a Eurosport feed...course looks lovely and Svindal now leading!
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| luigi wrote: |
| queen bodecia wrote: |
| The Men's Downhill is happening there right now. |
Just watching it live on a Eurosport feed...course looks lovely and Svindal now leading! |
The Eurosport coverage also showed people doing recreational skiing, so it isn't just the race track that has snow.
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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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| rjs wrote: |
| luigi wrote: |
| queen bodecia wrote: |
| The Men's Downhill is happening there right now. |
Just watching it live on a Eurosport feed...course looks lovely and Svindal now leading! |
The Eurosport coverage also showed people doing recreational skiing, so it isn't just the race track that has snow. |
Shuuush! Let them oik off to the blandness which is Val d' Tignes. 
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we skied it on teh way back from Ortesei at the BB last year. We had lifts to catch to get back form Arabba. We absolutely caned it down. I'm not sure what today's winning time was but I reckon we did it in about five minute...
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We'd been out from Arabba to Ortesei and then legs were a bit weak after the 10K James Bond run.
We had a debate as whether or not to do it on the way back as it's going back in ourselves. We decided to do it. We weren't racing but did it fairly swiftly and in one go. I seem to remember there's a red and a black sasslong and we did the black thinking it might be quicker. It's a wonderful run.
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@cameronphillips2000,
When the top section (back of Ciampinoi) ends and it becomes the Sasslong proper, there's a left or right split. Left is Sasslong A, the WC course, right is Sasslong B, which is a more gentle red which feeds back on to A just above it's conclusion in St. Christina.
For those who have not skied the Sasslong, don't be put off by it being graded black. Most of the run is so wide that you can use the width to take it easy.
You need massive kahunas to ski the thing straight however!
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| Mollerski wrote: |
@cameronphillips2000,
When the top section (back of Ciampinoi) ends and it becomes the Sasslong proper, there's a left or right split. Left is Sasslong A, the WC course, right is Sasslong B, which is a more gentle red which feeds back on to A just above it's conclusion in St. Christina.
For those who have not skied the Sasslong, don't be put off by it being graded black. Most of the run is so wide that you can use the width to take it easy.
You need massive kahunas to ski the thing straight however! |
I don't think I'd ever ski much straight these days as there are just too many other skiers about to consider. You are right about it being not particularly steep difficult. It is north facing and in the trees though so gets sporadic sun and conditions were quite variable troughout the run. It would be interesting to see which world cup/Olypmic runs others have skied and how tricky they are. The only other I've skied is the Olympic downhill at Whistler which is quite tame really. Obviuosly the Hannenkahn is the hardets at race speed but I don't know if it's easier to amble on down. I've skied the Luc Alphond downhill at Serre Che a few times and found the bottom steep section very very hard in sheet ice. It was complete carnage at the end of the day.
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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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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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As the Facebook page says: "Endlich!" Looks like steady snow for most of the week too 
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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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@luigi,
Yes!!
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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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It has now snowed for the last two nights and almost everything is open.
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Jim, don't you dare use up all that lovely snow!!
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FAQ
The last narrow section coming into St. Christina was sheet ice, we couldn't hold an edge for love nor money and ended up pelting it straight. Our Wives were watching from the bottom and were questioning whether it was actually us as they'd never seen either of us ski so poorly. 
