 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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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'm not quite that crass
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Hmm
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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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@beymix, just go to Ibiza instead and don't be a danger to those who are in resorts to ski. 
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@beymix, why do you assume snowHeads are "lovely gentlemen" ???
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| Scrumpy wrote: |
| @beymix, why do you assume snowHeads are "lovely gentlemen" ??? |
Meant more as a figure of speech than the assumption that everyone here is male, sorry for any offensive caused by my post in general.
I mentioned to a friend I was going to make a post here asking for opinions and he asked me to enquire about that which hasn't gone down too well. I wouldn't have asked had I not seen a few older posts mentioning class A's in certain resorts (in similar stag threads). Again, sorry for any offense caused.
I'll happily take some serious answers on the first part of my question (and the second if it's going  )!
Sorry and thanks again, ladies and gentlemen!
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Wow. A load of coked up 'lads' having a go at skiing. What could go wrong.
Please do let us know how you get on. La guardia are normally good for knowing where it's going down.
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'Nose clams?'What the ****?? Ta for enlightening me letsgetpiste.
Loved Andorra on a trip to Soldeu a few years back. Had a hire car and visited all the ski areas in the country, plus nearby Porte De Puymorens in France and Masella in Spain on the way back to Barca Airport.
Apart from the drink, the only high was the skiing , with the low point being the 6 or 7hrs it took to get back to Barcelona from Masella after skiing on a Sunday. One huge, soul destroying, traffic jam. And that was in low season (January). The outbound trip took about 2.5hrs...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
'Nose clams?'What the ****?? Ta for enlightening me letsgetpiste.
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
're: transfer time...
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The transfer time is always the killer into Andorra. Practice sleeping on buses as part of your pre season training!
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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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I see your 6-7 and raise you 11 from Toulouse @mountainaddict, due to avalanches closing roads
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@Nadenoodlee, I see your 11 hours and raise you 42 hours from Alice Springs to Brisbane.
Almost finished me off that journey.
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You know it makes sense.
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Good lord @mikeycharlton, why do a journey that long without the promise of skiing at the end 
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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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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Good lord @mikeycharlton, why do a journey that long without the promise of skiing at the end |
It was simply a case of needing to get from A to B, and since I had paid for the ticket about 9 months prior, it kind of felt 'free' at the time. I was supposed to do another 4 hours extra to an even further destination, but I was literally going out of mind and couldn't do the final leg (which I completed the following day).
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Poster: A snowHead
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@mikeycharlton, I thought my 24 hours from Tignes to Manchester due to the volcano was bad until I read this. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| mikeycharlton wrote: |
@Nadenoodlee, I see your 11 hours and raise you 42 hours from Alice Springs to Brisbane.
Almost finished me off that journey. |
Pah, I spent 3 stuck days(!) in KL airport this summer due to a volcano on Bali! Plus the planned 30-odd hours of other travel time.
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Well that's one of the best first posts - and immediate reply - that I've seen on here this year
Pas will be in full swing in January (though I've no idea about the off-piste activities  ). Ibiza on the snow, I don't know... it's a small mountain town; but it's pretty well geared up for stag dos etc. Note that, beyond the (good) bunny slopes, the skiing is easier in the neighbouring valleys - get yourselves over to the Pla de les Pedres valley that links Grau Roig to Soldeu. Grab a burger from the panoramic restaurant at the top of that valley, and on your way back into Grau Roig do the red Camí de Pessons and get a baguette and a beer by the frozen lake that's halfway down.
@mountainaddict, if you happened to return on a Sunday that was close to the 6th Jan (in some sense the Spanish equivalent of our Christmas Day) then, far from being low season, it was the busiest Sunday of the season in the Spanish Pyrenees and Andorra, and Operación Retorno would have been in full swing. We once (aw, the naivety!) made the mistake of driving up from Barcelona on the first day of that long weekend one year, thinking we were being smart by "leaving early" at 5pm  . 1 hour later and we'd progressed all of half a kilometer on the city ringroad... which i could have avoided by simply choosing a later entrance, uff. We got to our apartment in Andorra at 1:30am.
Still, although there's always weekend traffic, it's only the Fri eve and Sun eve of peak weekends that get really bad like that.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Did a stag is Pas about 14 years ago - cheap booze, good food, unchallenging skiing, mosh-pit in the underground bar, seemingly unlimited shots in the Marseilles, relaxed attitude to setting off fire crackers in the streets at 4am. TBH didn't see too much Gianluca going down though.
I subsequently worked in Avoriaz for 4 winters, and did witness a columbian influence there however.
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Wow. A load of coked up 'lads' having a go at skiing. What could go wrong. |
It's probably more common than you realise. Not anything I've seen myself (not that I spend a lot of time in bars or the like when I'm skiing anyway), but wherever there's a party atmosphere like a ski resort there probably isn't too far to go to get hold of nasties. I once got offered cocaine by a drug dealer in Venice, if you can get hold of it in a place like that then I'd have thought it's guaranteed to be around in a party resort.
| letsgetpiste wrote: |
| Practice sleeping on buses as part of your pre season training! |
Probably won't be an issue if they've got a load of coke
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I managed a 9-hour transfer to Pas in 2006, which was fun.
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Oh, that sucks... those dates really are pretty low season. i can only guess that it had just snowed for the first time in weeks!
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