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Looking out the window at work  Pistes on the upper mountain quite nice. Lower mountain, put it this way there were 30+ cannons and 6 piste bashers making things nice again on my ski home.....they weren't supposed to be up on the mountain until we had left, but they couldn't wait.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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better snow on upper slopes !
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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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Where was that?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Oh Lord!
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I’m flying out Boxing Day, looks like I might be dismantling the old kitchen sooner than I thought
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
| I’m flying out Boxing Day, looks like I might be dismantling the old kitchen sooner than I thought |
You are ok, colder temps returning Tuesday. Might have to shut a fair bit tonight to save it for then. Or that's the current plan at Rochbrune
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How is Les Contimens looking, anyone been up there last couple of days?
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This is Les Houches in the Chamonix valley. The high area of this particular small, but lovely resort:
https://www.seechamonix.com/webcams/prarion
Snow conditions look awful after this weather. I've been here plenty of times over Xmas and never seen it anything like this.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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One for the road
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| davidof wrote: |
One for the road
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Was it today????
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| davidof wrote: |
One for the road
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Blimey
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You know it makes sense.
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Looks awfully green .. Princess?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ugh!
The webcam this morning of Bettex looked pretty bad. OK temperature are due to fall - but will there be more snow?
(From our point of view, it is three weeks before we are out, so fingers crossed everything has changed by then).
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Poster: A snowHead
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Im definatley going to be doing DIY this trip.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Eeep. We are out there from 7th Jan for a week. What do people think? Are things likely to change much in the next couple of weeks?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Les Contimens skied ok today but was very busy & it’s a mix of man made snow.
It’s to get warmer from Friday so not great for NY but maybe by 7th?
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Got a 4 day trip booked to Les Contamines on the the 10th Jan & again in March (been going to Saint Gervais, Megeve, Les cont's area for about 6yrs straight and have never had a bad week)
seriously starting to think about binning the Jan trip off and going to Val D instead as it looks pretty grim at the min and the forecast running up to the 9th of Jan does not look to hot at the min.
My big concern about switching to Val D or similar is everyone in the Alps will be thinking the same and will also be looking to switch to the higher resorts of Val D, Val T etc. So it will be lots of ques and just all really too much bother as we will have to cut the ski days down to 2 (due to the extra traveling involved to get to resort timewise) to make it all worth while.
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Decision made, swapped our accommodation and plans so we are now going to Val disere instead. Longer drive from Geneva but hey ho such is life.
Back out in March to Saint Gervais so fingers x all will be well by then (which I’m sure it will be for our March trip) but the current conditions and forecast just left us with no other option for our thrip out on the 10th than either to bin it off completely or go a lot higher.
I feel so sorry for all the restaurants, bars, staff and also all the mountain workers. 2/3yrs of Covid and now this. It really is pants for all involved.
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They're going to get 10 feet in late Jan / early Feb .. they'll all be fine.
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All the lifts will be closed for days
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Yeah, perhaps.
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No perhaps about it with 10 foot of snow
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I was thinking 8-10 inches per day for 2+ weeks .. seems like they'll be able to handle that.
Just in time for my Feb half term trip.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Where does the lift closure come from? With a personal interest in St Gervais we have been following the webcams and info, and it does sound pretty dire - you can't even get from St G to St Nicholas at the moment. And the views of Bettex show a very thin ribbon of snow.
I feel for @Jonny996 and anyone else out there at the moment, but surely - surely - the mild spell won't last and weather patterns will return to something like the average.
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In 20+ years in SG at Feb half term we've always had passable snow. Youngest is now year 12 so nearly out of half term hell. Hoping for some good snow.
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You know it makes sense.
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Half term is a really good bet for snow cover! Just too many peeps.
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@bpirkle, sounds a reasonable bet.
Don't count your chickens - if your child goes to university you may find family skiing limited to Easter which can be pretty dodgy depending on dates. This year just gone our daughter could only do Easter week (10-17 April, so late) and while she loved a bit of a skiing fix we probably did as much walking as skiing. At least it is a week earlier in 2023, and more propitious in 2024.
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These days we stay in Sallanches and drive to SG, Megeve, Les C, Chamonix, La Giettaz but the kids love our days skiing from N.D.de Bellecombe to Crest-Volande .. never really find the lift lines long at any of these places although it's probably busier than normal. There will be snow.
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Interesting @bpirkle, how does that work? We have visited Sallanches several times for rather focussed shopping trips, and changed buses there, but never really got a feel for what sort of town it is to stay in. It is pretty well connected - though a drive to La Giettaz seems a trek, it would be fine to park at Combloux and ski over.
But having our own place we are always going to be based in StG. We haven't yet explored Espace Diamant - plans got symied by Covid in 2020 - but we have this year again bought a season ticket so have a free day we hope to do.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We always used to stay in SG but down the hill in Sallanches is cheaper and not far from any of the stations we like to ski. It’s a nice little town and I like the locals vibe compared to the resorts. A bit closer to Cham as well. Yes we ski to Giettaz from Combloux .. much closer. We drove to through there from Flumet to Clusaz once but I’ll never try that again in winter.
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We purchased a little apartment in La Giettaz a couple of year ago. Regarding the road from Flumet, our first ever visit in December 2020 was a little dicey. We bought following an online viewing during lockdown so weren't fully sure on directions. It was around 8pm at night with a full scale blizzard falling and our first time on that road. However, never had any issues since as the road always gets cleared quick following weather.
Regarding snow conditions, we were out the week before Christmas and conditions did deteriorate towards the end of the week with the rain and warmer weather. Piste conditions much better on the Giettaz side compared to Combloux/Megeve. Also did a couple of days in La Clusaz where conditions were slightly better but slopes much busier. Back out at the end of Feb so fingers crossed plenty of snow falls before then.
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I've never skied in the US but I gather most people there drive to the slopes. As more UK skiers drive to the Alps perhaps it will become more common to stay somewhere like Sallanches.
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Well I’ve had to drive to Les Contimens the last few days as StG has about 4 runs open and all I can say is I’m glad I can walk to StG gondola normally, this loading the car, hoping you can find a parking space, changing out of the boot & knowing you have it all to do again on the way back.
It’s not for me.
As for slope conditions, today at top of Olympic in LC, so high up , it was 8 degrees , the slush was running off the pistes & it was amazingly busy so choppy as hell.
It’s going to be warm tomorrow so I don’t see how it can last without major snow injection.
After all that, still love it here.
Off to dinner then party, so happy new year when it comes.
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@mjmoran8, congratulations on that purchase which I don't think has previously been reported here. Though there are few local runs in La Giettaz they are definitely fun - and have the huge advantage of being north-facing. Possibly a bit of a schlep getting further afield beyond Combloux, but we do the trip the other way quite regularly.
I do see that in bad weather there might be issues with access being dependent on that road up to Col des Aravis.
Happy New Year everyone! And drink to decent snowfalls in 2023 - we need nice snow for three weeks time.
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One of the best days we’ve had was at La Giettaz on our last trip in Feb 2020 just before covid hit. Loads of fresh snow and very few people out.
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Thanks @j-b. We are really happy with the apartment in La Giettaz. The idea of buying started as a pipe dream a long while ago, initially looking at your area (St Gervais) and the area is great in both winter and summer. Apologies for taking it away from the snow report thread so will keep quiet again and wish you all a happy new year!
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@mjmoran8, no need to apologize. We're always interested to hear about people's mountain hideaways!
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