 Poster: A snowHead
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@Meltus, surprised not more been chucking it down in Geneva since early last night.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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There's probably 15-20cm on top of stationary objects I'd say (I'm not a very good depth guesser though...) and it is very much still going. Is this the biggest *single* dump we've had this season? I can't recall it going from zero to hero quite so drastically
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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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30cm of fresh, measured with a tape measure by patrol at the bottom of plancert draglift in Les Houches. Powder nice but heavy and mostly grass underneath!
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Friday morning in the fresh powder at Flegere was ok but not quite as enthralling as I expected (partly chose the wrong skill compensator ski). By about 14:00 the powder was turning to wet cement in the strong sun and I was yearning for the spring snow of two days before.
Putting my money where my mouth was I got up early Saturday and traipsed over to the Aiguilles Rouge and eventually flogged up the 700m boot to Pointe Alpphonse Favre and the Mort Glacier. What a relief. Fantastic fresh powder most of the way down to the last 20% to the track out, and even then fresh tracks to be made. The only problem is the fact that it was Saturday. By the time we looked back, ten minutes
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down the track, most of the major routes down were almost tracked out.
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"@under a new name, depends where you are skiing and how long the snowy period lasts.
Might get 2 or 3 days of powder on some north facing routes high in the Aiguilles Rouge, whereas you could get longer great skiing from places like the Armancette Glacier.
At the end of April 2017 ( and 2016 I think) we had shin deep powder and first tracks the whole way down the Vallee Noir to the Mer de Glace. 2 days later on GM closing day it was the same in heavy snow upside down touring in the forest. What's not to like?"
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Seem to have got all that back to front!
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@HammondR, yeah Friday was def a first tracks day. Got claggy quite swiftly. GMs held out longer apparently, as you’d expect.
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Any news about the Bochard ? Is it definitely out for the rest of the season ?
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No new news but suspicion is all season (from my instructor)
Also brevent top lift now pedestrian only due to rock fall blocking run
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@jbob, not sure it's related but still... not a good look!!
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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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Skied Les Houches this afternoon, as it's my home hill I thought I should ski on closing day. Pistes were rather firm due to being refrozen and not fully melted despite being 3pm. The run down was complete, just. For once the resort is closing about the right time for the snow conditions. In previous years it has closed on a powder day with a foot of fresh in the valley and in others anything below the beginner areas at the top has been unskiable (by that I mean you can't link the snow patches with speed) for more than a week before the end.
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CMB maintaining Bochard re opening next week. But they said that last week ... 
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You know it makes sense.
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@under a new name, and the week before...
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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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I think Sunday was the last day ever for the flegere cable car.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@jbob, after 63 years of servitude...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@under a new name, definitely built by engineers who grew up playing with meccano.
I’ve always liked the friendly staff at flegere, same people year in year out.
First used it 40 years ago.
Worst experience was when they shut brevent late in the day and sent everyone over to flegere. Took until nearly 8pm to download everyone. I got off around 6pm.
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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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Skied Flegere yesterday for a last ride on the cable car. Can't say I'll miss it....
Free BBQ though! Was all a bit cloudy and icy though the snow off the floria wasn't too bad.
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I temporarily rose from my pit of man flu this afternoon to have an hour at Brevant.
The closeure of Flegere means that no pistes or lifts past the Cornu are open, so a pretty small area. It is similar at Le Tour with the Vallorcene and Tete du Balme lifts closed for the season.
I had a look at the "rockfall" restricting the Brevant lift to foot passengers only. Goodness me! The narrow piste at the very end of the Charles Bozon run has been obliterated by a giant piece of rock which was part of the uphill wall of the piste. It has left a chunk of rock about 30x20x10 feet or larger. Hundreds of tons.
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@HammondR, yeah you would not want to have been below that when it fell off!
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Here for a week at Argentiere. Icy and slushy at Le Tour and Grands Montets. Pretty much the end of season.
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@gerald17, and you expect anything else? Snow remarkably good for the time of year, IME.
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| Here for a week at Argentiere. Icy and slushy at Le Tour and Grands Montets. Pretty much the end of season. |
That is spring riding in the Northern Hemisphere since time began.
The transition between cold winter and hot summer.
Icy in the am, slushy in the pm.
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@HammondR, I was told that most of the rockfall was induced by the pisteurs after a bit fell off and the face was deemed unstable.
I was wondering if it’s easier to fill in above it and just raise the level of the piste, rather than shoving the rocks down the gully to Chamonix!
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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.
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@jbob, Sad, RIP. Poor chap.
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Are they replacing Flegere with a gondola?
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You know it makes sense.
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@jedster, the old cable car is being removed and replaced by a gondola right now. I think that is why Flegere closed a week earlier than Brevant - the construction timetable necessary to provide for opening on time next season.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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good news - worst thing about Chamonix is the uplift out of the valley (apart from their propensity to burn things down of course!)
Really thought I was going to make it over from Les C last weekend but the closures, lift issues and immaculate conditions in Les C persuaded me against... Next year...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bubbles are out on the Bochard and they're testing it today, plenty of scepticism that they'll actually open it though!
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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?
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@under a new name,
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Family lunch at Maison Carrier
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Hmmm, OK, so Brevent closes Monday, ... that'l be our last outin up there then.
C'est de la soupe!!
Lovely and sunny and in my shorts now. Blue Scottish legs!!
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Looks like some snow above 1800m on Thursday then a bit drier over the weekend but with strong wind at altitude.
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Lovely morning at Grand Montets. Cloudy bit vis was fine and the snow was great. Maybe 10-15cm of fresh? You could feel the ice underneath in the Lavancher and Italian bowls but when you hit fresh patches it was powder skiing:)
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Yep Lavancher bowl was good but we arrived too late to find much untracked. Lovely weather this afternoon. Such a great time of year to ski. A couple of hours in the sun at the end of the skiing day. Pierre a Rick still skiable down to 1200m and the Marmottons cafe. 
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@Peter S, ”all the way to the bottom”, don’t you... 
There isn’t any run beyond the Marmottons
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Skied down from the top of the GM this afternoon. Cloudy with totally flat light and snow flurries so much of the time it wasn't evident if one was skiing up or down. However, tons of fresh snow and fresh tracks aplenty.
With the current forecast for quite a bit more snow today and tomorrow (falling to 1400m or lower), Monday looks like a pretty good bet for getting your powder on. For those who aspire to the Vallee Blanche it could be tops from both Chamonix and Courmayeur.
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