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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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great photos! more please!!
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| Wildsmith wrote: |
| great photos! more please!! |
Thanks! I have 6 more days to cover and lots of pics, just need to find the time to process and post them.
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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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@horizon, great pics as usual. Sopi bash were there yesterday.
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following  always love your pics@horizon,
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None of me kipping on the glacier 
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| kitenski wrote: |
| following always love your pics@horizon, |
+1
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Wonderful stuff. 
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Fab. Encore
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Fantastic, can't wait to read more.
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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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Wow.
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Wonderful photos, as ever.
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You know it makes sense.
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Great pics and good to meet you all in LG last Friday 
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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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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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Stunning shots! Movie title: « the Rainbow warriors » 
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Fantastic
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Looks great what camera are you using?
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@kitenski, my big camera is a Sony A7Riii, but only a few of the pics are taken with that one, for instance the last three above (two different lenses). Most others are taken with a Panasonic TZ100, and of course a few taken with smartphones.
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I'm still giggling at Pierre looking for new routes and behaving like Pooh stuck in Rabbit's front door. Superb shots, as of course are all the others.
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@horizon, cheers, I was wondering as the last 3 seemed much better quality and depth of field to my untrained eye!
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Envious!
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| BobinCH wrote: |
| Stunning shots! Movie title: « the Rainbow warriors » |
"The Good, the Bad and the Hairband"
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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If I buy some blue pants, can I come too?
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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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@horizon, One thing I've always wondered about touring/off-piste: What level of skier do you need to be to get started? For example, I'm pretty comfortable on any red or black, maybe not as stylish as I'd like, but I haven't done a lot of powder skiing. Would I be OK on a guided trip like this on La Grave, or it that a level or two above where I'm at? (I describe myself as "aspiring beginning advanced intermediate," as "expert" to me connotates that you can handle all conditions/all terrain with aplomb...)
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@Pasigal, I have two very different answers to your question. The second is the positive one, so read on
First of all, based on your description above I would say that the trip we did would definitely be a level or two above where you are. Most lines we skied had some level of objective difficulty and danger (steepness, crevasses, difficult snow, narrow passages, ice, etc - or in most cases several of the above). There was one easier day in Chazelet but even that had a couple of trickier moments, maybe not dangerous but hard to ski without falling repeatedly if you're not used to such conditions (well, actually that can be dangerous, it's easy to tear a ligament when skiing in liquid glue).
I'm not making it up, four years ago one of the guys in the group did have a very bad fall on our warm-up day (pre-guided week). He's now fully reestablished physically, but not yet mentally back to skiing tough offpiste.
(Of course, you might be extremely modest in your self-rating and actually be fine. But I'm going on what you wrote).
That said, on this trip we are a group of people who have skied for a long time together and are comfortable with these conditions. So, second answer - you don't need to do any of the above stuff if you want to get started. My fiancée, kolkie, has skied a total of about 10 weeks in total (all in the last 3 seasons) and I took her on her first easy tours on 31 Dec / 1 Jan this year. I am quite comfortable going with her offpiste in good to decent snow conditions, on slopes that aren't excessively steep (or, more importantly, where you can stop if you fall). That's a lot of stuff to tour and ski, and a guide could easily find things to do for a group of confident black run skiers who want do do an offpiste / touring week. I wouldn't suggest starting in La Grave, though!
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You know it makes sense.
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@horizon, Thanks for the assessment. I'm getting more and more interested in touring. It's hard to tell from photos just how steep the slopes are, as well as what the snow conditions are.
I like the "slopes where you can stop if you fall" metric. I'm down with that.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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@horizon, movie title: "Bag of skittles steeze - the return...!"
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This is so inspiring - awesome photos.
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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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@offpisteskiing, I was toying with some kind of "taste the rainbow" reference, but ya beat me to it. Great photos and looks like a great trip.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@horizon, thanks, this was a joy to read, and the photos! Wow, stunning.
There are some cracking shots in there, I love the one at the beginning of the weather closing in. Im really looking forward to seeing the rest of this TR 
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Fabulous
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Absolutely fantastic.
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great stuff - love the pic of La Meije
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On a tricky passage where we were roped, Arno throws his poles across a blind lip straight into a hole. Pierre gets them back:
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Pierre is clearly a particularly user-friendly guide. When I resort to that sort of stupidity, guides seem to find something interesting in the distance to study while I sort out my own nonsense!
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@jedster, he felt guilty because it was his idea to throw them down rather than keep hold of them
I could have stood there all day chucking poles and not got them into that hole. A strong gust of wind held them up perfectly and they plopped straight in
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