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kkev, that would involve going to the 3 Vallees, which is something I generally try to avoid 
Think I racked up more than 8000m of vertical almost all off piste at Engelberg on Saturday though. And I had time for a decidedly wierd traditional Swiss lunch which consisted of macharoni cheese with potatoes and apple puree
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Arno,
Do anything out of the ordinary..? I've never ever made it down the Titlis glacier into the secret valley as the walk out is discouraging...so I'm told...!!
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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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JT, I didn't knowingly go into a secret valley! We did several laps of the Jochstock - mostly on the left as you go up the lift, but one off to the right.
The top was shrouded in cloud so we only did one descent of the glacier that day - hugging the rock wall skiers right. We finished with the big run from the very top back down to the valley floor (forget the proper name for it). We didn't go into the couloir because it was very warm and it would have been asking to get buried by a wet snow slide. We took the route down the open slopes skier's right of the couloir, bashed through trees and nasty slushy snow and ended up by the lift right at the top of the valley.
All in all a very good day even if snow conditions weren't ideal
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rjs,
How did you manage to spend 5 weeks there? On holiday? |
I'm not really on holiday, I'm just "resting" for the winter.
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| But the Link to Les Saisis will add a good few km. I heard it is linked to another village as well ?? |
The lift pass is valid in Flumet and Notre dame de Bellecombe as well, but you need to get a (free) bus to get there, I haven't bothered. I have not been to Les Saisies either.
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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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Arno,
From Jochstock that sounds lile klien Sulz which leads out onto the lake - presume you cut left and did the two lifts to get back up again. The one on the right must have been a hike round the back or to a little ridge.
Sounds like you did a version of the Laub to get down the bottom but then again the more you explore.......
Next year....!!
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Arno,
Never like the cut by the rocks, I've seen too much snow fall off the top, but I guess the snow was scraped off the ice band so the way through is limited.
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| JT wrote: |
Sounds like you did a version of the Laub to get down the bottom but then again the more you explore.......
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Thinking a bit more about it, I think it was the Galtiberg but I'd need a proper topo map to confirm
We did a number of variations off the Jochstock. Off to the right was a short hike. Looked like there was a huge amount of additional stuff you could get to if you hiked a bit further than we did. On the left we did one where we ended up on the Jockstock side of the Trubsee. We also did a few where you ended up on the cross-country track and had to pole back to the lift across the Trubsee. Seemed worth accepting a bit of poling rather than doing a lot of traversing and not as much descending
The one down the glacier by the rocks was recommended by a local as a good way down when visibility is bad (which it was). Didn't see any evidence of objective hazards as we went down
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Arno,
All sounds good to me and I'll get back there next year. The secret valley...my name, all the locals know about it...is entranced via the Titlis glacier and I only got to see it via a cut though rocks on the way to the Laub. I was kind of looking for something that way when I saw a map in our hotel. The top half looks very crevasse-ridden and more of a commitment than the Steinberg for a few hunded mtrs.
Dare say I'll see you there next year.. 
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There can be many definitions of experienced skiers but
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| Try this - Everest and a half in day.... 30 lifts, 42250ft of vertical |
by going through the full extent of the 3 Vallees fits my imagination of an "able" skier, even if he/she is not a "happy" one in some people's definition.
The way I look at it is say skiing from 9am to 5pm with one hour lunch break the 30 lifts take 7 hours to get therough and so the average time to spend on a lift+run is 14 minutes. Therefore the skier has to be able to ski fast because many lifts in 3 Vallees take longer than 14 minutes to ride in the absence of any queue.
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ajhainey,
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My Where to Ski and Snowboard usually seems to be fairly precise about it - in the section under snow reliability? aj xx
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I think it is the best guide but in my (admittedly old edition) the information is missing for some resorts and incomplete for many.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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hmm, guess who is in La Tania in 3 weeks time..............
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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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acres work better for me than km.
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God - you guys are greedy! I only ever need about 2meters at any one time to keep me happy 
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You know it makes sense.
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stuarth, i really didn't get the acres.
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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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stuarth, why?
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Poster: A snowHead
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David Murdoch, I think he spends a lot of time in Whistler 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Helen Beaumont, O
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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stanton, so we're back from kms to feet? Need lots of feet of S & D, IMHO. Probably a helicopter too.
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