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Bad news. 24 hours of heavy rain/snow that has a very high salt content has ruined what had been the best skiing conditions for 20 years. As far north as Val Thorens any resorts operating without snow canons will have to close. Here in the Serre Chevalier early reports show that the resort owners have managed to salvage 3 of the higher runs including "Casse de Bourf', "Le Aguillette" and "Premier Avril" pistes.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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chris,
Glad about 1er Avril being saved, one of the better runs.
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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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What!!!! I'm heading to les Menuires tonight, please tell me I'll be ok!
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Can someone answer me?
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jstw, you're screwed ... bad luck, there's always next season 
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chris, carled will be really disappointed. See you next week sometime? We arrive on the 10th.
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jstw, les menuires is completely shut down, sorry. the entire snowbase has slid off the mountain I'm afraid... 
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Are you taking the Michael!
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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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Bu**  er, have to get the grass skis out!
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I got it now the other thread gave it away, i fall for it every year! I'm so gulible! I was so worried, i was about to break down into tears!
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You know it makes sense.
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apparently there's a tiny patch left up on the glacier - but thats it!!!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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jstw, Twice! Excellent 
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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 I'm glad it is an Avril Primero!!
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what date is it?
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chris, "high salt content" - come on, you don't want to make it too easy.
Some fine historical April 1st ads for BMW can be found here. I like the one about the tyre pressures, because this has actually made the leap from whimsy to reality!
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Good one - for a moment I was filled with a mixture of horror and schadenfreude (sp?)
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... which doesn't sound like a tasty lunch.
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davidof, Wow - gave up trying to count the slides. Were they natural or induced by explosives?
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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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La Clusaz's pisteurs closed the La Balme sector yesterday afternoon after numerous slides - it looked like the above. There were big, full-depth slab slides - in several places encroaching on the (Blue) Bergerie run. Scariest was one big slide slap bang in the middle of the bowl on a hill every man and his kids play on as "between the pistes" stuff (self included on just about every visit to the place). Top chair had been closed all day (most of the week in fact) and thank goodness it had.
And there were still f***wits traversing high on the steep above Torchere to ski that very suspect looking pitch - having just been told the run was closing due to the risk!
Bummer that this thread is a little too close to the truth - the snow-pack in many places must now be as water-logged and unstable.
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Parts of Portes du Soleil closed earlier this week for same reason too
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You know it makes sense.
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Off to see the state of the slopes shortly.
It bucketed it down again yesterday... could be interesting.
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Just back - I have some photos of a huge slide, induced I might add, that closed the Villaroger side of Les Arcs all day on Friday. When I get myself sorted out from the trip back yesterday I will post them.
There was evidence of avalanches almost everywhere you looked and some had encroached the piste.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| CP wrote: |
Just back - I have some photos of a huge slide, induced I might add, that closed the Villaroger side of Les Arcs all day on Friday. When I get myself sorted out from the trip back yesterday I will post them.
There was evidence of avalanches almost everywhere you looked and some had encroached the piste. |
Fortunately I got down to Villaroger on the Thursday. Pistes at the bottom were looking a bit brown then.
It was a funny week in Les Arcs. Started off really sunny on Sunday - which caught a few out who were not wearing sun cream. Mid week we had snow and poor visibility. This was followed by rain later on but snow up high. On the Friday we skied a piste that had been encroached by an avalanche, it had just opened about 11 o'clockish. Good snow on it and plenty of fresh stuff still available elsewhere too. In the afternoon it got really slushy low down. It is really tiring stuff to ski through.
Still good depths of snow though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| kuwait_ian wrote: |
| davidof, Wow - gave up trying to count the slides. Were they natural or induced by explosives? |
I think most were triggered by explosives but a lot would have come down anyway. We accidentally encroached onto the pistes at Chamrousse yesterday. Talk about apocalypse snow - the resort, which was posting 70/135cm snow depths was like a scene from a disaster movie. Waterlogged pistes that had not been prepared, hardly anyone around, a lone cable car making the return trip to the top of the resort in 100km/h winds. A few people huddled in the summit cafe. I don't know whether they just did not' expect anyone to ski but the conditions would have been downright dangerous on the pistes we saw. The conditions looked more like the end of april rather than the start.
Still anyone skiing above 2200 m will have good conditions today. I wouldn't venture much lower down though with the buckets of rain and warm temperatures over the last two weeks.
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| CP wrote: |
| Latchigo, This one? |
No the avalanche was on my right hand side going down. It was a red run but I was with the Ski Club at the time and did not pay too much attention to the name of the run . Might have been the top of Plagnette, or Bois de l'Ours lifts.
Going back over it there was a sodding great hole at the top and a crack at the side. Someone said after explosions the pisteurs jump on the spot to test it further. Sounded a bit dodgy to me.
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davidof, It got a little soft today down towards Arc 1600 as the day wore on, but conditions were pretty good really. As you suggest some nice powder above 2000, but we still managed to ski down to around 1800 in some rather heavy powder off piste before it got a little too much to bear. Below that we were hitting patches of snow between the trees that felt like skiing into glue.
CP, Latchigo, skied through the remains of the Villaroger slide this morning. Pretty huge as you say CP. Still perfectly skiable except for the last couple of hundred metres down to Villaroger - a bit brown. Still, it is April, what do you expect at 1200m! Yes, plenty of evidence of big avalanches all around the 2000 basin. Fortunately last night's snow has made it look white again!
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Oh boy... thankyou so much Chris... did I ever get a bite when I posted this on my forum... from an entirely unexpected source as well. A bloke that is famous for doing April Fool's and wind-ups is coming on the ski trip next week. All through the last weeks of snow condition, temperatures and so on discussions he's been all, "I don't see why you keep discussing it, we're going anyway, it'll be fine, chill out..."
Then I posted the message from Chris on the forum as "bad news - look what someone who lives in the resort has said..." and this bloke got hold of the hook BIG time and was texting me in an entirely distraught state... we kept him going for ages before letting him in on it. He'd even rang his ski instructor mate in France who said he didn't know the area in question, but that a salt-laden rainfall would indeed have devastating effects, so as far as he was concerned it sounded entirely plausible...
Quite how he failed to spot the reference to the "premier Avril" run is a bit beyond me... 
So top marks Chris - the fallout from your original post continues to spread...
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Friend of mine has just texted me this minute from La Plagne and I quote " Dump! Massive, powder everywhere"
He always does this and it makes me jealous so make of that what you will..
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| JT wrote: |
Friend of mine has just texted me this minute from La Plagne and I quote " Dump! Massive, powder everywhere"
He always does this and it makes me jealous so make of that what you will.. |
More snow in La Plagne today than there has been all season, at least at altitude.
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rob@rar.org.uk,
He is a bug***...!! He always does this with late season snow....never happens when I ski with him early on....
&(*%%$^££""??>...Grrrrrr!!!!
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JT, I suppose you could send a reply to ask if he's been rained on? Standing on top of 3m of snow might be desirable, but the fun factor is reduced if its raining!
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