 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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France 
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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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Courchevel altiport?
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Alpe d'Huez?
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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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the slope is L'Impossible, the heliport is Alpe D'Huez
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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le Chateau Noir above Clavans?
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Blackpool 
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Les2Alpes
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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SAF still doing illegal heliski pickups I see.
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Tamworth Snowdome
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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gregh, gets the cigar. Wonder if he's consulted my TR over at TGR 
davidof, are they really illegal? I'd always understood that because it was dumping you at the altiport, it was OK legally. Not that I'm an expert on the French law on helicopters... Apparently, the people behind the Alpe d'Huez operation have expanded to Courchevel!
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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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I may have done
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You know it makes sense.
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gregh, gets the cigar. Wonder if he's consulted my TR over at TGR ;-)
davidof, are they really illegal? I'd always understood that because it was dumping you at the altiport, it was OK legally. Not that I'm an expert on the French law on helicopters... Apparently, the people behind the Alpe d'Huez operation have expanded to Courchevel! |
Well SAF think they have a loophole in that they are picking up not dropping off (assuming that is what happened) but I asked the missus who is a French judge and she said they had better not appear before her... where is l'Impossible exactly?
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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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Okay thanks Greg. Nice photos Arno.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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davidof, for the benefit of those of us who haven't woken up properly yet, can you/someone explain the advantage of being picked up from the top of the mountain before you've gone skiing, and being dropped off at the altiport?
(Hand already extended in anticipation of being passed the thickie baton)
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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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PG, read the thread on Teton Gravity, I think they got picked up at the bottom of La Grave and taken back to l'Alpe D'Huez where I presume Arno was staying.
Arno - any idea how long it takes to get the "authorisation" email from TG forums? registered this morning and not got the email!
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PG, from the top of ADH there are a number of classic runs which take you down to a small village called Clavans. You can arrange a car to pick you up and take you back to Auris en Oisans and join the lift system there. This takes 45mins or so. Alternatively, you can get the heli back to the ADH altiport which takes literally 3mins. It does cost a lot more, but I'd never been in a heli before so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
The car option can be quite a nice way of doing it because there is a good restaurant in Clavans. So you ask the owner to call the cab when you arrive and have lunch while you wait for it to turn up.
The final alternative (and one I have done more than the others) is not to descend all the way to Clavans but traverse/walk/skin up to the Col du Sarenne and join the ADH pistes there.
gregh, from memory, the TGR email arrived pretty quickly for me. Sounds like something might have gone wrong
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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 wrote: |
| PG, from the top of ADH there are a number of classic runs which take you down to a small village called Clavans. |
Ahh so the helipickups were from Clavans. I demand a cigar as well! 
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You can also get back to Val d'Isere by heli if you ski over the top to Bonneval (Sp?). You fly up high above the peaks. What they want to avoid is helicopters scaring the wildlife on the high slopes.
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