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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have fun!
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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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Looking forward to the TR. Mestia and the Svaneti valley are amazing.
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Almost went last week when it was dumping.
Went to sunny Cortina instead so feel your angst.
But you will get to see & ski everything.
Enjoy.
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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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Jealous!
Have a great trip and make a full trip report. Georgia Heli absolutely on my to do list!
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Mate...have a great one...see you the week after?
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Our AustroGermanicBrit Brexit busting team for the week
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Nice conditions on day 1. Blue skies and 20cm of consolidated powder
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Ushba
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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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Last run of the day. 12 runs, 10,000m of vertical. Heli makes it so (too?) easy...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Are all the runs, open bowls? That definitely makes it easy. When I was at Mica Creek, all the hard work was below the treeline.
I'm not knocking it - looks amazing!
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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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Not a bad start 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Perfect corn this afternoon
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@BobinCH please could you provide a breakdown of the costs of this adventure?
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| BobinCH wrote: |
| ... Yep all open faces up highish (between 3600 and 2500). Too warm for tree runs although I think there is tree stuff earlier in the season. The scope of the terrain is amazing! ... Too warm for tree runs although I think there is tree stuff earlier in the season. |
Sounds a lot like BC late season, depending on the weather. Last year was freakishly cold, but usually it's like what you have there.
Longer days and lack of trees mean that the vertical can get large, depending on the temperature.
| BobinCH wrote: |
| Heli makes it so (too?) easy... |
Every day's a powder day. Ok, corn then.
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| hd wrote: |
| @BobinCH please could you provide a breakdown of the costs of this adventure? |
It’s €6800 for the week, plus chf600 for flights to Batumi via Istanbul. Add a couple of hundred Euros for beers and tips. And €200 per hour per person if you go above the 14 hours included heli time. We’ve used half in 2 days but bluebird conditions and strong skiers. I compared with Canada and Alaska and it was certainly better value (coming from Europe)
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| rungsp wrote: |
| Mate...have a great one...see you the week after? |
Back on 13th and the up for Easter weekend 
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| BobinCH wrote: |
| hd wrote: |
| @BobinCH please could you provide a breakdown of the costs of this adventure? |
It’s €6800 for the week, plus chf600 for flights to Batumi via Istanbul. Add a couple of hundred Euros for beers and tips. And €200 per hour per person if you go above the 14 hours included heli time. We’ve used half in 2 days but bluebird conditions and strong skiers. I compared with Canada and Alaska and it was certainly better value (coming from Europe) |
That's bloody cheap for heli overages - I've heard of people easily double their trip costs in a good week at Canadian ops.
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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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Oh you are going to monster the vertical and heli hours!
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You know it makes sense.
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I believe the correct protocol for drone flying in such far flung places is to crash it somewhere irretrievable.
What are all the towers for? Grain storage/drying? Or real life Assassin's Creed themepark?
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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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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
What are all the towers for? Grain storage/drying? Or real life Assassin's Creed themepark? |
Apparently it’s a status symbol thing. The bigger your tower...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| jedster wrote: |
| Oh you are going to monster the vertical and heli hours! |
I think we’ve done 10,000m per day but weather changing tomorrow afternoon so Thursday and Friday uncertain. Today was a big day with some 1500m descents and my legs were feeling it by the end!
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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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That's the terrain you came for
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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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Muddy start today!
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Great TR, thanks!
What's the skiing terrain mostly like? Seems to be mainly mellow open bowls/faces and glacier skiing?
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| hd wrote: |
| @BobinCH please could you provide a breakdown of the costs of this adventure? |
It’s €6800 for the week, plus chf600 for flights to Batumi via Istanbul. Add a couple of hundred Euros for beers and tips. And €200 per hour per person if you go above the 14 hours included heli time. We’ve used half in 2 days but bluebird conditions and strong skiers. I compared with Canada and Alaska and it was certainly better value (coming from Europe) |
This is interesting. The place I went in Alaska (Points North) is $6250 all inclusive for 4 heli-hours, but those 4 hours were equivalent to 3 full days of skiing, probably something like 7-8km vertical per day. There's no way you'd be able to fit 14 hours into a week. It seems like the heli time must be measured differently, somehow?!
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| musehead wrote: |
Great TR, thanks!
What's the skiing terrain mostly like? Seems to be mainly mellow open bowls/faces and glacier skiing?
| BobinCH wrote: |
| hd wrote: |
| @BobinCH please could you provide a breakdown of the costs of this adventure? |
It’s €6800 for the week, plus chf600 for flights to Batumi via Istanbul. Add a couple of hundred Euros for beers and tips. And €200 per hour per person if you go above the 14 hours included heli time. We’ve used half in 2 days but bluebird conditions and strong skiers. I compared with Canada and Alaska and it was certainly better value (coming from Europe) |
This is interesting. The place I went in Alaska (Points North) is $6250 all inclusive for 4 heli-hours, but those 4 hours were equivalent to 3 full days of skiing, probably something like 7-8km vertical per day. There's no way you'd be able to fit 14 hours into a week. It seems like the heli time must be measured differently, somehow?! |
We were 12 sharing a heli in 3 groups of 4 so perhaps you need to multiply by 3? An average day skiing from 8:00 - 14:30 was about 3.5 hours of heli time for 10-12 runs.
The terrain is mainly big open faces as you can see and a few narrower couloirs. It’s a really stunning area but they wouldn’t let us at the really steep stuff used for the Ushba film. He said it’s just too dangerous with 12 people
What was the terrain like at PNH? That was the Alaskan one that looked by far the best value out there?
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