 Poster: A snowHead
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brian
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easiski, if you're quick you could nip up and move that snow fence 
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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 wrote: |
davidof,
Are you about in La Grave, we(GrahamN and I) should be about for about a week early Mar..!! |
Keep me posted. I called in on a friend today at Bourg d'Oisans and we were just chatting about how we rarely ski out of our immediate area. Force of habit, familiarity etc.
Still looking white today at les 2 alpes but most of the dusting of snow has gone
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davidof, Nice photo. It is amazing what a huge white expanse the Dome de la Lauze is when seen from a distance. Currently raining here, hopefully we'll find fresh snow up top. We really do need to cover up that ice. Yesterday was the icyist conditions I've skied for years (probably since I left Scotland actually)! Will report later. 
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Closed today. Visibility "nul" and wind approx 60 kph. 5 cms fresh snow aparently. 
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Opened late today, but I didn't go up as the poor little kids wouldn't be able to stand up in 60kph wind! BAH. 
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davidof,
Certainly.. 
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Nice day today, but too late to change plans and go up. Bah - I wish they'd get the weather forecasts right. Here's a pic looking over to ADH, it was prettier in reality because the chairlift (diagonal line to the left was gleaming in the sun. My camera's only cheap and could capture it. Never mind.
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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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easiski, Shame you're not allowed to pack a gun. Oops not politically correct, how about fall off twice and then to back of queue.
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Drag lifts are a pain to a learning Snowboarder.... T-bars even worse. A bit of barracking should suffice... Everyone has to learn sometime
I remember good US skiers going upto Horseshoe Bowl could not cope with a T-bar..... it was hysterical...
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You know it makes sense.
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| JT wrote: |
| I remember good US skiers going upto Horseshoe Bowl could not cope with a T-bar..... it was hysterical... |
I learnt on T bars, chairlifts were very much the exception so they don't hold any demons for me, in fact the last time I came off one was as a smart back bottom teenager trying to go up on 1 leg and got caught out when my ski followed a rut from someone else who'd fallen off.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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FenlandSkier, that wouldn't be young James Snowskisnow would it? Sounds like (sorry James!)
JT, I've always found T bars easier on a surf than pomas, but very tiring. It's just slightly annoying when you're waiting and a whole class (about 10) fall off repeatedly and get straight back on with the rest of us waiting!!
Now you know when hear from some publications "there are always queues at LDA", that it's not always the fault of the uplift!!!!
Anyway, I couldn't resist. Today was very nice, sunny, a good stiff breeze keeping it cool, and good hard summer snow. Conditions good all over the open slopes. Some little patches of ice left, but on the whole remarkable for the end of August.
Saw one of the best romper suits ever today, so will take camera again tomorrow in hopes.
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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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Helen Beaumont, no, I didnt see any blokes in the gym - the girls were far too interesting !
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| lampbus wrote: |
| Helen Beaumont, no, I didnt see any blokes in the gym - the girls were far too interesting ! |
I reckon they were only exercising when someone came past the window, I think they just sat there on those contraptions in between times resting.
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Meanwhile, I was walking from resort back to Venosc, and I found two of these:
VERY scary indeed!!
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Lizzard, can't see from the picture what are they
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Dammit, far too small. It's a very tropical-looking spider about 2cm long. Has a fat round bum in bright red with four dots on it, and a fierce-looking black thorax bit. Didn't look closely at the fang area.
Maybe I can make it look bigger:
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Yikes!
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Lizzard, I think my view was preferable! urgh!
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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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Lizzard, you were honoured, this spider is very rare. Below is a bit about it pulled of the web (no pun intended) which describes it in a little more detail.
Lady bird spiders, velvet spiders, Family Erisidae
Only two species of this family are found in NW-Europe. The name 'lady bird' spider relates to the beautiful colored adult male.
Formerly Eresus cinnaberinus was known under the name Eresus niger.
Eresus sandaliatus is a similar looking spider and is found in the Nothern parts of Europe. The third and fourth pair of legs is not coloured red but are similar to the first and second pairs, black with white rings.
The female measures 15 - 20 mm and the male around 10 mm. The spider makes a tube of silk in the ground and with a roof of cribellate silk on the ground. The female and the not adult male are colored black and velvet. The male spider only gets its coloring at his last change of skin. Then he leaves its home and starts wandering looking for a female. The male becomes adult in the autumn or in spring. Females can become four years old and never leave their hiding.
The spiders makes one cocoon with eggs. At daytime they bring out their cocoon and let it warm in the sun. At night the cocoon is return in the hiding. The young spiders stay in the housing tube during the winter and stay with their mother for quite a long time. During this time they may change skin for six times. In spring the mother dies and is consumed by the young spiders.
This spider is very rare and protected in some countries.
Their habitat is on south-faced, sheltered, heathery slopes.
More pictures here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Erisidae/Erisidae.htm
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He's called Eresus Cinnaberinus and is commonly known as a ladybird spider. You can find out all about him in great detail here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Erisidae/Erisidae.htm and apparently he's very rare.
NB. If you're an arachnophobe, brace yourself before you click the link! It has cost me serious mantal anguish to bring you all this enlightening information, so I hope you appreciate it.
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You know it makes sense.
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SHello, you must have posted while I was looking at the same page. I'm glad I didn't stand on him.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Lizzard, I'm sure the spider was glad as well
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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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Frosty the Snowman, don't worry, they are harmless. A bunch of  on the piste however, well that could be a different proposition...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Frosty the Snowman, given that they live on sheltered south-facing slopes, I find that hard to believe. Unless the Lutins has moved recently. 
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Frosty the Snowman, tough luck FTS, we love spiders in our house.
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Looks like the best dressed skier in Somerset is having a clean out, exhibit 1 and exhibit 2 for the prosecution.
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FenlandSkier, i think they should have been hung like that with the perpertrator still in them.
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Just spotted them Foxy, "hers being size L and his size XXL"
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FenlandSkier, so, it could be one of the Lardy Boys...
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FAQ
these two fell off about 5 times while we were waiting, they weren't the only ones either!
I've grown up since then 
