 Poster: A snowHead
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Yes, at Amnéville. Never heard of it? Well the French are catching on. They're always a bit slow off the mark as we know  , but they've finally got around to opening their own version of the snowdome, the first in France and allegedly the largest of its kind in Europe - so they claim anyway. Haven't got the stats concerning the opposition, but if anyone knows different....
Up in the NE of France the "Snowhall' has been constructed on the site of an abandoned iron ore slagheap, close to the borders of Luxembourg and Germany in the Moselle department. A racer from the Les Arcs Club tried it out last month and was pretty impressed. Here's his report, plus an article on the facility, with some photos...
The Snowhall website is here, but only in French at the moment: www.snowhall.fr
For British snowdome experts, how does it sound in comparison, say, to Xscape? Never been there myself...
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 1-06-06 9:16; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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A bloody sight cheaper than Xscape  and defo worth a vist if you're in the SE of England.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Looks really good. Seems quite a bit cheaper to ski than Xscape.
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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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Hmmm, a discount flight to Luxemberg and a car down to Metz for a long weekend would be cheaper than going to MK.
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How long is the slope at MK? The photos in PG's article certainly seem much longer than what I remember of the slope at XScape. The prices of the French slope are certainly more attractive - if MK charged that much (that little, in fact) I'd be a regular slope user, rather than just the three or four visits I've had there over the years.
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It definitely looks longer than the snowdome at MK, much longer in fact, but I don't think it looks as wide.
It is definitely a lot lot cheaper.
I am off to France in 4 weeks, so may drop in there on the way home.
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kosciosco, the Snowhall is 500m long by 35m wide, with 80 metres of vertical. Anyone know the stats for equivalent snowdomes in the UK?
And do any of the UK snowdomes have this deferred pass system, when you can 'clock out' for as long as you want without losing any of your slope time?
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The MK slope is only 170m long, so this is almost 3 times as long!
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| Masque wrote: |
| Hmmm, a discount flight to Luxemberg and a car down to Metz for a long weekend would be cheaper than going to MK. |
hmmm... not sure i'd choose this over a discount flight to Lyon and a drive up to Les Deux Alpes
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Too far for UK me thinks unless passing by. At a push if living in Dover!
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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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| kosciosco wrote: |
| The MK slope is only 170m long, so this is almost 3 times as long! |
Wow! Just wish that something like this would be built nearer to SW London
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rob@rar.org.uk, You and me both! But then if they convert the High Wycombe slope into a snowdome then I reckon that may approach the length of the snowhall, but they would have to extend it as it is only 300m at the moment.
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You know it makes sense.
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kosciosco, that would be terrific, but isn't the slope at Wycombe just a bit too steep for an indoor snow slope? They'd frighten off a high proportion of timid skiers?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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rob@rar.org.uk, I suppose it depends what they do with it, they could always build it into the side of the hill and reduce the slope. That would seem to be the most logical thing to do
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I was always unenamoured by the Wycombe slope though I know some on here are fond of it. The 300m advertised as seems common practice with artificial slopes was really 300m of matting not skiable slope. Imo the top 50m was largely too flat to ski and the bottom 50m stretch similarly so where not in fact uphill. The lowest 50m of the actual slope was also just too gentle so I only felt there was 150m of usable slope max. MK is 170m snow wall to wall. Probably 140m skiable at most.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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slikedges, Sounds to me like someone needs to get their act together if they are to match the 500m of the French slope! Thing is, why should they? The MK snowdome is packed and that would change if they added another 300m, just make it more costly!
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They're always a bit slow off the mark as we know , but they've finally got around to opening their own version of the snowdome
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But the end result is often better ?
Looks pretty good to me 
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slikedges, I think this is just another example of how overcrowding in the UK has bumped up land prices meaning we can never hope to get anything as good or as cheap as we see abroad 
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Masque, Wonder how much they will charge?
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500m is 100m longer than Dubai. Is there anything bigger in the world, never mind Europe?
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Ach so. Rates look pretty good there too.
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If I had seen this thread earlier I could have called in to compare it with MK and Castleford.
I drove through the Moselle region on Saturday.
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