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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By long do you mean horizontally from start to finish or vertically?
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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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start..to finish
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Good ski area.
Slow lifts.
But short runs.
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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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denfinella wrote: |
Good ski area.
Slow lifts.
But short runs. |
I assume you're being sarky, as the second and third comments completely contradict the first.
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Dr John wrote: |
denfinella wrote: |
Good ski area.
Slow lifts.
But short runs. |
I assume you're being sarky, as the second and third comments completely contradict the first. |
Nah, it's actually that both are true re ED.
Espace Diamant has a lot of short runs, and with the exception of Bellasta and one of the multiple new-ish chairs up to Bisanne, and one on the Flumet side of Les Saisies (forget the name), the lifts are not detachable six-packs etc. That doesn't mean it's not a pretty good linked set of stations. But if you want thigh-burning reds or blacks you won't find them in the ED. It's excellent for intermediates, the views of Mont Blanc can be stunning, and it's big enough so that you can easily spend a week there.
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@Dr John, no, I was being serious. In my opinion slow lifts and short runs don't necessarily mean a bad ski area.
My trip report for the Espace Diamant is linked above, but to summarise, I found a good variety of skiing and sense of travel, lots of trees for bad weather days, surprisingly reliable snow for its height (statistically better than Megeve and the Portes du Soleil, I believe), beautiful scenery and - above all - very, very quiet slopes away from the Les Saisies part.
I would rate the ski area as better than Megeve (but not as good as Megeve + Les Contained combined).
The short nature of my first reply was because I was (and still am) suspicious that WhiteMan is actually Whitegold (hence the reply in Whitegold style!).
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