 Poster: A snowHead
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I remember the Hotel Touristica in Courmeyeur - 1991, day menu…salad entre, then vast piles of pasta as a second course before main and dessert….wonderful. They did a great birthday cake for one of our group, at very short notice.
And gone.
Of course the famed Belvedere hotel in the Furka.
Gone.
https://www.uniqhotels.com/hotel-belvedere-rhonegletscher
Restaurant at Bella Lui at Crans Montana - trade devastated by the removal of the big cable car 10 years ago. Struggled to stay open.
Gone? Certainly failing.
Mad Hungarian waiters, solid Alpine fare and fur-garbed elderly pedestrians able to get high - 2,500m - by taking the cable car. Quaint, warm, great view of Mont Blanc from the terrace. I have been there with the snow blasting horizontally past the windows - whilst enjoying a final coffee before a launch into sub zero madness and demanding routes off the back to Zarbona.
Any others? I have posted before the nice vids about ghost resorts in the ‘States.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hotel Eden in Arosa. Free drinks at a 'welcome party' put on by the hoteliers; fantastic music nights, with live bands, on Thursdays and the Kitchen Club disco in the basement. Now, sadly, demolished and the site turned into a swanky 'mountain resort' with very expensive apartments to rent or buy.
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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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I can barely name the mountain restaurants I go to now never mind ones that have gone. I just go to them
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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@holidayloverxx, ..ah the passing of the years…whoosh….
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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 one that sticks in my mind more than any other is the Haflingertraenke in Ellmau. We had such a fantastic meal there and sought it out the following year. It was still there in name, but the original (mainly wooden) building had burned down and been rebuilt. But it just wasn't the same. That would be about 1998 / 1999 or so.....
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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@JHS,
Summer trip?
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@musher, no. Winter.
Stayed at the Chalet Aigner as it was called then by the tour operator, near Steinerner Tisch. It was our first continental ski trip. We were a bit ignorant and on the chalet staff night off it was suggested that we try the Haflingertraenke for a meal.
Really enjoyed it.
Went back next year and it had burned down, I think over the Summer, and either that next Winter or the one after, we went back and had a meal at the rebuilt Haflingertraenke, but it wasn't quite the same
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Guglielmina, 3,300m, above Alagna. Best NY eve parties ever.
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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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@JHS,
I understand now, I wondered what you were doing over that side of the valley 
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| Guglielmina, 3,300m, above Alagna. Best NY eve parties ever. |
Absolute travesty when this burnt down... what a place!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bad news: they stopped selling Beaver Tails at Lake Louise base.
Good news: they opened up two Beaver Tails shops in Banff Main Street.
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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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@shep, a sad day indeed
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You know it makes sense.
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@shep,
Did anyone ever eat in there? Only ever stopped for mid-circuit coffee and the great view!
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FAQ
(when there were T.O. ski-guides). Strangely can't really remember what the food was like... Very non-PC, but those were the days 
