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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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Thanks for your updates @Weathercam, We are hoping for enough snow in Serre Che for New Year! It will be our first visit.
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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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We had some snow on and off on Wednesday, we actually have a friend out all this week so have been showing her around, and Wednesday we drove away from the bad weather (low hanging cloud etc) to where it was far sunnier, South of Briancon and Les Fonts valley.
Coming back up the valley to home it was starting to snow and we had a couple of cms overnight, and yesterday we drove up to the Lautaret and there was around 10cm of fresh on the Southern side, enough to tempt some skiers out.
Dogs went crazy and had a great time!
A group of Speed Kiters hiked up but didn't score a decent run between them.
Once back down I took the E-bike up the hill in front of us to just past the start of the Vallons lift below Frejus Village and snow was cica 10cm of fresh enough to force me to turn around, I'm almost tempted to drive up there today and see what the meadows are like and up towards Clot Gauthier.
Even though it's freezing they are not running snow-canon which is really frustrating, no doubt they'll give some greenwashing bollox but the opening weekend is not looking good 
At least for our friend, it's her first time in the mountains, conditions are ideal and we're getting nigh on unbroken sunshine when last week the forecast was grim for the week, and looking forward Briancon and Serre Chevalier is living up to it's claim for 300 days of sunshine 
Actually was just looking at YR.NO
https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/daily-table/2-6559498/France/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te%20d'Azur/Hautes-Alpes/Serre%20Chevalier
for next week and there's currently circa 17cm of snow for Dec 1st which makes sense as I have Orange installing fibre (hopefully) on the morning of the 2nd.
But checking other models and YR are the only ones showing that for the 1st.
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Fri 25-11-22 10:27; edited 3 times in total
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| Weathercam wrote: |
WePowder on their front page announced on the 18th "Chances for a dump in the Southern Alps are rising" but added the caveat "but details are still uncertain".
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WePowder sell the dream. People aren't interested in hearing misery and doom but how there is going to be a mega dump r.s.n.
Wasn't last season a bit shit too? Early days yet but it does tend to make the overall season a bit short when it starts mid December. Even the Lauteret looks a bit sparse, the CAF pensioners will have to wait a bit.
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Serre Chevalier Domaine Skiable announced on their FB yesterday.
Despite all the efforts made by SCV Skiable Domaine for several weeks, conditions are not met to pre-open next weekend, 3-4 Dec
All the teams are continuing to work on the pitch to get the field ready for the season launch on 10 December and bring you quality skiing event.
I messaged them earlier in the week asking why they had not been running the snow-canon on the pistes down into resort.
And they replied saying "it hadn't been cold enough", to which I responded by saying that I live here, and every night for the past ten days it has been below zero, they then said that they were only concentrating on altitude!
I just have a feeling that this season there's going to be a lot more shite such as this, with closed/slow lifts, no pisted pistes etc and a whole load of bollox for excuses, greenwashing as an excuse to not spend and deliver a service to the end consumer.
Their FB page has quite a few people complaining about the steep hike in lift prices and now this.
https://www.facebook.com/serre.chevalier.domaine.skiable
As for the conditions, well we have a cm or two on the terrace this morning and the sparrows are very active,
Have the Webcam cruising around the terrace if you want to see
https://stylealtitude.com/serrechevalierweathercam.html
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We're heading your way end of January, @weathercam. Out of interest, how high up are you? I'm already slightly obsessing over the official webcams, but I think they're all 2,000 metres plus, so hard to see how much snow there is (or isn't) in resort.
The last time I was there was February 2020. The snow was pretty decent, from memory (despite a very worrying rain shower as we arrived in Chantemerle) so I'm hoping for similar conditions this time.
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| The last time I was there was February 2020. The snow was pretty decent, from memory (despite a very worrying rain shower as we arrived in Chantemerle) so I'm hoping for similar conditions this time. |
I certainly wouldn't be hoping for worrying rain... 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thanks WeatherCam Cafe Soleil looks more like it!
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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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| mountainaddict wrote: |
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| The last time I was there was February 2020. The snow was pretty decent, from memory (despite a very worrying rain shower as we arrived in Chantemerle) so I'm hoping for similar conditions this time. |
I certainly wouldn't be hoping for worrying rain... |
Ha, it wasn't raining yellow snow or anything. I'd just never seen it rain in a ski resort before.
Actually, that's not quite true. I did a season in Courchevel in 2004/2005 and one day in April I think I got rained on while I was out skiing. But it was the first time I'd seen that in peak season. To be fair, it was snowing by the time you got to Ratier and the rest of the week was cold and snowy.
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@ChrisP71, the worst place I've ever been for rain had to be Whistler.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| @ChrisP71, the worst place I've ever been for rain had to be Whistler. |
Oh really? I've not skied North America at all, but I thought it was supposed to be a powder paradise?
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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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Whistler town is only 700m and it’s not that far from the sea.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| zzz wrote: |
| Whistler town is only 700m and it’s not that far from the sea. |
Ah, okay. I do remember chatting to someone from that part of Canada who was saying they could ski in the morning and swim in the sea in the same afternoon.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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But in the rain?! Not so jealous now...
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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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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| @ChrisP71, the worst place I've ever been for rain had to be Whistler. |
Toss-up for me between Whistler and Morzine.
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| Lovetoski123 wrote: |
| But in the rain?! Not so jealous now... |
Ha. Yeah, in my mind's eye they were swooshing through fresh powder up on a glacier somewhere and then sitting on a sun-drenched beach. But you're right.
To be fair, if you live in Milton Keynes you can go skiing and swimming in the same day.
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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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@ChrisP71, I can do that in Serre Chevalier, as my apartment has a pool.
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at least Montgenevre is open for you
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And they've managed that with a season pass at half the price of ours!
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Well that's looking better than I feared. Looks like there is at least some snow right down to resort level, and Ratier looks skiable as it is?
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Anyone know how high is this webcam?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Lovetoski123, post above yours states 1,405M ......
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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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Curious if snow in December makes for a good base for the coming months? Versus the previous years where there's been a dump late October/early November.
Booked for a Serre Chevalier workation from February to April 
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@ChrisP71, and others
These are the areas to assess on my webcam to determine snow-cover - that big avalanche barrier next to Club Med is perhaps the best, and the area to the right of that, which is where the XC track is.
We ran up to Monetier today, and they've been busy with the snow-canon up there!
Will post a pic laters.
Also, big Fanfare - we now have broadband, so have upped the resolution
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You know it makes sense.
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| Weathercam wrote: |
@ChrisP71, and others
These are the areas to assess on my webcam to determine snow-cover - that big avalanche barrier next to Club Med is perhaps the best, and the area to the right of that, which is where the XC track is.
We ran up to Monetier today, and they've been busy with the snow-canon up there!
Will post a pic laters.
Also, big Fanfare - we now have broadband, so have upped the resolution |
Trying to get my bearings. Is the furthest arrow on the left the Luc Alphand?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@ChrisP71, we're located on the South Side of La Salle, Villeneuve so we look straight up towards Frejus sector where the Vallons & Cote Chevalier lifts are wth the Casse Du Boeuf piste and chair, lookers left.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@weathercam Ah, right. I'm with you.
On a random note, I Googled the piste map to remind myself where everything was. Is there a new red from Ratier down to Chantemerle that wasn't there a couple of years ago or am I mis-reading the map? Can't make out the name.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@ChrisP71, not sure where you got that piste map, there isn't a red back to Chantemerle, hasn't been since we've been here (8th winter now), also it's not showing the zip wire descent which has been on there for 2 years now and the Rocher Blanc chair in the Briancon sector is still in its old location from 4 years back,so I think the map is well out of date.......
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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And no Vallons lift, so must be ancient!
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@KenX, Foret drag lifts are still there too. I'm thinking early Millenium.
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@Hells Bells, but which millenium? 
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| KenX wrote: |
| @ChrisP71, not sure where you got that piste map, there isn't a red back to Chantemerle, hasn't been since we've been here (8th winter now), also it's not showing the zip wire descent which has been on there for 2 years now and the Rocher Blanc chair in the Briancon sector is still in its old location from 4 years back,so I think the map is well out of date....... |
I thought that might be the case, but it was literally the first one that came up on Google.
I quite liked the idea of something easier than the black but more interesting than the green for coming back to Chantemerle at the end of a long day. 
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@ChrisP71, Downloading on the gondola is more interesting than the green
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Sssssshhh but would seem that various models are gradually agreeing that we might see more than a few cms come Sunday and on into next week
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I don't know SC at all, and I'm coming for most of January. Hope the snow will be awesome. On the red run into Chantemerle, its marked on https://www.serrechevalier.com/skiing/piste-maps.aspx. It's also marked in the 1994 Good Ski Guide, with snowcannon coverage, no less!
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