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| coldrainsnow wrote: |
| Anybody know what the snowline ended up being during the storm today up at Grands Montets? I'm hoping the top half got some decent snow, but it also felt like it came in a bit warmer than expected... |
Was there today. It was all rain unfortunately.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Any idea where to find th best piste skiing tomorrow given the warm weather? It's all slush today esp in the PM
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Cookiemonsterhahaha, lol yup you are correct, had a fun day in the sun at Montets today but the snow was pretty horrendous. Very good actually above 2300m and rain crusted chop and ice below. It did improve around lunchtime in spots as they started to get baked a bit in the March sun. The touring looked great and I bet the snow was really nice even higher up! It was a nice day for Col du Passon for sure.
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Same in Brevent/Flegere! The morning was great but most people were gone after 3pm because of the slush lol thinking of driving to Megeve or Courmayeur tomorrow to take advantage of the unlimited pass. But can't decide on which, any good advice?
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@Cookiemonsterhahaha, Courmayeur probs has better snow and is forecast to be cooler ... I'd think Megeve a washout ...
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @Cookiemonsterhahaha, Courmayeur probs has better snow and is forecast to be cooler ... I'd think Megeve a washout ... |
Thanks! I'll give it a try and report back 
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@Cookiemonsterhahaha, also if you haven't been to the top of the Skyway on the Courma side it's definitely worth a trip, especially if it's included in your unlimited pass. Usually much more chill than Aiguille du Midi and excellent views on a clear day!
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| coldrainsnow wrote: |
| @Cookiemonsterhahaha, also if you haven't been to the top of the Skyway on the Courma side it's definitely worth a trip, especially if it's included in your unlimited pass. Usually much more chill than Aiguille du Midi and excellent views on a clear day! |
Damn saw this too late, already back in Chamonix  but skiing over in Courmayeur was great - a bit slushy for an hour or so after lunch, but conditions before and after was superb. No regrets paying for the tunnel (great discounts too)
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How was it in the valley today?
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@Cookiemonsterhahaha, mild!
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A dusting of new snow in Chamonix Dale this morning
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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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@Peter S, ao I see, Mrs U is at home watching it while I'm viewing a beautiful blue sky in Scotland.
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Hopefully I’ll get to ski tomorrow. Looks like a weather warning for snow for eastern Scotland on Tuesday 
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You know it makes sense.
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Great day up at La Tour. Plenty of snow above 1600m and Everything open except the valley runs. Getting the train to Vallocine is so civilised! They had all the Pomas set up well and Visibility was good all day although the Fohn picked up in the afternoon. The snow remained good and there is still off piste available. Forecast is good again tomorrow.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Lovely sunny day at Les Houches on Tuesday and almost no wind despite a howling Fohn down in Chamonix. Nice spring snow but getting rather narrow in a few places.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Heavy snow all day at Brevant and Flegere. It’s probably put down 20 plus cms. Today was the first time I’ve skied Brevant summit for more than 20 years. It was as dramatic as I remembered it. Good day. More snow tomorrow morning but better visibility would be nice.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Peter S, it's certainly snowing just now! Much explosive activity which we don't hear so much being a bit further away.
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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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9 inches of snow in my garden in Les Chosalets. But sadly the temperature is forecast to be above 10 degrees later today and the freezing level 2700m this evening.
Bonkers weather with the foehn wind dominating the next few days.
Going to skin up the scabby Pierre a Rik for some exercise and maybe a couple of laps in the Forrest if the promised clearing occurs.
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Significantly less than 9 inches of snow in my garden in Les Chosalets on my return at 4:00. Warm.
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Snowing heavily again this morning. Pretty much everything closed except Les Houches, the top of which was excellent in 20cms plus of new snow. Seemed like almost everyone there were British ! The sun came out and it turned into a great day with heavy snow off piste and good on piste skiing.
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Great morning on the Grands Montets. Good visibility, excellent snow and light wind. The new ticket machines work well but don’t seem to offer the option of Carte Neige?
After lunch the Foehn suddenly picked up and hearse and Bochard closed. Only Tabe remained running and kept stopping. A huge queue built up and we opted to walk back up to Planard and ski down Pierre a Ric. It may have taken a while to evacuate everyone off the hill tonight 
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@Peter S, yikes
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Trees down all over, restrictions on certain roads
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@Peter S, we may have passed you in the queue at Tabe! We skied Pierre a Ric as well; but even for those on the gondola it wasn't too bad in the end, looked like pretty much everyone was down by 4.30. Hoping the wind calms down a bit soon...
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@schauspiele,
That’s good to hear 
Very strong Foehn again this morning. Sadly we are heading home but had some very enjoyable skiing overall. Lots of snow above 1900m. Impressed with the transfer buses from Geneva these days. Cheap and efficient.
Eg flixbus and Swiss Tours.
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Some incredible footage from the AdM today. Conditions look absolutely amazing
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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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Anyhone been touring in the Aiguilles Rouges today? We're heading to Cham tonight mainly to see friends (given the forecast....) but it would be nice to get 1 or days skiing in. Probably one day touring in the AR then something off the Midi. Mainly concerned about windslab given the stormy conditions recently.
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I'll answer my own question!
Skinned up to Col du Belvédère today, red hot velcro snow, hard work!
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You know it makes sense.
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@Meltus, I bet!
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| Meltus wrote: |
I'll answer my own question!
Skinned up to Col du Belvédère today, red hot velcro snow, hard work! |
Your user name is appropriate given current temps!
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Poster: A snowHead
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18c tomorrow then 20c in Cham on Sunday and Monday. Then 10c on Tuesday with rain (snow above 2100m).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My skis are put away until Tuesday or Wednesday. Very sorry for any visitors on their holidays over this period.
When I climbed here a lot in the summer in the late 1980’s it was never this hot and the night time (and rarely daytime) zero isotherm nowhere near 4000m as currently forecast.
What a mess.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@HammondR, to be fair, we have some chums over and their comment is only, "well, it's a wee bit slushy" ...
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@HammondR,
A worry is that the cumulative warmth continues ? The last 18 months or more have seen every month warmer than the long term average, at least here in the UK. That has culminated into a very warm winter and Spring. Will that pattern continue this year carrying excess warmth into next winter or will we get some sort of change where there is a period that is actually cooler than the long term average ?
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@Peter S, I'm not convinced you can extrapolate from 2 warm winters?
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Some mates said VB was alright yesterday so I got convinced to head up despite being dubious.
Absolute crust fest, some of the worst snow I've skied. It's a rare day when the moguls before the salle à manger come as a blessed relief
Still, lovely weather nice to be out!
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This past week in Chamonix was amazing. First time here and skied grands montets, le tour, brevent & flegere, courmayeur, and the VB. This place is epic and we will 100% be back. Best skiing of my life.
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Turns out I am a bit of a fibber.
After walking/running yesterday for a couple of hours I was dragged out of bed (embarrassingly late) this morning to go to Courmayeur with the promise of a fine dining. The skiing was not quite the doom fest I had expected but was developing highly adhesive qualities by the 14:00 when we stopped to eat.
Best dinner (I’m from up north) I have ever had there, particularly the pile of lamb chops.
Interestingly my telephone then sent me one of those “on this day last year” photos. Blow me, I was in Courmayeur then too! Only then it was about 10 or more degrees cooler and we made fresh tracks down to Val Veny from Mont Fortin. I suppose next year could be like that again.
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@Meltus, it’s all a bit pot luck isn’t it? We descended the Vallee Noir two days ago on Thursday. It was very good and we were the first (only?) tracks down there.
I wasn’t sure whether or not to post anything about it because you could sense it was changing. We had made the same descent two days earlier on Tuesday after the snowy night and it had been sublime fluff almost to the knees.
It is wind troubles on the Italian side and sun on the French.
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@under a new name,
Yes hopefully not, but i’ll feel better when we get some months that are below average for a change
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