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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@boarder2020, you've literally written in your post that "skiing is like pizza - even when it's bad, it's still pretty damn good!" So why are you stopping skiing this week when it would still be "pretty damn good"?
By the way, I disagree re. pizza, but I respect that people have different opinions about subjective topics. I'm not going to insist that you're wrong or that I'm used to better pizza than you as a result.
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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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@boarder2020,
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maybe my standards are just different
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Clearly. You seem to have a much narrower definition of "good" than I do. Back in the commuting days, pretty much almost any day on snow, was good!!
It's the end of March. B-F is absolutely south facing. What do you expect?  Me I love slushy bumps. And spring snow. It's just a question of getting the timing right.
Any fule knos this.
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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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@boarder2020, I don't know who those people are, I just assumed you were screenshotting your own post. But my broader point is still the same.
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Le Tour had a light dusting this morning but was pretty grim underneath with freeze/thaw cycle pistes. Sharp edges a must. Oof.
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The forecast this week looks amazing. Much cheaper spring prices too. Anyone who enjoys spring skiing will have a great time in the sun. Yes Brevant/ Flegere is soft but there is plenty of snow and most of the off piste between the runs are skiable.
Perhaps the place to post about ski mountaineering is the off piste thread ?
Unfortunately I’m back home now 
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All lifts and Pierre a Ric still open. The good weather looks to last until Saturday.
It’s unusual for the French Alps and northern England to share the same weather, courtesy of the huge Anticyclone just east of the UK.
No doubt the snow will return later in April or May
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Skied Argentiere over the weekend - pistes holding up.pretty well for the conditions, even Pierre a Ric! Touring over to the Rognons glacier was interesting to start off with, refrozen, half tracked sastrugi at the top but turned to lovely chalky snow about halfway down. Off piste on the front side is likewise going through a lot of freeze thaw but really enjoyable by mid afternoon.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Oh my good lord! Doesn't even look busy I thought the powder hordes would be out
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You know it makes sense.
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Ugh! Is that Hearse? The pistes looked quiet on the webcam. This is the problem with Cham imo, when it does snow there is too much competition.
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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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@8611, That's Herse. Bochard closed due avvy risk.
one has to wonder why they thought it sensible to close Flegere and Balme the weekend before Easter
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Poster: A snowHead
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Ah, the Bochard throng is squashed into it too, and the rest of the valley functionally. GM would always be the magnet on powder day. Yes Easter is funny, its a pity they can't be flexible depending on conditions, but I presume they need to manage staffing etc, restaurants in the other areas need to know when they won't be trading. Only obsessives like us are still thinking of skiing this late.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Plenty of obsessives still around and as usual peak snow depth at altitude is only just being reached in late April/early May.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Herse was busy from 10ish onwards. I took an early lunch and by 1 the queue had gone and never returned. Was hard work today, possibly the hardest snow I've skiied in, very heavy with a touch of crust. Got better as the day wore on, but the run down the closed Pierre a Ric finished me.
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@Ski Shagger, huh! Sorry to hear that - I'd kind of expected it would be better.
We were in meetings with builders
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I skied plaine Joux this morning, yesterday late afternoon it would have been an acceptable ski, this morning...if I'm being nice it was shite....transforming mush over crust on hor frost and air.....on rando race skis it required some very base techniques.
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Yup, crustathon. Which was most unexpected. Crusty layer about 4 inches under the top, with a lot of fresh snow underneath. Odd.
Anyway, as we are off elsewhere tomorrow I don’t mind pointing out that the snow in the forest wasn’t crusty after getting into the trees. A bit heavy but much better than elsewhere. As most people seem to be a bit lazy we had the whole place to just 2 of us, so there are lots of fresh tracks to still be had. Of course the part that can be skied with a right turn to the lift was tracked out.
Take your skins and go straight down from the highest point.
Classic upside down touring
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@Idris, you are not selling that.
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Great closing party in LGM yesterday - the usual waterslide fun, zip line, and Brochard sandwiches, with a welcoming complimentary (continental) breakfast to boot up.
The snow held (for early May) despite the scorching heat of the last few weeks.
Alpine skis are now stored away!
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