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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Is that the parapointing centre where the funcicular finishes?
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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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@johnE, the funi hasn't been rebuilt after the floods
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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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I was in le touvet just after Christmas and should have visited the resort but hadn't realised the resort hadn't reopened. I think the last time I was there was the beginning of 2024. I think the excellent via ferrata is also closed.
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Home of Coupe Icare, the best exhibition we exhibit at each year. https://www.coupe-icare.org/en/programme2024/ So much more than an exhibition but a festival of free flight and if anyone is in the Grenoble area in mid September it's well worth a visit.
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@Fogliettaz, I now understand where the crazy bird emblem on my friend’s shopping bag came from 
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@Fogliettaz, I now understand where the crazy bird emblem on his shopping bag came from
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@johnE, the funi hasn't been rebuilt after the floods
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Are there any plans in the pipeline to rebuild it David?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I couldn't find out if the Via Ferrata is open, I think it is still closed. I've done the easy route only but not been up there for a while. In the past the team who worked the Funiculaire in the summer worked on the ski lifts in the winter which worked out really nicely. Following the floods the town hall couldn't afford to run the lifts and repair the funi. In theory the funiculaire will reopen in 2027 but in cash strapped France nothing is sure.
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Sun 5-01-25 13:42; edited 1 time in total
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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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@davidof, I thought the funicular was beautiful and hope it is renovated soon.
I’ve done both the easy and hard Ferrata including finishing the easy one in the dark without a head torch. A few years ago I was doing the hard one while my wife and son did the easy one. My wife was delayed a long time while the rescue services helped a woman who had become cragfast up ahead of her.
As to the hardest ferrata I’ve ever done that must the one in the centre of Grenoble. The rock was so polished it was like climbing on ice.
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@johnE, just asked the boy, the VF is closed, it was supposed to reopen in 2023.
The most pressing problem locally is to rebuilt the bridge over the river which was destroyed by altermondialists in 2020 as it still cannot carry anything other that cars and it is an important communications link.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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@davidof, I know I know
Loads of folks I work with live the other side of the bridge so I am well aware it is a massive chore for lots of people... but from a purely selfish point of view the period of time with the bridge only open to bikes/pedestrians was heaven!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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And on the original post it has been great to see St Hilaire running again - big community effort there (again quite a few colleagues involved) - lots from the 'sandal wearing hippy community on the plateau' as someone once referred to it (can't think who?? ).
Would be such a shame to lose those little lifts that give communities easy/cheap access to skiing. (Sambuy/Seythenex being a case in point).
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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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| - lots from the 'sandal wearing hippy community on the plateau' as someone once referred to it (can't think who?? ). |
yes we were wondering about what was causing the low cloud hanging over the village... then we opened the car windows.
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@offpisteskiing, you probably saw that St Nizier opened after 5 years closure.
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@davidof thanks for the report; sad to see and it does seem unlikely to open again soon give the financial state we're in.
Nice to see some of these small community runs coming back to life though 
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