 Poster: A snowHead
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@hammerite, yes I think Canada will soon tell you it’s different from Andorra!!
I think I used to wear longjohns, fluffy sweatpants, and slightly padded salopettes; then a thermal vest, long sleeve top, thick fleece, then my big Couloir jacket. There could have been another layer in there. Habits from Russian winters die hard! I remember skiing in Banff when the instructor was saying it was cold but I didn’t think so. In Andorra at least one thick layer was lost and I got some tight non padded trousers. No surprise why we froze going back to Canada!
I suggest you visit not before mid March 
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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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Typically Heli (jet A) don't operate below about minus 36. Those are "down days". It's fairly rare.
In those sorts of condition the snow isn't great, and the risks of other problems getting serious fast are very high. If someone fell in a creek, or if you lost visibility, that could easily be very bad.
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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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Horror story but unfortunately true. I was skiing in Val d'Isere first week in January in 1992 (give or take a year). In those days the link to Tignes was a pair of triple chairs. The dot matrix display was saying -43° at the top and "do not take children or old people on this lift". I went up it with two friends and it stopped, in the shade, for what felt a very long time, then an air ambulance landed at the top but took off almost immediately. I said to my friends "that cannot be good" and thought little more about it.
That night the chalet rep told us that, that day, a German man had put his two daughters on one chair then got on the next. Both children died of exposure before the top. I don't know, but I suspect, that they were on the lift before us. It was a very sober mood that evening.
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OMG
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and I've just recalled that the Chalet rep's friend's boyfriend had been killed in a skiing accident a couple of days before. A freakishly deadly start to that year.
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